Articles
NEW PLUM CULTIVARS FROM HOHENHEIM
Article number
478_26
Pages
171 – 174
Language
Abstract
Plum pox virus is a serious problem in the plum production in Germany.
Because of the not satisfying fruit quality of the present resistant varieties we started in the year 1980 a plum breeding program at Hohenheim.
Sharka resistance tests were made in an orchard with natural infected young trees of ‘Hauszwetsche’. Over 40 % of the tested seedlings were tolerant or resistant.
From over 1000 seedlings of the first breeding cycle 6 hybrids were selected as new tolerant or resistant cultivars and introduced in the last years.
These new cultivars are decribed below.
Because of the not satisfying fruit quality of the present resistant varieties we started in the year 1980 a plum breeding program at Hohenheim.
Sharka resistance tests were made in an orchard with natural infected young trees of ‘Hauszwetsche’. Over 40 % of the tested seedlings were tolerant or resistant.
From over 1000 seedlings of the first breeding cycle 6 hybrids were selected as new tolerant or resistant cultivars and introduced in the last years.
These new cultivars are decribed below.
Authors
W. Hartmann
Keywords
Plums, cultivars, ripening time
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