APPLE BREEDING PROGRAMS AND METHODS: THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT

Long-term studies of apple development features allowed breeding intensification and shortening of the time of cultivar development from 36–48 years to 23–27 or even 13–17 years. It is noted that requirements for cultivar are constantly toughened. They include high fitness, early maturation, perform...

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Main Author: E. N. Sedov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders 2015-01-01
Series:Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
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Online Access:https://vavilov.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/171