Crossability between wild (Malus sylvestris) and Cultivated (M. x domestica) apples

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 127-130

  Larsen, A S ^a   Jensen, M ^b   Kjaer E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conservation; Crossability; Hybridization; Malus sylvestris; Malus x domestica

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CROSSABILITY; FRUIT SETS; GENETIC RESOURCES; HYBRIDIZATION; MALUS SYLVESTRIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; SEED PRODUCTION; FRUIT TREES; GERMINATION PERCENTAGES; HYBRIDISATION; MALUS XDOMESTICA; POST-ZYGOTIC BARRIER;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; FRUIT JUICES; ORCHARDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

FRUITS;

MALUS SYLVESTRIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 51849126424     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. BEEKMAN, M. and F. L. W. RATNIEKS (2000): Long range foraging by the honey-bee, Apis mellifera L, Funct. Ecol. 14, 490-496.
2. BOAVIDA, L. C., J. P. SILVA and J. A. FEIJÓ (2001): Sexual reproduction in the cork oak (Quercus suber L). II. Crossing intra- and interspecific barriers. Sex. Plant Reprod. 14, 143-152.
3. COART, E., X. VEKEMANS, M. J. M. SMULDERS, I. WAGNER, J. HUYLENBROECK, E. BOCKSTAELE and I. ROLDÁN-RUIZ (2003): Genetic variation in the endangered wild apple (Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill.) in Belgium as revealed by amplified fragment length polymorphism and microsatellite markers, Mol. Ecol. 12, 845-857.
4. CRESSWELL, J. E. (1997): Spatial heterogeneity, pollinator behaviour and pollinator-mediated gene flow: bumblebee movements in variously aggregated rows of oil-seed rape, Oikos 78, 546-556.
5. ELLSTRAND, N. C. (2003): Current knowledge of gene flow in plants: implications for transgene flow, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 358, 1163-1170.
6. GARCIA, C., J. M. ARROYO, J. A. GODOY and P. JORDANO (2005): Mating patterns, pollen dispersal, and the ecological maternal neighbourhood in a Prunus mahaleb L. population, Mol. Ecol. 14, 1821-1830.
7. GRAUDAL, L., E. D. KJÆR and S. CANGER (1995): A systematic approach to conservation of genetic resources of trees and shrubs in Denmark. For. Ecol. Manage. 73, 117-134.
8. INTERNATIONAL SEED TESTING ASSOCIATION (1999): International rules for seed testing, Seed Sci. Technol., 27.
9. KORBAN, S. S. (1986): Interspecific hybridization in Malus. Hortscience 21, 41-48.
10. LARSEN, A. S., C. B. ASMUSSEN, D. C. OLRIK, E. COART and E. D. KJÆR (2006): Hybridization and genetic variation in Danish populations of European crab apple (Malus sylvestris), Tree Genet. Genom. 2, 86-97.
11. NETTANCOURT, D. (2001): Incompatibility and incongruity in wild and cultivated plants, 2 edn, Springer, Berlin.
12. OSBORNE, J. L., S. J. CLARK, R. J. MORRIS, I. H. WILLIAMS, J. R. RILEY, A. D. SMITH, D. R. REYNOLDS and A. S. EDWARDS (1999): A landscape-scale study of bumble bee foraging range and constancy, using harmonic radar, J. Appl. Ecol. 36, 519-533.
13. nd ed., W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 859p.
14. STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I. and A. KUHN (2003): Honeybee foraging in differentially structured landscapes, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 270, 569-575.
15. STEPHAN, B. R., I. WAGNER and J. KLEINSCHMIT (2003): EUFORGEN Technical guidelines for genetic conservation and use for wild apple and pear (Malus sylvestris and Pyrus pyraster), International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy.
16. WAGNER, I. (1996): Zusammenstellung morphologischer Merkmale und ihrer Ausprägungen zur Unterscheidung von Wild- und Kulturformen des Apfel- (Malus) und des Birnbaumes (Pyrus). Mitt. Dtsch. Dendr. Ges. 82, 87-108.
17. WAGNER, I., H. P. SCHMITT, W. D. MAURER and U. TABEL (2004): Isozyme polymorphism and genetic structure of Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill, native in western areas of Germany with respect to Malus x domestica Borkh., Acta Hort. 663, 545-550.