Breeding new fruit varieties

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..

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..

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 characteristics of apple trees, if not the most important ones, which are taken into acc..

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

Sea buckthorn is a hardy, fast growing deciduous tree-like shrub, between 2 to 4m tall, with yellow or orange berries. It has brown or black rough bar..

The breeding of dwarf sour cherries began in the 1940s by Dr. Les Kerr. The past 50 years of breeding have combined hardiness, dwarfism and good fruit..

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