Innovation of cultivar / Fajtainnováció

The NARIC Fruitculture Research Institute founded on 1st January 2014 is the legal successor of Horticultural Research Institute’s Fruit Growing Department and Ornamental Department founded in 1950. Main activities of the Institute are to bred and domesticate pome fruit, stone fruit, shell fruit, soft fruit species, and rootstocks for fruit cultivars as well as annual flower cultivars propagated by seeds and rose cultivars. Our main breeding aims are production safety, increasing tolerance / resistance to diseases and pests and to produce fruits having outstanding taste, aroma and market value and to have an outstanding ornamental value for the ornamental species. The breeding programs started at foundation of the Institute are helped by biotechnological laboratories and ex-situ gene bank collections. As results of the breeding work are 197 fruit cultivars, 20 rootstock cultivars, 122 annual flower cultivars and 229 rose cultivars had been registered on the National Variety List.

Publications

ISBN: 978 615 5748 00 4

A magyar föld jövőéért / For the future of the Hungarian land Published: 01-08-2017

Details

Activity type

Publication of book/booklet/chapter

Activity work package

Project management

Activity number

NARIC-WP2-A16

Activity contact

dr. Geza Bujdoso
NARIC FRCI
Budapest
Park u. 2
1223
Hungary

Activity partner

NARIC

Activity country

Hungary

Last edit

14-08-2017