Malus Genome sequencing. Malus

Ornamental crabapple is an excellent ornamental tree species of Rosaceae, which integrates ornamental flowers, leaves, and fruits. The length of the fruit setting period has a great influence on the ornamental value of its fruit. It is of great significance to explore the internal causes of the abscission of Malus spp. those five ornamental crabapple varieties were used as test materials. To reveal the mechanism of ornamental crabapple fruit abscission, and provide a more theoretical basis for the breeding of ornamental crabapple varieties and further improve the ornamental value.