Vaccinium

Song, Guo-Qing; Hancock, James F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16057-8_10

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“…Vaccinium is a genus of ∼450 plant species in the family Ericaceae that are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere and also in the mountains of tropical Asia and Central and South America ( Song and Hancock 2011 ). The species within this genus present different levels of ploidy (2 x , 4 x and 6 x ; x = 12), which results in evident morphological differences.…”

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“…Regarding domestication and commercial fruit crop production, the most important species are V. corymbosum (highbush blueberry), V. virgatum (rabbit-eye blueberry), V. angustifolium (lowbush blueberry), V. macrocarpon (cranberry) and V. vitis-idaea (lingonberry). The genus also contains the wild V. myrtillus (bilberry) and a number of other currently non-cultivated Vaccinium species that show great potential as new berry crops ( Song and Hancock 2011 ). Bilberry belongs to the section Myrtillus , and it is a diploid species (2 n = 2 x = 24; Song and Hancock 2011 ).…”

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“…The genus also contains the wild V. myrtillus (bilberry) and a number of other currently non-cultivated Vaccinium species that show great potential as new berry crops ( Song and Hancock 2011 ). Bilberry belongs to the section Myrtillus , and it is a diploid species (2 n = 2 x = 24; Song and Hancock 2011 ). The plant is a deciduous woody dwarf shrub, and it grows typically in pine and spruce heath forests and old peat bogs in Europe, North America, Greenland and northern parts of Asia, including Japan and Greenland ( Nestby et al 2011 ).…”

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Genetic diversity and population structure of an important wild berry crop

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Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) fruits are perceived by consumers to be a health-promoting food, conferred by their high content of phenolic compounds and carotenoids. The health properties of these molecules have raised commercial interest in these berries globally, and caught the attention of breeders. Bilberry is a wild crop and represents an important source of genetic variability for blueberry breeding. Our study presents information related to the genetic diversity and structure of bilberry populations derived from Northern Europe, providing new knowledge for the development of genetic studies and for breeding purposes.

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Genetic diversity and population structure of an important wild berry crop

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“…Cranberries are generally restricted to acidic peat soils found in North American swamps, bogs, and shores of lakes or ponds. The American cranberry is native in North America from Minnesota to east to Newfoundland and Maine, and south to Tennessee and North Carolina (Song & Hancock, ; Vander Kloet, ). V .…”

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Clonal diversity and genetic differentiation revealed by SSR markers in wildVaccinium macrocarponandVaccinium oxycoccos

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American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a perennial, woody plant species, native to North American bogs and wetlands. Cranberries represent one of the few agriculturally important native plants in which wild gene pools are still readily available within the undeveloped wetlands of the northern US and Canada. Earlier studies have reported low genetic variation in V. macrocarpon at the species and population level. However, in this study, we characterised 229 individuals of wild V. macrocarpon and V. oxycoccos (small cranberry) from Wisconsin and 22 accessions using microsatellite markers and observed substantial genetic variation and differentiation within and among populations and species. While V. macrocarpon was analysed using 108 alleles from 11 microsatellite loci revealing 42 unique genotypes, V. oxycoccos was analysed using 156 alleles from eight loci revealing 28 unique genotypes. There were a total of 182 alleles found in both species combined with 156 of those alleles present in V. oxycoccos and 84 alleles found in V. macrocarpon. All eight loci possessed species-specific alleles with V. oxycoccos possessing 98 private alleles versus 26 private alleles found V. macrocarpon, and 58 alleles were found in common between both species. Our data will be valuable not only for future wild cranberry diversity and population genetics research, but for other cranberry breeding and genetics studies.

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“…Pl. 350 1753., derived exclusively from North America, which is found in wild form in marshy regions north USA and Canada (Vander Kloet, 1980;Song and Hancock, 2011). In the ecological aspect, highbush blueberry belongs to the xeromorphic oligotrophs and obligates mycorrhiza species, as well as to plants with incompletely specialized flowering shoots (Pliszkа, 2002).…”

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