Fruit growing
and viticulture of South Russia

Annotation

The work with a collection provides the creation of a cherry gene pool, allocation of the varieties-standards, the sources and donors of valuable economic and biological signs for further use in the breeding and replenishment of information database, the preparation of materials for registration of a gene pool samples. In the article the results of study in 2004 - 2014 of a gene fund's collection of cherry and dukes of Melitopol experimental station of gardening are described. The sources of valuable economic and biological signs are allocated: winter hardiness of generative buds, resistance of buds to a frost, field resistance to a monilia and coccomycosis, compact of crown, self productivity, fast fructification, high tastes quality of fruits of early maturing and high productivity. Among 60 varieties - sources of valuable signs allocated in a work it is selected 20 which unite 3 and more valuable signs, including varieties of Amulet, Vstrecha, Griot Melitopolskaya, Igrushka, Melitopolskaya Radost, Melitopolskaya Purpurnaya, Prizvanie, Solidarnost, Shalunia, Chudo vishnya. Involvement of these varieties in the breeding process will allow you to receive the forms which as much as possible unite a complex of valuable signs in one genotype. For creation of new varieties of cherry and dukes 31 varieties of domestic and foreign breeding, that are the donors and sources of the specified valuable signs were used in hybridization. On three varieties (Shalunia, Vstrecha, Vozrozhdenie) "The Certificates on registration of a sample of plants gene pool of in the Ukraine" are received, applications for receiving of certificates submitted for six varieties. As a result of study of a collection, allocation of varieties-standards and sources of biological and economic and valuable signs, the collection of traits of cherry was created and registered in the National center of genetic resources of plants of Ukraine.