SOME RESULTS ON EVALUATION OF BULGARIAN EGGPLANT (S. MELONGENA L.) GERMPLASM COLLECTION

A national eggplant (S. melongena L.) collection was created at the Institute for Plant Genetic Resources (IPGR) in Sadovo, Bulgaria.
A complete system for managing the S. melongena L. Gene Bank was developed, involving planning, collecting, introducing, reproducing, documenting, analyzing, classifying and conserving the genetic resources.
A complex scientific approach for managing, testing and using the genetic resources of specific plant species within the national germplasm was developed.
In the process of long-term scientific and research work, breeding programmes were realized, in result of which 2 new eggplant cultivars “Luch” and “Antim”, carrying a complex of valuable properties and becoming later national standards, were developed.

III Balkan Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes

L. Krasteva, G. Neshev, M. Vassileva

germplasm, eggplant, trait collection, breeding programmes

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2007.729.10