Description

Rubus occidentalis is a species of Rubus native to eastern North America. Its common name black raspberry is shared with other closely related species. Other names occasionally used include bear's eye blackberry, black cap, black cap raspberry, and scotch cap.

Rubus occidentalis is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 to 3 metres (6.6 to 9.8 ft) tall. The leaves are pinnate, with five leaflets on leaves, strong-growing stems in their first year, and three leaflets on leaves on flowering branchlets. The flowers are distinct in having long, slender sepals 6 to 8 millimetres (0.24 to 0.31 in) long, more than twice as long as the petals. The round-shaped fruit is a 12-to-15-millimetre (0.47 to 0.59 in) diameter aggregation of drupelets; it is edible, and has a high content of anthocyanins and ellagic acid.

Long stems also called canes grow up to 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) in length, usually forming an arch shape, but sometimes upright. Canes have curved, sharp thorns, while immature canes are unbranched and have a whitish bloom.

The black raspberry is related to the red raspberry Rubus idaeus and Rubus strigosus, sharing the white underside of leaves, and fruit that readily detaches from the carpel.

Whole Genomes

Whole Genome Sequences & Annotations for Rubus occidentalis

• Rubus occidentalis v3.0

S genes

Rubus occidentalis S genes

Query	Chr	Size(bp)	Coordinates	BLASTn Hit	BLASTn %ID	Domain

Downloads

The Rubus occidentalis S gene sequences are available in FASTA format.

CDS and Protein (FASTA file)

S-gene_Rubus_occidentalis

Publications

VanBuren R, Bryant D, Bushakra JM, Vining KJ, Edger PP, Rowley ER, Priest HD, Michael TP, Lyons E, Filichkin SA, Dossett M, Finn CE, Bassil NV, Mockler TC. The genome of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis). Plant J. 2016 Sep;87(6):535-47. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13215.

VanBuren R, Wai CM, Colle M, Wang J, Sullivan S, Bushakra JM, Liachko I, Vining KJ, Dossett M, Finn CE, Jibran R, Chagné D, Childs K, Edger PP, Mockler TC, Bassil NV. A near complete, chromosome-scale assembly of the black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) genome. Gigascience. 2018 Aug 1;7(8):giy094. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giy094.

Jibran R, Dzierzon H, Bassil N, Bushakra JM, Edger PP, Sullivan S, Finn CE, Dossett M, Vining KJ, VanBuren R, Mockler TC, Liachko I, Davies KM, Foster TM, Chagné D. Chromosome-scale scaffolding of the black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis L.) genome based on chromatin interaction data. Hortic Res. 2018 Feb 7;5:8. doi: 10.1038/s41438-017-0013-y.