Citrus fruits (sweet orange, mandarin, pummelo, grapefruit, lemon, lime and assorted
hybrids) are among the most widely grown and economically important fruit tree crops in the …

Key message Disease resistance against xylem-colonizing pathogenic bacteria in crops.
Abstract Plant pathogenic bacteria cause destructive diseases in many commercially …

Background Most modern citrus cultivars have an interspecific origin. As a foundational step
towards deciphering the interspecific genome structures, a reference whole genome …

Background With the increasing availability of EST databases and whole genome
sequences, SNPs have become the most abundant and powerful polymorphic markers …

Sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP), simple sequence repeats (SSR), inter-
simple sequence repeat (ISSR), peroxidase gene polymorphism (POGP), resistant gene …

Background Citrus breeding programs have many limitations associated with the species
biology and physiology, requiring the incorporation of new biotechnological tools to provide …

Introduction Useful germplasm for citrus breeding includes all sexually compatible species
of the former genera Citrus, Clymenia, Eremocitrus, Fortunella, Microcitrus, Oxanthera, and …

Seedlessness, flavor, and color are top priorities for mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco)
cultivar improvement. Given long juvenility, large tree size, and high breeding cost, marker …

Self-incompatibility is an important evolutionary feature in angiosperms and has major
implications for breeding strategies in horticultural crops. In citrus, when coupled with …

Although the citriculture is one of the most important economic activities in Brazil, it is based
on a small number of varieties. This fact has contributed for the vulnerability of the culture …