Cherry plum genetic fund of Nikita botanical garden: sources of valuable traits

Abstract

As a result of long-term studies of the gene pool of cherry plum of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, cultivars-sources of valuable traits have been identified: early ripening of fruits (Evgeniya, Donchanka, Kometa Rannyaya, Sestrichka, Kiziltashskaya Rannyaya, Annushka, Kurortnaya, Subkhi Rannyaya, Kryimskaya Smuglyanka); undersized plants (Karasu, Volschebnitsa, Izyumnaya, Zarya Kubani, Eliasova, Donchanka, Obilnaya Novaya, Obilnaya Slaboroslaya, Kryimskaya Roza, Kubanskaya Kometa etc.); late flowering of plants (Alenkij Cvetochek, Altcina, Aromatnaya, Darvazovskaya, Zhelannaya, Zolotisto-Orangevaya, Orbita, Kryimskaya Smuglyanka, Kryimskaya Roza, Pissardi Krupnoplodnaya etc.). Selected for breeding cultivars with a complex of valuable traits and two cultivars (Feeria and Yuzhnaya Noch) to improve the assortment of cherry plum in Crimea