Ziziphus Mill. or Zizyphus Mill. (jujube) is the most important genus, of approximately 170 species, in the family Rhamnaceae. It plays an increasingly important role in the economic and ecological construction in arid and saline regions and is getting more and more attention of related...

Fruit pits are composed of the seed and the hard woody substance (or stone). Consumers want to bite into a perfectly ripe fruit without having to worry about how to get rid of the hidden pit. That is why consumers and processors both regard the stone to be an annoyance. As fruit trees are...

Polyploidization has played a major role in plant evolution and can alter plant morphology, phenology, and ecology within only one or a few generations. Ziziphus species are economically as well as nutritionally important fruit-yielding trees. Identification of genotypes with unique traits or those ...

Research work on the genetic diversity within Pakistani and Chinese Ziziphus species is limited, and to date, no single report on the application of DNA barcoding attempt for identification of Ziziphus species is available in literature. Therefore, the current study was designed to assess diversity ...

L-gulono-1,4-lactone oxidase (GULO, EC:1.1.3.8) is one member of the vanillyl alcohol oxidase (VAO) superfamily and belongs to aldonolactone oxidoreductase. GULO was identified as the last step of AsA biosynthetic pathway in animals, whereas L-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase (GLDH) played this...

Artificially induced polyploidization is one of the most effective techniques for improving the biological properties and creating new cultivars of fruit trees. Up to now, systematic research on the autotetraploid of sour jujube (Ziziphus acidojujuba Cheng et Liu) has not been reported. 'Zhuguang'...

Endogenous hormones can promote fruit growth and development. In this experiment, Ziziphus jujuba 'Dongzao' and 'Linyilizao' were selected as experimental materials, collected regularly from the fruit setting stage to study the changes of morphological indexes and endogenous hormone contents during ...

Ziziphus Mill. is an economically important genus of the family Rhamnaceae having nearly 170 species with worldwide distribution whereas this genus is represented by 6 species (Z. rugosa Lam., Z. mauritiana Lam., Z. nummularia Burm.f., Z. spina-christi (L.) Desf., Z. oxyphylla Royle., and Z. jujuba ...

Jujube is considered a new fruit species for Romania and other European countries and the propagation and testing of new cultivars grafted on different rootstock is an important topic. In this study, we tested two local jujube rootstocks, 'Jurilovca' and 'Ostrov', and one local selection of...

Ziziphus jujuba 'Yuhong', a new male-sterile mid-late ripening Chinese jujube cultivar for table with high resistance to fruit cracking and fruit shrinking disease, was found and selected from Mancheng County, Hebei Province. Its fruits were cylinder with average weight of 17.04 g. The flesh is...