PRESENT STATUS AND FIRST RESULTS OF THE WORK IN PROGRESS ON APRICOT BREEDING IN FRANCE

In 1973, I had presented the Apricot breeding programme in France at the 5th Symposium on Apricot held in MADRID. I had especially explained:

• The objectives of breeding to aim at the checking of the difficulties encountered in growing in France resulting from the characteristics of this species.

• The choice of the parents and the breeding methods in order to realize in the same time:

  • An obvious genetical improvement since the first generation.

  • The reach of limits for aimed characters;

  • Genetical studies (genotype, combining ability, inheritance…).

With the passage of time, we have got a number of results of our breeding programme and have reached to a stage of completion of this work.
We have now started the work on second generation.

VII Symposium on Apricot Culture and Decline

J. COURANJOU

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1983.121.25