Molecular Breeding and Economic Importance of Pomegranate:A Review
作者单位：Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute
会议名称：《第四届中国石榴博览会暨第十届全国石榴生产与科研研讨会、首届国际石榴文化数字云博览会》
会议日期：2022年
学科分类：09[农学] 0902[农学-园艺学] 090201[农学-果树学]
关 键 词：Pomegranate Seed hardness Molecular breeding Marker Genetic diversity
摘 要：Pomegranate is native to central Asia,which is an important fruit contributing to poverty alleviation and rural *** strategies followed by most of the breeders for breeding new varieties are based on the controlled crosses to select those individuals with desired traits of *** is one of the successful approaches in the production of most of the crop varieties available *** the fact,this process of breeding in fruit crops is time-consuming and costly due to the time required by the fruit crop to enter into the fruiting *** development in science as sequencing and mapping techniques are the new scientific tools for breeding in fruit *** breeding strategies have mostly focused on the introduction to the high yield and/or resistance-related traits to *** traits in pomegranates are the basic criteria for the consumers in selecting quality *** of the major traits representing the quality of the products are fruit color,seed hardness,aril color,taste,*** edibility of the fruits of pomegranate depends on the fleshy outer seed coats and hard or soft inner seed *** is the key factor for the preferences by the consumers to particular *** consumers’ preference towards softseeded pomegranates has accelerated the breeding of new soft-seeded pomegranate ***,the seed coat development in pomegranate has not yet been *** hardness is an important trait in pomegranate that determines the edibility and quality of the *** is a major factor for the economic value of the fruit as soft seeded fruits fetch a higher price in the market compared to the hard seeded ones.