Formation of perspective industrial assortment of cherry for southern horticultural zone

Abstract

The article presents the results of a multi-year breeding work in the North-Caucasian Federal Scientifi c Center for Horticulture, Viticulture and Wine-Making to create new sweet cherry varieties that are promising for the southern zone of horticulture. Varieties that form the basis of the zoned sweet cherry assortment of the Krasnodar Territory are created. The main attention is paid to the strengthening of the characteristics of adaptability in combination with stable yield, large-fruited and the marketability of fruits. New sweet cherry varieties are distinguished by high biological productivity and annual yield, have increased the resistance to the main stressors of the environment, fruits with suffi cient attractiveness and consumer quality. On the basis of the zoned sweet cherry assortment and taking into account perspective varieties passing State variety testing, it is possible to create a conveyor of sweet cherry varieties of different maturation periods. Scientifi cally substantiated selection of sweet cherry varieties of local breeding for industrial cultivation makes it possible to increase the reliability of commercial cultivation of sweet cherries in the southern horticultural zone. The description of zoned and perspective varieties of institute breeding sweet cherry of the of different maturation periods is given: Kavkazskaya uluchshennaya, Madonna, Kavkazskaya, Sashen’ka, Utro Kubani, Barkhatnaya, Volshebnitsa, Chernyye glaza, Yasno solnyshko, Yuzhnaya, Kontrastnaya, Krasna devitsa, Alaya, Mak, Luchezarnaya.