Biology:Malus orientalis

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Short description: Species of plant in the genus Malus

Malus orientalis
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Malus
Species:
M. orientalis
Binomial name
Malus orientalis
Uglitzk.[1]
Synonyms[2]

Malus orientalis, the eastern crabapple or Caucasus apple, is a species in the genus Malus found in Bulgaria, Turkey (including East Thrace), the Transcaucasus, and Iran.[2] With its relatively large yellow fruit, it has been consumed by people for millennia, with a string of halved, dried fruit being found in a royal tomb at Ur. Drying the fruit and then rehydrating by boiling cuts the tartness. M. orientalis contributed slightly to the gene pool of domesticated apples, a distant second to Malus sieversii.[3][4]

References

  1. Trudy Sev.-Kavk. Inst. Spets. Tekh. Kult. 1(3): 18 (1932)
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Malus orientalis K.Koch". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:895826-1. 
  3. Spengler, Robert Nicholas (2019). "Origins of the Apple: The Role of Megafaunal Mutualism in the Domestication of Malus and Rosaceous Trees". Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 617. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00617. PMID 31191563. 
  4. Cornille, Amandine; Giraud, Tatiana; Smulders, Marinus J.M.; Roldán-Ruiz, Isabel; Gladieux, Pierre (2014). "The domestication and evolutionary ecology of apples". Trends in Genetics 30 (2): 57–65. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2013.10.002. PMID 24290193. 

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