1029. PRUNUS MUME: Rosaceae

Moore, Richard M.; Yoneda, Kazunari

doi:10.1111/curt.12455

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“…In the Western countries, P. mume is still widely and often erroneously referred to as Chinese Plum or Japanese Apricot. Many Japanese varieties became available in European countries after the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1878 4 , although the original Japanese names of the cultivars were not maintained, resulting in their spread with new denominations, such as ‘Alba’, 'Alboplena', ‘Pendula’ or ‘Alphandii’; many varieties available in Europe and US are therefore likely synonymous with the true Japanese and Chinese counterparts.…”

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Mutations overlying the miR172 target site of TOE-type genes are prime candidate variants for the double-flower trait in mei

Gattolin,

Calastri,

Tassone

et al. 2024

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Mutations affecting flower shape in many plants have been favored by human selection, and various fruit trees are also grown for ornamental purposes. Mei (Prunus mume) is a dual purpose tree originated in China well known in the Western world for its generous early blooms, often bearing double flowers. Building on the knowledge of its genomic location, a candidate gene approach was used to identify a 49 bp deletion encompassing the miR172 target site of the euAP2 gene pmTOE (PmuVar_Ch1_3490) as a prime variant linked to flower doubleness. Searching within a large dataset of genome sequencing data from Eastern germplasm collections demonstrated a tight variant-trait association, further confirmed in a panel of commercial and non-commercial varieties available in Italy. Moreover, two SNP mutations in the miR172 target site of pmPET (PmuVar_Ch1_1333) were identified in some double flower accessions. The mei orthologue of PETALOSA genes already found responsible for the phenotype in other plants suggests that independent variants may have been selected throughout mei domestication history.

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