Sweet Cherry Hybrids with Homologation Perspectives

Abstract

Obtaining new sweet cherry varieties with high quality of fruits, different ripening periods, disease resistance, which turn to account the maximum of the pedoclimatic conditions of the Transylvania area it’s one of the main concerns of the breeders from Fruit Research and Development Station Bistrita. In Romania similar studies have been made mainly at ICDP Pitesti-Maracineni (Budan et al., 1997) and at SCDP Iasi (Istrate et al., 2008). In order to obtain new sweet cherry varieties which satisfy the current demands of the consumers and growers, in the last five years were studied at SCDP Bistrita ten sweet cherry hybrids with early and middle ripening (BN 2/224, BN 12/12, BN 1/1, BN 3/112, BN 2/66, BN 13/6, BN 18/24, BN 14/83, BN 18/6, BN 2/158) and four hybrids with late ripening (BN 14/148, BN 3/5 M2, BN 14/92, BN 3/29).