The Kiwifruit Genome
This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights
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The Kiwifruit Genome
Compendium of Plant Genomes Series editor Chittaranjan Kole Mohanpur, West Bengal India
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11805
Raffaele Testolin Hong-Wen Huang Allan Ross Ferguson •
Editors
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Editors Raffaele Testolin Department of Agriculture University of Udine Udine Italy
Allan Ross Ferguson The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Auckland New Zealand
Hong-Wen Huang South China Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou China
ISSN 2199-4781 Compendium of Plant Genomes ISBN 978-3-319-32272-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32274-2
ISSN 2199-479X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-32274-2
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Preface
The kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis/A. chinensis var. deliciosa complex, with diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid races) is one of the most recently domesticated fruit crops. Native to China, like most taxa of the genus Actinidia, the kiwifruit was introduced to New Zealand as seed in 1904. By the 1930s small orchards were established and in the 1960s its fruit became known to western consumers. Growers of the world’s temperate regions introduced its cultivation to their own countries leading to a rapid expansion of this crop that currently accounts for ca. 200,000 hectares with nearly 3 million tons of fruits produced annually. Kiwifruit is now cultivated also in its homeland, China: indeed, China produces more kiwifruits than any other country. The genome of a A. chinensis var. chinensis genotype was sequenced in 2013 by a Chinese team (Huang et al. Nature Communications 4:2640), following the classical procedures that brought analogous achievements in other c
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