Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVI, Issue 2
Written by Svetoslav MALCHEV, Plamen IVANOV, Sashka SAVCHOVSKA, Vanya AKOVA
In the conditions of global climate change and invasion of new pests, the utilisation of the local genepool is a vital step towards sustainable agriculture. Local cultivars and forms are generally considered better adapted to the conditions of the originating region than a widely spread cultivars bred elsewhere. In the current study, two old local cherry cultivars 'Kuklenska belitsa’ and 'Ranna cherna edra’ and two newly selected hybrids 'Asparukh’ (El.17-90) and 'Tzvetina’ (El.17-37) are compared to commercial cultivars 'Bigarreau Burlat’, 'Van’, 'Sunburst’ and the FGI-Plovdiv cultivar 'Kossara’ in order to assess their performance in terms of fruit characteristics (biometry and fruit chemical composition) and resistance to pests.
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