almonds belong to prunus genus, which is related to rosaceae family. it has close relatives with different species of stoned fruits. one of the main reasons for the long period of seed germination in prunus is compound dormancy, such as the external seed cover as physical dormancy and embryo dormancy causes physiological dormancy. seed stratification and treatments with various hormones are use...

abstract sour cherry (prunus cerasus l.) is an important iranian-native fruit, considered highly perishable commodity which cannot be stored for any length of time. on this study, effect of three gas compositions (ambient, 5% o2+5% co2+90% n2 and 10% o2+15% co2+75% n2) and two storage temperatures (0 and 5 °c) on two sour cherry cultivars namely erdy jubileum and erdy botermo was studied in a c...

By applying multivariate statistical analysis, this research aimed to estimate the heritability and find relationships between the vegetative and reproductive characteristics of Prunus scoparia and Prunus elaeagnifolia. Twenty genotypes of each species were selected randomly from cultivated populations and twenty-two traits including the tree, leaf, flower, nut and kernel attributes were measur...

Plum pox or sharka, a viral disease caused by Plum pox virus (PPV), severely affects the production of Prunus species in Europe. The first evidence of sharka was reported in Iran in 2000 . Due to the economic impact of this disease on crop production, recent advances in the term of  biology, epidemiology, and disease management are provided in this paper to assure awareness among growers and pr...

Prunus fruit trees of the Rosaceae family exhibit S-RNase-based gametophytic self-incompatibility (GSI), which enables pistils to reject self-pollen by suppressing pollen tube elongation. In other plant species with GSI, it has been shown that this suppression consists two steps: first, slowing down elongation in middle part style and second, complete arrest involving programmed cell death. To ...

the distribution of phytophthora parsiana a high-temperature tolerant newly described species was studied in southern iran and examined its host range in woody perennial plant species in greenhouse condition under high inoculum potential. among different plant species examined, almonds were highly susceptible by different isolates. from 24 woody plants inoculated, the disease severity in descen...