Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXV, Issue 2
Written by Dan POPESCU, Adrian ASĂNICĂ, Valerica TUDOR
Blueberry varieties are one of the central decision and part of the orchard success when it comes to the investor’s choice. Therefore, even it is remarked a steadily increase of fruits demand from the global blueberry market, the consumer and producers claim new varieties of blueberries with new and better quality traits such as firmness, flavor, shelf life, storability, mechanical harvest, resistance to biotic and abiotic stress and even decorative values enhancement. In this trend, our endeavor at the Faculty of Horticulture Bucharest is focused to start breeding cultivars for the next blueberry generation. Beside the general breeding goals set for blueberries, at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest we are targeting additional objectives such as earliness in ripening, fruit color variability and decorative appearance. For the spring of 2021, we choose the following blueberry varieties as genitors: 'Simultan’, Hannah’s choice’, 'Early blue’, 'Duke’, 'Chandler’, 'Pink lemonade’, 'Spartan’, 'Blue ribbon’, 'Hortbleu petite’, 'Peach sorbet’, V. angustfolium. First hybridization results are promising and new crossing and evaluations are about to be done in the next years.
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