Multiple Lines of Evidence for Independent Origin of Wild and Cultivated Flowering Cherry (Prunus yedoensis).

ABSTRACT: As with many other ornamental and cultivated plants that have been under human selection and cultivation for a long time, it has been a major challenge to trace back the complex evolutionary history of flowering cherry, Prunus yedoensis. This challenge has been further amplified by great morphological similarities, little molecular divergence, frequent natural and artificial hybridization, and poor documentation of breeding history among cultivated and wild flowering cherries. The origin and taxonomic distinction between wild P. yedoensis from Jeju Island, Korea, and one of the most popular cultivated flowering cherries, P. × yedoensis "Somei-yoshino" has been a controversy for the past few decades. We sampled many areas extensively, and using four different mol

SUBMITTER: Cho MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6930925 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature