The improvement of woody fruit species by traditional plant breeding techniques has several
limitations mainly caused by their high degree of heterozygosity, the length of their juvenile …

Almost 30 years have passed since the first publication reporting regeneration of
transformed peach plants. Nevertheless, the general applicability of genetic transformation …

The effect of meta-Topolin (m T), an aromatic natural cytokinin, on micropropagation and
adventitious shoot regeneration was evaluated on Prunus rootstocks, Torinel (Prunus …

The vacuolar invertase gene PpVIN2 negatively regulates cold resistance in peach fruit by
promoting sucrose degradation. However, the regulatory mechanisms that control PpVIN2 …

One of the major obstacles to the micropropagation of Prunus rootstocks has, up until now,
been the lack of a suitable tissue culture medium. Therefore, reformulation of culture media …

Peach is an economically import fruit crop worldwide, and serves as a model species of the
Rosaceae family as well. However, peach functional genomics studies are severely …

The success of in vitro plant regeneration and the competence of genetic transformation
greatly depends on the genotype of the species of interest. In previous work, we developed …

Transgenic approach is an excellent way for the clarification of gene function, but it is
generally difficult to create transgenic plants for most of the fruit trees including peach. Even …

A major application of RNA interference (RNAi) is envisaged for the production of virus-
resistant transgenic plants. For fruit trees, this remains the most, if not the only, viable option …

The in vitro rooting of three caper (Capparis spinosa L.) selected biotypes, grown in a
commercial orchard on the Sicilian island of Salina (38° 33′ 49” N), was performed using …