The origin of mangosteen: A review

Mangosteen ( Garcinia mangostana var. mangostana ) is an obligate apomictic species which does not require a fertilization process to produce seeds. The absence of male plants of mangosteen brings about an interest to find out the origin of mangosteen. Determining the parents is important in any imp...

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Published in:Genetic resources and crop evolution 2022-10, Vol.69 (7), p.2291-2299
Main Authors: Shaharudin, Mohamad Azimi, Zaki, Noorhariza Mohd, Saleh, Mohd Nazre, Mohd Noor, Normah, Midin, Mohd Razik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Cell division
Chloroplasts
Fertilization
Fruits
Garcinia mangostana
Hybridization
Hypotheses
Life Sciences
Plant Genetics and Genomics
Plant Physiology
Plant Sciences
Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Pollinators
Review
Seasons
Seeds
Sequence analysis
Trees
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Summary:Mangosteen ( Garcinia mangostana var. mangostana ) is an obligate apomictic species which does not require a fertilization process to produce seeds. The absence of male plants of mangosteen brings about an interest to find out the origin of mangosteen. Determining the parents is important in any improvement program to produce better quality products. Several hypotheses were proposed since the 1990s, and the most popular and frequently cited one stated that mangosteen was a product of hybridization of G. mangostana var. malaccensis and G. celebica . This hypothesis then became the groundwork for later experiments to further study the origin of mangosteen. The methods used included morphological comparison between Garcinia species, molecular marker analyses from the internal spacer, chloroplast sequencing, and microsatellite and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence analysis. This review discusses the different approaches taken to study the origin of mangosteen and suggestions for future work in order to verify the original parents of mangosteen.
ISSN:0925-9864
1573-5109
DOI:10.1007/s10722-022-01426-2