With more than 500 species, most of them occurring in the Neotropical region, the genus Passiflora is of key importance when one considers exploring biodiversity for food and medicinal purposes. Plants from the genus Passiflora produce fruits with economical importance, the passionfruits. Passionfruit breeding programs are leaving their infancy and molecular markers are increasingly being used to assist selection for desirable traits in novel passionfruit commercial varieties. However, the molecular and genetic basis of many of the selected characters affecting passionfruit production and quality cannot be studied in model species such as Arabidopsis thaliana, due to developmental particularities of Passiflora species. Therefore, in this review we comment on the development of genetic, genomic and transcriptomic tools that are recently becoming available for passionfruits.

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基因组学和转录组学方法，用于了解西番莲的生理特性并有助于百香果的育种

西番莲属有500多个物种，其中大多数发生在新热带地区，当人们考虑将生物多样性用于食品和医药目的时，西番莲属至关重要。西番莲属的植物产生的果实具有重要的经济意义，西番莲果。百香果育种计划尚处于起步阶段，越来越多地使用分子标记来辅助选择新的百香果商业品种中所需的性状。但是，由于西番莲的发育特点，无法在诸如拟南芥等模型物种中研究许多影响百香果产量和品质的选定性状的分子和遗传基础。种类。因此，在这篇综述中，我们评论了近来可用于百香果的遗传，基因组和转录组学工具的发展。