Obtainment of new selective forms of feijoa

Abstract

Our analysis has been carried out on the collection plantations of the Nikita Botanical Gardens - National Scientific Center. The present feijoa plantations in the Nikita Botanical Gardens were comprised by the planting stock cultivated from seeds. Therefore these plantations demonstrate a great form variety. Among them there are trees with a high regular productivity, a good fruit quality but also are happened to be the specimens with negative characteristics: a minute low quality fruit, a low and irregular productivity. The selective study of feijoa was aimed on breeding of the new sorts and forms characterized by a high stable productivity and economically valuable fruit features: early terms of ripening, gross fruit, a high palatability. During breeding process the Nikitskaja Aromatnaja variety as the maternal form was involved. As the paternal one- form F₂ №10 which fruit characterize by extreme early terms of ripening and high palatability was involved. Consequently new noticeable hybrids have been bred (forms №1, forms №9).