ISHS Acta Horticulturae 592: V International Peach Symposium
FLAT PEACH BREEDING PROGRAM IN BEIJING |
| Authors: | Q. Jiang, J.Y. Guo, J.B. Zhao |
| Keywords: | flat peach, breeding, varieties |
| Abstract:
Flat peach is a peach variety originated from China. In the past there were more than 20 flat peach varieties. Beijing Institute of Pomology and Forestry is the main professional institution of peach breeding in northern China, which began its peach breeding program in the 1960's. Presently, many new flat peach varieties such as "Ruipan No. 1","Ruipan No. 2","Ruipan No. 3","Ruipan No. 4","Ruipan No. 5" and "Ruipan No. 8" have been released or bred. These new varieties are more improved than the original ancient ones especially in productivity, fruit firmness, and skin color, etc. Recently, our flat peach breeding program includes as follows: 1) Maturity Breeding (breeding a series of new varieties from early to late ripening); 2) B-type shape flat peach; 3) non-splitting at top middle; 4) not easy to tear at the bottom; 5) firm, sweet; good skin color 6) low chilling requirement; 7) nectarine; 8) flat peach inheritance. | |
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