Breeding new fruit varieties

The history of the Siberian plum began at the end of the 19th century when one of its parents, the Japanese plum, became popular in the USA, Europe, S..

The storability of winter apples is one of the most important properties of apple trees, if not the most important, which is taken into account when c..

The Bakchar Breeding Station manages the largest haskap (Lonicera caerulea) plantation in Siberia. It covers an area of over 40 hectares in the north ..

Dwarf sour cherries are the result of breeding and selecting work by the University of Saskatchewan Fruit Program. The final product are varieties wit..

Haskap (Lonicera caerulea) also known as honeysuckle or honeyberry is a circumpolar species native to the cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It ..

The Zaosu Red Striped Pear, originally from China, is a visually striking fruit with distinctive yellow stripes along its red skin. This distinctive a..

Pomegranate is a very ancient crop native to Southwest Asia, specifically Iran, and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It has been cultivated in the M..

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), also known as Chinese jujube or Chinese date, is one of the oldest cultivated fruit trees in the world and the most im..

Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) is a valuable food, medicinal and ornamental plant. It is rarely attacked by pests and diseases and can be grown with mi..

Thanks to the results of worldwide research on sea buckthorn, this plant has become an important crop for the food, nutrition, health, and cosmetic in..

Breeding of dwarf sour cherries suitable for commercial production in the harsh conditions of the Canadian prairies began in the 1940s. Long-term bree..

In recent decades, we have witnessed an extreme decline in the production of edible chestnuts due to the devastation of chestnut orchards by the disea..