Chemical Composition and Crystal Morphology of Epicuticular Wax in Mature Fruits of 35 Pear (Pyrus spp.) Cultivars

Xiao Wu, Hao Yin, Zebin Shi, Yangyang Chen, Kaijie Qi, Xin Qiao, Guoming Wang, Peng Cao, Shaoling Zhang

Frontiers in Plant Science · 2018 · 64 citations · 49 references

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cultivars were clustered into a distant group. Based on the principal component analysis (PCA), the cultivars could be divided into three groups and five groups according to seven main classes of epicuticular wax compounds and 146 wax compounds, respectively.

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