GENE POOL AND CREATION OF CULTIVARSOF SOUTHERN FRUIT CROPS FOR CRIMEA AND SOUTHERN RUSSIA
Existing cultivars of fruit crops in Crimea and southern Russia are insufficiently resistant to extreme environmental factors. In this regard, there is a need for highly adaptive breeding cvs for intensive orchards. Nikitsky Botanical Garden has a large gene pool of southern fruit crops, which have more than 6 thousand cvs and forms. At this base the selection work was carried out, as a result 122 varieties have been included to the register of Ukraine and Russia cvs (Republic of Crimea), including 76 new cvs for the past 5 years. The most promising among them are offered for implementation in production.