Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVI, Issue 1
Written by Elena IUREA, Sorina SÎRBU, Margareta CORNEANU, Iuliana Elena GOLACHE, Iulia MINEAȚĂ
The aim of the paper is to describe the valuable traits of bitter and sour cherry genotypes selected from the spontaneous and cultivated flora (in the Moldova region), approved as new cultivars between 1990-2016. That improve the domestic assortment of sour and bitter cherry with new cultivars that shows resistance to disease and frost, have qualitative fruits, adapted to the particular conditions of the Northeastern region of Romania. In terms of the weight of the fruits (g) cultivars that were highlighted are the cherry cultivar 'Amaris’ (5.5 g) with very significant positive differences and the sour cherry cultivar 'De Botoşani’ (6.0 g) with significant positive differences in comparison with the control (4.2 g for bitter and 5.7 g for sour cherry). In terms of stone size, the values for the cherry cultivars were between 0.25-0.33 g, while the values for the sour cherry cultivars were between 0.30-0.34 g, being classified as small to middle size according to the UPOV guideline. The studied bitter and sour cherry cultivars present good resistance to fruit cracking with 0.0-3.7% cracked fruits.
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