The origins of fruits, fruit growing, and fruit breeding.
Janick J.
Author Affiliation: Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010, USA.
Plant Breeding Reviews 25 : 255-320
Abstract : This review covers the various technologies (such as species selection, vegetative propagation, pollination and fruit set, irrigation, pruning and training, processing and storage) inherent in the origins of some well-known fruits (date palm, olive, grape, fig, sycomore fig, pomegranate, pome fruits (apple, European pear (Pyrus communis), Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)), stone fruits (almond, apricot, sweet cherry, tart cherry (Prunus cerasus), European plum (Prunus domestica), Asian plum (Prunus salicina), American plum (Prunus americana)), peach, citrus, banana, plantain, mango, persimmon, kiwifruit, strawberry, brambles (Rubus spp.), Vaccinium spp., pineapple, avocado and pawpaw), emphasizing the factors that led to domestication and the genetic changes (e.g. mutation and hybridization) that ensued.