UC Davis genetic research on fig varieties

[Lish]

Document here

Found this today while trying to tease out the difference between VDB and beers black.

Summary:

Figs with different names but identical multilocus fingerprint included:

(1) six greenish-yellow figs with strawberry-yellow flesh inlcuded ‘Lemon’, ‘Dokkar’, ‘L.S.U. Everbearing’, ‘White Texas Everbearing’, and ‘Trojano’ characterized by a widely grown cultivar ‘Kadota’;

(2) five greenish-yellow to light brown skinned figs with light amber to yellow colored pulp included ‘Archipel’, ‘Malcolm’s Super Giant’, ‘Drap D’or’, and ‘Encanto Brown Turkey’ with two other closely related cultivars, ‘Alma’ and ‘Golden Celeste’;

(3) three medium sized purple/black figs ‘Vista’, ‘Violette de Bordeaux’, and ‘Beers Black’;

(4) two green figs with amber flesh ‘Verte’ and ‘Calverte’; and

(5) three green figs with thick rind with light strawberry flesh ‘Paradiso’, ‘Monstrueuse’, and ‘Ischia Green.’

 

[TorontoJoe]

@Lish This is interesting.... We're always teasing apart synonym figs.

Was all this on a single article somewhere?

 

[DCallahan]

@Lish This is interesting.... We're always teasing apart synonym figs.

Was all this on a single article somewhere?

The document link at the top of the OP post

 

[TorontoJoe]

The document link at the top of the OP post

Thanks Dan.... I should stop doing this on my phone... I totally missed the link

 

[TorontoJoe]

@Lish - This is a great article. Thank you for the link and summary. It's getting late for me but I want to link it to another discussion on synonym figs. I'll try to locate it tomorrow.

Best
Joe

 

[ktrain]

Lord knows there are so many synonyms out there it's difficult to keep up with it.
A section to list them all is a necessity.

 

[superdave336]

Lord knows there are so many synonyms out there it's difficult to keep up with it.
A section to list them all is a necessity.

I agree!!!

 

[hambones]

I'm not saying they're not synonyms (I'm definitely a lumper when it comes to varieties and synonyms), but do want to clarify that this type of genetic testing can only really differentiate varieties, not confirm synonyms. It doesn't compare enough of the genome to definitively prove that they are identical, but if any differences exist in these tests, then they are definitely genetically different. My dumb analogy is that it's like looking at a group of people and saying that because they all have the same hair, eye, skin color, and shoe size that they are are genetically identical.