The showy flowers and manageable height of common pear makes it a favorable ornamental landscape tree. Some find the aromatic flowers and sweet edible fruits to be an additional plus; however, a pollinator specimen must be nearby in order for the female tree to produce fruit.
Michael G. Andreu +2 more
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Antibacterial potential of silver-selenium nanocomposites in mitigating fire blight disease in <i>Pyrus communis</i> L. [PDF]
Pyrus communis L. is a vital fruit tree known for its nutritional and economic importance. Thus, for humans, it is an essential element for their balanced nutritional diet, as it contains the major dietary fibers, vitamins, and minerals.
Imran M +8 more
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Antioxidant Properties of Pyrus communis and Pyrus pyrifolia Peel Extracts
With the rise of global health awareness by embracing a healthy lifestyle and natural product consumption, the search for natural antioxidant sources has invited more research performed especially in fruits as a whole product or in its components, especially the ones that are usually discarded/not the mainly consumed component. Pyrus communis and Pyrus
Vinda Maharani Patricia +3 more
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Integration of volatile and non-volatile metabolites and the transcriptome reveals the formation mechanisms of differential aroma compounds between <i>Pyrus communis</i> and <i>Pyrus pyrifolia</i> cultivars. [PDF]
IntroductionAroma compounds are important flavor components in pear fruit. Among cultivated pears, fruits from Pyrus communis (hereafter referred to as P.
Wang J +7 more
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Microsatellite Genotyping and Genetic Diversity of a Greek Pear (<i>Pyrus communis</i> L.) Germplasm Collection. [PDF]
Pear (Pyrus communis L.) is a widely cultivated fruit tree species, valued for its significant economic impact and cultural relevance. The rise in commercial cultivars, characterized by genetic uniformity and high yield, is increasingly displacing ...
Deligiannidou E +8 more
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Update on comparative genome mapping between and [PDF]
Background Comparative genome mapping determines the linkage between homologous genes of related taxa. It has already been used in plants to characterize agronomically important genes in lesser studied species, using information from better studied ...
Jean-Marc Celton +6 more
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The genome sequence of the pear, Pyrus communis L. [PDF]
We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Pyrus communis (the pear; Streptophyta; Magnoliopsida; Rosales; Rosaceae). The genome sequence has a total length of 487.30 megabases. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 17 chromosomal pseudomolecules.
Ruhsam M +9 more
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Self-incompatibility in pears (Pyrus communis L., Pyrus serotina Rehd. and Pyrus ussuriensis) Review
Self-incompatibility system and allele pool of three different pear species, European pear (Pyrus communis), Japanese pear (P. serotina) and Chinese pear (P ussuriensis) are displayed. Several inconsistencies and the absence of the harmonization of three different allele series are revealed in the European pears. By collecting data from several reports
J. Halász, A. Hegedűs
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The bactericidal effect of medicinal plants (Pyrus communis of Lystopadova variety, Arctostaphylos Adans, rhizomes of Potentills Erecta and Bischofite) on Staphylococcus aureus strain 209 and Escherichia coli strain 1257 was studied.
A. M. Khyl, S. B. Peredera
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Traditional varieties and wild pear from Serbia: a link among antioxidant, antidiabetic and cytotoxic activities of fruit peel and flesh [PDF]
This study was aimed at evaluating the antioxidant and antidiabetic activities of methanolic extracts of peel, flesh and mixed peel, and flesh, as well as the cytotoxic activity of mixed peel and flesh extracts obtained from fruits of six traditional ...
Mariana Oalđe Pavlović +6 more
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