The Prunus mume Genome

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gao, Zhihong (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes,
• Subjects: Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Agriculture.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This book reviews the current status of P. mume research, highlighting how the new data coming from the release of the P. mume genomes can advance science and help to solve a number of problems facing the P. mume industry. Prunus mume, which was domesticated in China more than 3,000 years ago as an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Production and Academic importance of Prunus mume
• Origin and Evolution of Prunus mume
• Botanical Descriptions
• Taxonomy and germplasm
• The genome of Prunus mume
• Molecular mapping, genes cloning of & QTLs in Prunus mume
• Systems biology in Japanese apricot
• Small RNAs in Prunus mume
• The chloroplast genome of Prunus mume
• Prunus mume transcriptomics
• Functional genes on bud dormancy and impact on plant breeding
• Molecular and developmental biology: self-incompatibility
• Molecular and developmental biology: pistil abortion
• Reconstruction of ancestral chromosomes of Rosaceae.