NEW APRICOT VARIETIES BREEDED IN ROMANIA

When, in 1950, it has been set on the breeding program for the apricot varieties one could see the following deficiencies of the main grown apricot varieties:

• the die-back of the young trees on a large scale due especially to diseases susceptibility and a poor acclimatization ability under various ecological conditions;

• low and very inconstant yields from year to year as a consequence of flower buds injury caused by late winter frosts ;

• a short period for fresh consumption and fruit processing due to lack of varieties with early and late ripening season ;

• low fruit quality (small size, poor skin colour and flesh firmness).

One of the first objectives in the apricot breeding program was to obtain new varieties with a late blooming time induced by a longer dormancy of the flower buds and correlated with a better resistance to temperature fluctuations early in the spring.

VII Symposium on Apricot Culture and Decline

V. Cociu

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1983.121.24