Inheritance of Fruit Shape and Seed Size of Watermelon.

Tanaka, Takayuki; Wimol, Satit; Mizutani, Tsukasa

doi:10.2503/jjshs.64.543

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“…The genotype LL SS gives medium size, ll SS gives long, and LL ss or ll ss gives short seeds. The Ti gene was non-allelic to the s and l genes which for tiny seed, was reported by Tanaka et al [16]. Tiny seed from 'Sweet Princess' was dominant over medium-size seed and was controlled by a single dominant gene.…”

Section: Genetic Information For Watermelonmentioning

confidence: 82%

Biotechnological Approaches of Watermelon to Meet the Future Challenges for Next Decades

Sultana¹

2013

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Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] is widely produced and consumed around the world as fleshy fruits. According to consumer and grower preferences, and market conditions (i.e. seedless varieties, good shelf life, etc.), many different cultivars are grown. The largest producer of watermelon in the world is China, is accounted for over 50% production by weight. Increasing in the production of melons is required for a growing population over the next decades. The production of total watermelons approximately doubled in 2009 from 2005 and currently it stabled. For consequences of climate alterations, declining agricultural land and water resources, and assailing microbes and pests, the demands of watermelon fruits are worsen. The watermelons production can be reached at an efficient level with cultivation of elite varieties such as, drought tolerance, disease resistant, high yield, which will be pivotal to success. It is important to improve of watermelon with the traits such as, seedless, good shelf life, excellent flesh color and good shapes that will make them more attractive to consumers. In order to generate elite varieties in watermelon, plant breeding with respect to conventional or molecular breeding methods must be reoriented to meet the global demand for next decades. Reports in here reveal some advanced work related to biotechnology that pivotal for enhancement of watermelon production.

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Section: Genetic Information For Watermelonmentioning

confidence: 82%

Biotechnological Approaches of Watermelon to Meet the Future Challenges for Next Decades

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2013

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“…Therefore, different shapes could be typically attributed to homozygous recessive/dominant as well as heterozygous allelic combinations (reviewed by Tanaka et al 1955). In some cases, the establishment of linkage between genetic and morphology is more complicated.…”

Section: Shape and Geneticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The domestication of wild varieties into actual cultured forms can result from the mutation and subsequent selection of single loci as in the case of pepper (Capsicum spp. ;Peterson 1959;Zygier et al 2005), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus; Tanaka et al 1955), rice (Oryza sativa; Zheng et al 2007) and different tomato strains (Alpert et al 1995;Ku et al 1999;Van der Knaap and Tanksley 2003;Xiao et al 2008).…”

Section: Shape and Geneticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Description of agricultural product shape is often necessary in research fields for a range of different purposes, including investigating heritability shape traits (Tanaka et al 1955;Peterson 1959;Currie et al 2000;White et al 2000;Nunome et al 2001;van der Knaap and Tanksley 2003;Zygier et al 2005;Brewer et al 2007;Menesatti et al 2008;Costa et al 2009a;Antonucci et al 2011), cultivar descriptions for plant variety or cultivar patents (Beyer et al 2002), evaluation of consumer decision performance (Jahns et al 2001), physical key parameters in packaging and shipping (Sadrnia et al 2007;Pallottino et al 2010), determining misshaped fruit in a cultivar, etc. Despite all these applications, to date, shape is still the object of subjective classification in the majority of cases.…”

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Shape Analysis of Agricultural Products: A Review of Recent Research Advances and Potential Application to Computer Vision

Costa

Antonucci

Pallottino

et al. 2011

Food Bioprocess Technol

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The appearance of agricultural products deeply conditions their marketing. Appearance is normally evaluated by considering size, shape, form, colour, freshness condition and finally the absence of visual defects. Among these features, the shape plays a crucial role. Description of agricultural product shape is often necessary in research fields for a range of different purposes, including the investigation of shape traits heritability for cultivar descriptions, plant variety or cultivar patents and evaluation of consumer decision performance. This review reports the main applications of shape analysis on agricultural products such as relationships between shape and: (1) genetic; (2) conformity and condition ratios; (3) products characterization; (4) product sorting and finally, (5) clone selection. Shape can be a protagonist of evaluation criteria only if an appreciable level of image shape processing and automation and data are treated with solid multivariate statistic. In this context, image-processing algorithms have been increasingly developed in the last decade in order to objectively measure the external features of agricultural products. Grading and sorting of agricultural products using machine vision in conjunction with pattern recognition techniques offers many advantages over the conventional optical or mechanical sorting devices. With this aims, we propose a new automated shape processing system which could be useful for both scientific and industrial purposes, forming the bases of a common language for the scientific community. We applied such a processing scheme to morphologically discriminate nuts fruit of different species. Operative Matlab codes for shape analysis are reported.

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“…The fruit set was evaluated after the June fruit drop according to a 1 to 9 grading system (1= no fruits, 9 = maximum set). From measured fruit dimensions, the fruit shape index was calculated based on a methodology by Tanaka et al (1995) to determine the effect of phytoplasma on the fruit deformation. Finally, the soluble solids content (in %) of fruits was determined using KRÜSS AR4D refractometer.…”

Section: Biological Materialsmentioning

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The Effect of Phytoplasma Disease Caused by ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum’ on the Phenological and Pomological Traits in Apricot Trees

Nečas

Kiss

Eichmeier

et al. 2018

Not Bot Horti Agrobo

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Abstract'Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum', the causal agent of European stone fruit yellows (ESFY), is one of the most important pathogens causing considerable economic losses in stone fruit orchards. This study evaluated trees infected and noninfected by phytoplasma ESFY of 16 apricot varieties grown in an orchard in Lednice (Czech Republic) between the years 2008-2014. Pomological traits, phenophases, pollen germination and seed viability were analysed as well as the presence of 'Ca. P. prunorum' in pollen, flower organs, fruit flesh, immature seeds and seedlings by nested PCR. One of the most detrimental impacts was the decreased fruit set of infected trees which occurred in 12 out of 16 studied varieties reaching an average fruit set decrease of 16.1%. Pollen germination rates also suffered, showing an average decrease by 11.78% in infected trees. In the analysis of some traits, overall significant differences were observed between the infected and noninfected trees. However, for all analysed traits in different varieties, both positive and negative influences of phytoplasma ESFY were observed. The presence of 'Ca. P. prunorum' in infected trees was confirmed in flower parts (only in peduncle in 70.2% of cases) and fruit parts (immature fruit flesh in 42.0% and milky kernels in 26.2% of cases), however, neither in seedlings nor in pollen.

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Inheritance of Fruit Shape and Seed Size of Watermelon.

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Biotechnological Approaches of Watermelon to Meet the Future Challenges for Next Decades

Biotechnological Approaches of Watermelon to Meet the Future Challenges for Next Decades

Shape Analysis of Agricultural Products: A Review of Recent Research Advances and Potential Application to Computer Vision

The Effect of Phytoplasma Disease Caused by ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum’ on the Phenological and Pomological Traits in Apricot Trees

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