The western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens Curran (Diptera: Tephritidae), is an endemic herbivore of bitter cherry, Prunus emarginata (Douglas ex Hooker) Eaton, but ∼100 years ago established on earlier-fruiting domesticated sweet cherry, Prunus avium (L.) L. Here, we determined if eclosion times of adult R. indifferens from sweet and bitter cherry differ according to the phenology of...

Despite the agronomical importance and high synteny with other Prunus species, breeding improvements for cherry have been slow compared to other temperate fruits, such as apple or peach. However, the recent release of the peach genome v1.0 by the International Peach Genome Initiative and the sequencing of cherry accessions to identify Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) provide an excellent ...

Chinese cherry [Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) G.Don] is a commercially important fruit crop in China, but its structure patterns and domestication history remain imprecise. To address these questions, we estimated the genetic structure and domestication history of Chinese cherry using 19 nuclear microsatellite markers and 650 representative accessions (including 118 Cerasus relatives) selected...

Wild cherry (Prunus avium L, syn. Cerasus L. Moench.) is a widely spread forest tree that has ecological and economical importance. However, the genetic diversity of this species threatened for many reasons. Therefore, breeding conservation program should be established in order to minimise loss diversity. In study, we aimed understand structure 440 individual wild cherries sampled from 22 diff...

In this review work it has been demonstrated that the seeds of pomegranate (Punica granatum), grapes (Vitis vinifera L.), blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus), papaya (Carica papaya), rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus), flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum), guava (Psidium guajava), oregano (Origanum vulgare), cherry (Prunus subg. Cerasus) and passion fruit (Passiflora edulis), which are residues containing oi...

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...

BACKGROUND Traditional alcoholic beverages (TABs) have only received marginal attention from researchers and ethnobotanists so far, especially in Italy. This work is focused on plant-based TABs in the Alta Valle del Reno, a mountainous area on the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna regions. The aims of our study were to document local knowledge about TABs and to analyze and discuss the d...