Tree peonies native to China have become an internationalized ornamental plant and are widely cultivated in many countries in Asia, America, Europe and Australia. Breeding starting from domestication of wild plants through selection of bud mutations and seedlings to hybridization has been done for about 1500 years. At present a few thousand cultivars are cultivated globally in gardens or propag...

Discrimination between disomic and tetrasomic inheritance aids in determining whether tetraploids originated by allotetraploidy or autotetraploidy, respectively. Past assessments of inheritance in tetraploids have used analyses whereby each inheritance hypothesis is tested independently. I present a Bayesian analysis that is appropriate for discriminating among several inheritance hypotheses an...

Stability of breadmaking quality of four Croatian bread winter wheat cultivars was investigated using rheological traits from the farinogram (dough development time, stability, degree of so�ening, water absorption, Hankoczy quality number) and the extensogram (extensibility, maximum resistance, ratio of resistance to extensibility, energy) and the indirect traits (protein content, wet gluten co...

In this study, we characterized the miR482 family in cotton using existing small RNA datasets and the recently released draft genome sequence of Gossypium raimondii, a diploid cotton species whose progenitor is the putative contributor of the Dt (representing the D genome of tetraploid) genome of the cultivated tetraploid cotton species G. hirsutum and G. barbadense. Of the three ghr-miR482 mem...

Sugarcane commercial cultivar SP80-3280 has been used as a model for genomic analyses in Brazil. Here we present a draft genome sequence employing Illumina TruSeq Synthetic Long reads. The dataset is available from NCBI BioProject with accession . PRJNA272769 This article is included in the Global Open Data for gateway. Agriculture and Nutrition This article is included in the Data: Use and Reu...

The reproduction of isolates of five plant-parasitic nematode species on the winter rapeseed cultivars Bridger, Gorzanski, H-47, Lindora, and Viking was evaluated. Each cultivar was a good host for Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus, Meloidogyne hapla, and M. incognita, All rapeseed cultivars were poor hosts for Pratylenchus scribneri, in comparison with a susceptible reference host. Heterodera gly...

BACKGROUND Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng) is one of the most important medicinal plants in the Orient. Among nine cultivars of P. ginseng, Chunpoong commands a much greater market value and has been planted widely in Korea. Chunpoong has superior quality "Chunsam" (1st grade ginseng) when made into red ginseng. METHODS A rapid and reliable method for discriminating the Chunpoong cultivar was ...

Many important high quality cultivars are becoming increasingly susceptible to the scab pathogen. Two such cultivars, 'Stuart' and 'Desirable', comprise over one half of Georgia's total pecan acreage. This increasing susceptibility has often been attributed to the increased prevalence of once rare races of scab that are able to infect these cultivars. Demaree and Cole (1929) were the first to d...

Herein, we report on the results of solventand sorbent-free HS-GC-MS (headspace – gas chromatography – mass spectrometry) analysis of the headspace volatiles (HSVs) of fruits of cultivated melon (Cucumis melo L. cultivar “ananas dinja” [pineapple melon]) and pear (Pyrus communis L. cultivar “Julska lepotica” [the beauty of July]), as well as of underground parts of carrot (Daucus carota L. cult...

Genetic engineering offers great potential for developing peanut cultivars resistant to a broad spectrum of pathogens that pose a recurring threat to peanut health. In an effort to improve the disease resistance of peanuts, three transgenic peanut lines were developed. Somatic embryos of the peanut cultivar Okrun were transformed by inserting a chitinase gene from rice and/or a β-1-3-glucanase ...