ISHS Acta Horticulturae 645: VII International Mango Symposium
MANGO BREEDING: RESULTS AND SUCCESSES |
| Authors: | C.F. Human, S. Rheeder |
| Keywords: | Mango, breeding, fruit quality, South Africa, evaluation, selections, cultivars |
| Abstract:
The mango industry in South Africa is mainly based on five commercial cultivars. Numerous problems with these cultivars induced the start of a breeding programme in 1990 by the Agricultural Research Council’s Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops (ARC-ITSC). Various promising selections from this breeding programme are being evaluated and compared with commercial cultivars regarding yield, fruit size and internal fruit quality. Six hectare open and controlled cross pollinated selections were evaluated over the past few years at Messina, Nelspruit and Malelane. In the past promising selections were grafted on two rootstocks namely ‘Sabre’ and ‘Peach’. From this programme two cultivars, Joa and Chené, were released to the industry in 1996. In order to speed up the evaluation process promising selections are now topworked onto established ‘Sabre’ rootstocks. Characteristics of newly developed selections such as A2-CD28, C2/D2-T13 and C2/D2-N6 are discussed. | |
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