The Ussurian pear is the most important cultivated pear in the northern part of China. Cultivated Ussurian pears are considered to have derived from Pyrus ussuriensis Maxim. which is native to the northeast of China. In Japan, two varieties of P. ussuriensis, P. ussuriensis var. aromatica and var. hondoensis are native to the northern area and the central area of the main island respectively. I...

Some local cultivars and wilds of Iwateyamanashi (Pyrus ussuriensis var. aromatica) that grows wild in Northern Tohoku, Japan have good aromatic fruit. Iwateyamanashi may be valuable germplasms as a donor of odor compounds in breeding of Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia), because almost all Japanese pear cultivars have faint odor. Fruits odors from a local cultivar 'Sanenashi', a wild accession (...

around the world for these traits. Peach is particularly amenable for forward genetic studies because it has a small genome (approximately half the size of the P. trichocarpa genome) with little duplication history, is self-fertile, has a generation time as short as 2–4 yr and significant genomic resources are available (Shulaev et al., 2008). Recent work has demonstrated the utility of peach t...

BACKGROUND Pear (Pyrus spp.) is a popular fruit that is commercially cultivated in most temperate regions. In fruits, sugar metabolism and accumulation are important factors for fruit organoleptic quality. Post-harvest ripening is a special feature of 'Red Clapp's Favorite'. RESULTS In this study, transcriptome sequencing based on the Illumina platform generated 23.8 - 35.8 million unigenes o...

BACKGROUND This paper is an ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants gathered for consumption from the end of the 18th century to the present day, within the present borders of Poland. METHODS 42 ethnographic and botanical sources documenting the culinary use of wild plants were analyzed. RESULTS The use of 112 species (3.7% of the flora) has been recorded. Only half of them have been us...