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GOALS OF THE HUNGARIAN SOUR CHERRY BREEDING

Janos APOSTOL

Research Institute for Fruitgrowing and Ornamentals, Hungary

The yearly 60-80 000 tons of Hungarian sour cherry production is

5th of the world. At that time Hungary has the widest range of

sour cherry varieties.

Hungarian sour cherry breeding was started in 1950 by late Paul

Maliga and had been going on by Janos Apostol for 28 years.

Later the purpose was added with requiring for mechanical

harvesting and from 1990 resistant to diseases.

The disease resistant sour cherry varieties has been going on

jointly with Michigan State University, supported by US-Hungarian

Joint Board.

The first purpose of the breeging programme was to self fertile

and high quality new* varieties both for fresh consumption and

canning industry, producing constantly high yields

The success of there breeding work: 7 breaded varieties and 2

candidate varieties: Meteor korai, Favorit,

Jubileum, Korai

pipacs meggy, Erdi botermo, Maliga emleke, Csengodi (resistant to

Leaf spot and brown rot), IV-3/48 and IV-2/152 (candidate varie

ties). All of them are self fertile. At the present some 2000 sour cherry

hybrids arc in trial and the crossbreeding is has been going on.

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