PRESENT STATUS AND FIRST RESULTS OF THE WORK IN PROGRESS ON APRICOT BREEDING IN FRANCE

• The objectives of breeding to aim at the checking of the difficulties encountered in growing in France resulting from the characteristics of this species.
• The choice of the parents and the breeding methods in order to realize in the same time:
  • An obvious genetical improvement since the first generation.
  • The reach of limits for aimed characters;
  • Genetical studies (genotype, combining ability, inheritance...).

With the passage of time, we have got a number of results of our breeding programme and have reached to a stage of completion of this work. We have now started the work on second generation.

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