The delay of flowering time in almond: a review of the combined effect of adaptation, mutation and breeding

P Martínez-Gómez, AS Prudencio, TM Gradziel… - Euphytica, 2017 - Springer
Regulation of flowering time in almond, as in other Prunus species, is a complex process
involving both chill and heat requirements. Following exposure to appropriate consecutive …

Almond breeding

TM Gradziel, P Martínez‐Gómez - Plant breeding reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Almond, a productive and highly nutritious tree nut with easy transportability and long
storability, originated in southeast Asia with subsequent global dissemination to regions …

[HTML][HTML] Physical fruit traits, proximate composition, fatty acid and elemental profiling of almond [Prunus dulcis Mill. DA Webb] kernels from ten genotypes grown in …

M Ibourki, HA Bouzid, L Bijla, R Aissa, T Ainane… - OCL, 2022 - ocl-journal.org
This study was carried out with the aim to evaluate physical fruit traits, proximate
composition, elemental content, and fatty acid profiling of almond kernels from ten …

Codification and description of almond (Prunus dulcis) vegetative and reproductive phenology according to the extended BBCH scale

M El Yamani, A Boussakouran, Y Rharrabti - Scientia Horticulturae, 2019 - Elsevier
Almond is the most important tree nut grown commercially worldwide. It is cultivated for its
edible kernel of high nutritional and economic values. From an agronomic standpoint and …

Reproductive phenology calendar and its correlation with air temperature in five Mediterranean almond [Prunus dulcis (Mill.) DA Webb] cultivars grown in Morocco

M El Yamani, A Boussakouran, Y Rharrabti - Scientia Horticulturae, 2023 - Elsevier
Agro-climatic requirements are of crucial importance for establishment and management of
nut tree orchards. In this work, we investigated timing and duration of key reproductive …

Almond diversity and homozygosity define structure, kinship, inbreeding, and linkage disequilibrium in cultivated germplasm, and reveal genomic associations with …

S Pavan, C Delvento, R Mazzeo, F Ricciardi… - Horticulture …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Almond [Prunus dulcis Miller (DA Webb)] is the main tree nut species worldwide.
Here, genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) was applied to 149 almond cultivars from the ex situ …

Phenotypic diversity and relationships between morphological traits in selected almond (Prunus amygdalus) germplasm

A Khadivi-Khub, A Etemadi-Khah - Agroforestry Systems, 2015 - Springer
Almond production in Iran occupies an important place in worldwide production and is of
considerable importance in terms of providing genetic resources. In this study, 90 almond …

Interactive effects of temperature and genotype on almond (Prunus dulcis L.) pollen germination and tube length

K Sorkheh, R Azimkhani, N Mehri, MH Chaleshtori… - Scientia horticulturae, 2018 - Elsevier
Some imperative developed genotypes of almond ('Tardy Nonpareil','Nonpareil','Sahand','
Rabie','Azar','Shekofeh','Sefied'and 'Mamaei') were utilized in two experiments for 3 years to …

Response of in vitro pollen germination and pollen tube growth of almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.) to temperature, polyamines and polyamine synthesis inhibitor

K Sorkheh, B Shiran, V Rouhi, M Khodambashi… - Biochemical Systematics …, 2011 - Elsevier
Prunus dulcis L.'Mamaei'is grown widely in souhtwest of Iran. It blooms in early spring when
temperatures are still low. Based on our knowledge there are no reports in the literature …

Phenotypic characterisation for growth and nut characteristics revealed the extent of genetic diversity in wild macadamia germplasm

TTP Mai, CM Hardner, MM Alam, RJ Henry, BL Topp - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Macadamia is a recently domesticated Australian native nut crop, and a large proportion of
its wild germplasm is unexploited. Aiming to explore the existing diversity, 247 wild …