Mandorlo: Liste varietali 2010

LA SICILIA HA DECISO DI SALVARE LE VARIETà FRUTTICOLE AUTOCTONE

Rootstock Evaluation for European and Japanese Plums in Italy

The continuous update coming from fruit trees genetic improving projects determines constant innovations in terms of cultivars and rootstocks availability. In Italy, since 1995, the National Government has developed a research activity spread over the entire National territory. The project, which involves several Research Units, is related to all major fruit tree species and also plum regarding new Japanese and European cultivars as well as new rootstocks. The evaluation is performed by using the same experimental protocol, focusing on the vegetative and reproductive traits as well as on all aspects related to fruit quality. This paper shows data collected since the planting in 1995 from fe…