SELECTION OF PEAR CULTIVARS IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Sufficient quantity of warmth and light, long frost-free period and mild winter allow to grow fastidious, fine pear cultivars of European origin in Moldova. The article mirrors research results of 166 new promising pear forms, created in Moldova Scientific-and-Practical Institute of Horticulture, Viticulture and Food Technologies for the last three decades. As a result of the research, according to the complex of valuable features, a number of promising forms was singled out for further crossings by main economically-valuable features, and also four promising forms were singled out for transmission to the State Cultivar Testing. Summer ripening term is 8-1-25, early-autumn term is 1-1-95; autumn term – 1-10-135, winter period is 1-5-94.