The conventional breeding of fruits and fruit trees has led to the improvement of consumer-
driven traits such as fruit size, yield, nutritional properties, aroma and taste, as well as the …

In the last decade, successful cases of managing plant virus diseases using the transgenic
approach have been reported, with the best known example being the Papaya ringspot virus …

Beyond their own commercial potential, highland papayas (Vasconcellea spp.) bear genes
for resistances against important diseases, cold hardiness, and monoecy, which are absent …

Wild plant species related to crop plants form an important source of useful traits for fruit
quality improvement and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Wide hybridization involving …

Biotechnology of fruit and nut crops: <italic toggle='yes'>Carica papaya</italic> papaya. Page 1
1. Introduction 1.1. Botany and history The papaya most probably originated along the …

Molecular markers have been applied to papaya crop improvement for two decades. They
were initially used to study the genetic diversity among the Caricaceae, containing the …

Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is cultivated in all continents producing 12.41 million tonnes from
434,785 ha, but major share of its production comes from Asia, Central America and Africa …

Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV-P) is the most widespread and destructive disease of papaya
(Carica papaya). Successful introgression of a PRSV-P resistance gene (s) into the papaya …

In this study, we confirmed that Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis resists Papaya leaf
distortion mosaic virus (PLDMV), and used it to produce intergeneric hybrids with Carica …

Despite availability of transgenic papaya that are resistant to Papaya ringspot virus form P
(PRSV-P), the virus continues to spread and be the major disease of Carica papaya …