ISHS Acta Horticulturae 538: Eucarpia symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics
APPLE BREEDING IN THE FEDERAL CENTRE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH, INSTITUTE FOR FRUIT BREEDING AT DRESDEN-PILLNITZ, GERMANY |
| Author: | C. Fischer |
| Keywords: | Malus, apple breeding, programme, resistance, new cultivars |
| Abstract:
The apple breeding work in Germany is a long-term programme encompassing more than 70 years. The breeding aims are good fruit quality and regularly high productivity, combined with resistance to the economically important diseases scab, mildew, fire blight, bacterial canker, red spider mite, and the abiotic factors winter frost and spring frosts. New apple cultivars are characterised by high dessert fruit quality and productivity of Pi-cultivars, combined with multiple and durable resistance to different pathogens and pests of the Re-cultivars®. The Re-cultivars® from Dresden-Pillnitz offer a new concept for management in the orchards. Only in an integrated system with different resistant varieties in one orchard will the advantages of resistance be noticeable. The new resistant Pillnitz apple varieties guarantee the possibility to reduce fungicides by 80 % or more in fruit growing and are suitable for integrated and organic fruit production. | |
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