NEW APRICOT VARIETIES BREEDED IN ROMANIA

• the die-back of the young trees on a large scale due especially to diseases susceptibility and a poor acclimatization ability under various ecological conditions;
• low and very inconstant yields from year to year as a consequence of flower buds injury caused by late winter frosts ;
• a short period for fresh consumption and fruit processing due to lack of varieties with early and late ripening season ;
• low fruit quality (small size, poor skin colour and flesh firmness).

One of the first objectives in the apricot breeding program was to obtain new varieties with a late blooming time induced by a longer dormancy of the flower buds and correlated with a better resistance to temperature fluctuations early in the spring.

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