Sharka is a disease of fruiting, ornamental and wild Prunus species of great socio-economic relevance that has spread to most Prunusgrowing nations. It is caused by Plum pox virus (PPV), a member of the genus Potyvirus. In recent years, there have been notable advances in our understanding of genome organization and expression, functions of gene products, and pathogenicity and host range determ...

Sweet cherries (Prunus avium L.) contain various phenolic compounds which contribute to total antioxidant activity. Total polyphenols, tannins, flavonoids and anthocyanins, and antioxidant capacity in a fruits of a number of selected sweet cherry genotypes were investigated. Total polyphenols content ranged from 4.12 to 8.34 mg gallic acid equivantents/g dry fruit weight and total tannins conte...

Prunus mume, belonging to the Prunus genus, is an Asian tree, and its common names are Chinese plum and Japanese plum. P. mume are cultivated for fruit production as well as ornamental purposes. In this study, we conducted de novo transcriptome assembly for two selected P. mume cultivars referred to as Takada and Wallyoung (commercially important cultivars for fruit production and ornamental tr...

world apricot (prunus armeniaca l.)  production is increasing steadily due to breeding of new high yielding cultivars in different countries. more recently, breeding programs have been modified according to consumers’ demands and also improvement in resistance to diseases (sharka, monilinia etc.), frost damages, and determination of self-(in) compatibility. in this study, fourteen apricot breed...

morphological and pomological features were studied for two consecutive years in wild apricot seedlings grown under macedonian environmental conditions. the population comprised of 19 seedlings, i.e. genotypes, that showed notable fruit and tree traits. their flowering time and desirable fruit quality features were determined in comparison with ‘hungarian best’. in all genotypes, flowering occu...

several soil samples were taken from western parts of iran. one of the samples col-lected from the rhizosphere of nectarine trees (prunus persica l.) in moghan, ardabil province, contained aprutides guidettii. the species subanguina picridis was recovered from leaf gall of serratula latifolia boiss (asteraceae) in the vicinity of mashhad, khorasan province. although this species showed remarkab...