Figure 1

Clustering of Yoshino cherry tree leaves. (A–C) Dendrograms resulting from Ward’s cluster analysis of genomic distances of leaves from five tree branches of a Yoshino cherry tree. Each analysis used genomic distances calculated from one of three independent GP experimental trials using the same leaves. Genomic distances are displayed on dendrogram branches. (D) Dendrogram obtained from global clustering of leaves from the Yoshino cherry tree. Genomic distances analyzed were calculated from averaged spiddos data obtained from three independent GP experimental trials using the same leaves (for details see in Additional file 4: Table S2). (E) Yoshino cherry tree from which young leaves were sampled in April 2010, after the flowering season. The tree was located on the campus of Saitama University.