ISHS Acta Horticulturae 488: XI International Symposium on Apricot Culture
WILD APRICOT AND MYROBALANE (GENERATIVE) ROOTSTOCKS FOR APRICOT CULTIVARS |
| Author: | D. Surányi |
| Keywords: | seedling rootstocks, wild apricot, myrobalane |
| Abstract:
The Hungarian variety policy serves the interests of diversity well. However, if one considers also that the apricot yield is decreasing throughout the country, people who make a shallow analysis may detect a negative correlation. If one compares such rootstocks as myrobalane and wild apricot varieties, it is obvious that the latter have to be considered better rootstocks than the former, in spite of myrobalane varieties being favoured by nurseries due to their producing more showy grafts. As for apricot trees grafted on plum (local and historic) stocks they are paid even less attention than wild apricot, though such trees have a considerably longer life time and smaller decay as a consequence of apoplexy when compared with trees grafted on wild apricot and especially myrobalane rootstocks. Among the wild apricot rootstocks varieties, C. 1300, C. 1301, C. 1650 and C. 1652 are at the disposal of apricot farmers, all of them free of viruses and approved by the state. There is also a favourable supply of the C. 162, C. 359 and C. 679 myrobalane rootstocks. Due to the above mentioned rootstock varieties, as well as to the new ones which are still being tested, convenient rootstocks are available for new varieties, variants obtained by selection, and varieties introduced from abroad. The generative rootstocks were selected by Nyujtó et al. in the Fruit Research Station of Cegléd. | |
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