Meet the editors

Prof. Dr. Ayzin B. Küden is an academic staff member at the Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, Çukurova University, Turkey, where she served as vice dean from 1997 to 1999 and dean from 2005 to 2012. She took part in the establishment of the ZIDEK Association with the assignment of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Deans Council in 2008, and still serves as the association's vice president. She chaired the

TYYÇ Working Group on Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Fisheries, which was published in 2011. Her research interests include conservation of genetic resources in fruit growing, physiological studies, stone fruit breeding, almond and fig selection and cultivation, the use of molecular markers in breeding, the physiology of dormancy in temperate climate fruits, and the effects of climate change on fruit growing. She has made short- and long-term visits and training studies in many countries on these issues. Since 1996, she has been the chairperson of the Temperate Fruits in the Tropics and Subtropics (TFTS) Working Group of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). She became a country member of ISHS in 2018. Dr. Küden has edited and written books and book chapters and published around 200 research articles. She has served as a referee for journals. She has participated in six international symposiums, several workshops, and national meetings. She retired in 2021 but continues to be active in horticultural research and as an executive in two EU Prima projects. Dr. Küden is married and has two children.

Prof. Dr. Ali Küden is an academic staff member at the Çukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, and served as the Director of the Çukurova University Horticultural Research and Application Center between 1997-2017. Ali Küden is a full professor, and pomologist, studying on propagation and training of temperate fruit trees, especially pome and stone fruits, and nursery plants, at the University of Cukurova.

He has been also working for 37 years on the selection and collection of fig and almond germplasm at the University of Cukurova. He has been extending his theoretical and practical knowledge to the growers, nurseries, and private sector in the whole country. He has published more than 170 scientific papers. He is one of the members of the "Temperate Fruits in the Tropics and Subtropics" (TFTS) Working Group of the "International Society for Horticultural Science" (ISHS). In addition, he took on the role in the organization of some scientific meetings of several organizations in and out of the country. He has been involved in several national and EU Prima projects, Prof. Dr. Ali Küden is married and has two children.

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Muhammad Akram*

Varietal Wealth of *Prunus* Species

*Anil Sharma and Gepu Nyorak*

*by Rimpika and DP Sharma*

Parameters *Prunus domestica* L.

**Section 2**

*and Ivan Kulikov*

Genetic Diversity in Almond (*Prunus dulcis*)

Expansion in Cultivating Almond Trees in Egypt *by Mahmoud Sami Abourayya and E.K. Nabila*

Advances in Breeding of Peach, Plum and Apricot

Gene Transfer Procedures for Precision Breeding

*by Sadia Sana, Naheed Akhter, Fozia Amjum, Samreen Gul Khan* 

*by Amit Kumar, Mahendra Kumar Sharma, Tajamul Farooq Wani,* 

Gene Editing in *Prunus* Spp.: The Challenge of Adapting Regular

*by Ricardo Vergara, Felipe Olivares, Blanca Olmedo, Carolina Toro, Marisol Muñoz, Carolina Zúñiga, Roxana Mora, Philippe Plantat, María Miccono, Rodrigo Loyola, Carlos Aguirre and Humberto Prieto*

Stock Influence on Growth, Morphological and Biochemical Leaf

*by Svetlana Motyleva, Galina Upadysheva, Tatyana Tumaeva* 

**Preface XI**

Molecular and Breeding Studies and Germplasm Diversity in Prunus Species **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 59**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 87**

Physiological and Nutritional Studies on Prunus Species **107**

**Chapter 6 109**
