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The Kiwifruit Genome

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Although dioecy in Actinidia creates difficulties for plant breeders, such as determining the breeding values for fruit characters of males, there is a counterbalancing huge fecundity, with multi-carpellate, multi-ovulate pistillate flowers, which, when adequately pollinized, result in fruits containing numerous seeds. A single cross can generate a very large family. It would appear that, with dioecy, polyploidy and reticulate evolution, Actinidia has successfully increased resource availability to each gender and, with obligate outcrossing, has maintained extensive genetic diversity. Its adaptation to various natural habitats and its mode of growth have allowed the genus to make its fleshy, flavoursome fruits available to many seed dispersers, while its numerous seeds ensured colonization of wider habitats. The challenge for breeders, geneticists and horticulturalists is to domesticate germplasm recently propagated from wild populations and move selection away from that provided by abiotic and biotic agents in natural habitats towards selection of cultivars producing products widely appreciated and valued by human consumers. Here we review the current state of knowledge about the reproductive biology of the genus Actinidia, in particular of A. chinensis var. chinensis and A. chinensis var. deliciosa, collectively known as kiwifruit.

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Fraser, L.G., McNeilage, M.A. (2016). Reproductive Biology. In: Testolin, R., Huang, HW., Ferguson, A. (eds) The Kiwifruit Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32274-2_6

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