Identification of Sex-Associated Genetic Markers in Pistacia lentiscus var. chia for Early Male Detection.

ABSTRACT: Pistacia lentiscus var. chia is a valuable crop for its high-added-value mastic, a resin with proven pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical properties harvested from the male tree trunk. To achieve the maximum economic benefits from the cultivation of male mastic trees, it is important to develop early sex diagnosis molecular tools for distinguishing the sex type. Thus far, the work on sex identification has focused on Pistacia vera with promising results; however, the low transferability rates of these markers in P. lentiscus necessitates the development of species-specific sex-linked markers for P. lentiscus var. chia. To our knowledge, this is the first report regarding: (i) the development of species-specific novel transcriptome-based markers for

SUBMITTER: Stavridou E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11120708 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature