SOME RESULTS OF PEACH BREEDING IN THE RESEARCH STATION OF FRUIT GROWING CONSTANTA, ROMANIA

The Romanian Peach National Collection is located at Valu lui Traian (near the Black Sea coast) in the S-E of Romania and it contents 855 genotypes.
The breeder-team has done an intense activity in order to grow rich the germplasm fund, to improve the peach, pavia and nectarine assortments and to obtain new cultivars.
So, between 1984-2007, 19 varieties of peach, pavia, nectarine and brugnone, standard and dwarf were registered.
Between 2000-2007, 7 ornamental varieties of peach and nectarine, for parks and gardens were obtained.

I Balkan Symposium on Fruit Growing

L.M. Dumitru

Prunus persica, genotype, hybrid, selection, assortment

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.825.22