Global pear breeding programmes: Goals, trends and progress for new cultivars and new rootstocks

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 909, Issue , 2011, Pages 105-120

  Brewer, L R ^a   Palmer, J W ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bicolour; Cacopsylla spp.; Cold hardiness; Cydonia oblonga; Dwarfing; Fire blight; Fruit quality; Interspecific; Precocity; Pyrus spp.; Quince; Resistance breeding; Venturia spp.

Indexed keywords

CACOPSYLLA; CYDONIA OBLONGA; PSYLLA; PYRUS; PYRUS PYRIFOLIA VAR. CULTA; VENTURIA NASHICOLA; VENTURIA PIRINA;

EID: 84855691423     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2011.909.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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