New plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) aim to overcome traditional breeding limits for fruit
tree species, in order to obtain new varieties with improved organoleptic traits and …

Somatic hybridization holds great potential in citrus improvement by circumventing several
biological barriers such as nucellar polyembryony, long juvenility and pollen/ovule sterility …

The prevalence of sour orange rootstock in the southern and eastern part of the
Mediterranean Basin is presently threatened by the spread of Citrus Tristeza Virus (CTV) …

Background G1+ HBP is a male sterile cybrid line with nuclear genome from Hirado Buntan
pummelo (C. grandis Osbeck)(HBP) and mitochondrial genome from “Guoqing No. 1”(G1 …

Citrus exocortis viroid (CEV) is widespread in citrus production areas where trifoliate orange
[Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf.] is used as rootstock. Citrus reticulata Blanco cv. Red tangerine, a …

Polyploidy appears to have played a limited role in citrus germplasm evolution. However,
today, ploidy manipulation is an important component of citrus breeding strategies. For …

Citrus wild relatives are an untapped germplasm reservoir, which possesses many elite
resistance traits. Genetic introgression into Citrus by conventional methods has been greatly …

Somatic hybridization experiments in Citrus that involve the fusion of protoplasts of one
parent isolated from either nucellus-derived embryogenic callus or suspension cultures with …

Somatic hybridization offers the possibility of manipulating chloroplast and mitochondrial
genomes and evaluating their role on cultivar qualities in citrus. Numerous associations …

Volatile compounds were extracted by a pentane/ether (1: 1) mixture from the leaves of
seven citrus somatic tetraploid hybrids sharing mandarin as their common parent and …