‘BRS Serenata’: a peach for fresh market

Maria Do Carmo Bassols Raseira,Rodrigo Cezar Franzon,Nelson Pires Feldberg,Ciro Scaranari,Marco Antônio Dalbó

doi:10.1590/0100-29452020633

Abstract

Abstract Even though the peach tree was introduced in Brazil during the XVI century, it was only on the 1940’s that the first peach breeding program started in the country. Later on, other programs started being, until now, the largest ones, and the programs that gave more significant contributions to the peach crop development those from the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas and from Embrapa Temperate Agriculture. Presently, peach is cultivated not only in the colder areas of the South but also in the subtropics and high altitude areas of the tropics, due to dozens of cultivars released by these breeding programs. Peaches are sold entirely in the domestic market and in the largest consumers market, State of São Paulo, the preference is for white sweet flesh and low acid peaches with attractive appearance. The ‘BRS Serenata’ cultivar was released to fulfill a gap of white flesh peach between the seasons of ‘BRS Kampai’ and ‘BRS Fascínio’.

Highlights

Corresponding author: Resumo- O pessegueiro foi introduzido no Brasil no século XVI; mas, apesar disso, o primeiro programa de melhoramento só teve início no País, no fim da década de 1940
The first breeding program started at the end of the 1940’s by the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC), São Paulo (SP) (POMMER; BARBOSA, 2009; BARBOSA et al, 1993) with the objective of developing cultivars adapted to different conditions, mainly to areas with a chilling accumulation of 50-100 hours at the most
On the decade of 1950, a similar program started in Rio Grande do Sul, first at the Taquari Experimental Station, a State Institution, and later it was moved to the Experimental Station of Pelotas, a Federal Institution, presently part of Embrapa Temperate Agriculture

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Corresponding author: Resumo- O pessegueiro foi introduzido no Brasil no século XVI; mas, apesar disso, o primeiro programa de melhoramento só teve início no País, no fim da década de 1940. E-mail: cirosca@globo.com(ORCID 0000-0001-9700-1939) 3Agronomist, M.Sc., Analyst, Embrapa Temperate Agriculture, Experimental Station of Canoinhas-SC, Brazil. E-mail: nelson.feldberg@ embrapa.br(ORCID 0000-0002-5626-2427) 4Agronomist, Dr, Researcher, Epagri, Experimental Station of Videira-SC, Brazil.

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