“…Successful in vitro shoot regeneration from seed-derived or leaf explants has been reported for several Prunus species, such as P. persica (Druart, 1999;Gentile et al, 2002;Hammerschlag et al, 1985;Mante et al, 1989;Pooler and Scorza, 1995;Scorza et al, 1990), P. canescens (Antonelli and Druart, 1989), P. padus (Hammatt, 1993), P. domestica Cossio, 1991, 1994;Yancheva, 1993), P. dulcis (Ainsley et al, 2000;Miguel and Oliveira, 1999;Miguel et al, 1996), P. armeniaca (P erez-Tornero et al, 2000), P. serotina (Espinosa et al, 2006;Hammatt and Grant, 1998), P. avium (Bhagwat and Lane, 2004;Canli and Tian, 2008;Feeney et al, 2007;Hammatt and Grant, 1998;Matt and Jehle, 2005;Tang et al, 2002;Zong et al, 2019), P. cerasus (Mante et al, 1989;Sarropoulou et al, 2012;Song and Sink, 2006;Tang et al, 2002), and several hybrid rootstocks (Hasan et al, 2010;Ochatt et al, 1988;P erez-Jim enez et al, 2012P erez-Jim enez et al, , 2014Pooler and Scorza, 1995;San et al, 2015;Sarropoulou et al, 2012;Zhou et al, 2010). For most cultivars of Prunus species, leaf explants are preferable to seedderived explants for maintaining an identical genetic background of the cultivars because of their heterozygosity ...…”