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Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) is native to East Asia and has been cultivated for centuries in China, Korea, and Japan (Tao and Sugiura 1992a). Recently, it has been gaining in popularity throughout the world and its culture is spreading to outside the temperate parts of Asia including Italy, Australia, USA, Brazil, Israel, and New Zealand. In spite of recent worldwide interest and requirements of improved fruit quality in this species, conventional crossbreeding is limited because among the hundreds of native cultivars, there are not many strains carrying hermaphrodite and/or male flowers. Furthermore, as is often the case with woody plants, the long juvenile period, large plant size, and high heterozygosity of Japanese persimmon make rapid breeding progress difficult. Therefore the use of somatic hybrids and, in particular, protoclonal variants will have a great impact on Japanese persimmon breeding programs.
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Tamura, M., Tao, R., Sugiura, A. (1995). Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Diospyros kaki L. (Japanese Persimmon). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering VI. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57840-3_5
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