Peach Development of new cultivars Seminar, 2016

The seminar is annualy organized by IRTA and is addressed to a limited number of technicians and advisors. The topic of the seminar is the specialization of Technology for Prunus production and mainly of new cultivar assessment and development in peach and apricot.
The situation of peach industry production, exports and consumption in Spain is described. A better knowledge of effect of harvest date on fruit quality was analysed. This is more important if we consider the new varieties introduced in the last two decades, all of them with a high colour development and good fruit size in precocious stages. Consumer satisfaction directly related with the ripening stage and is key to increase the low level and decrease of peach consumption in Spain.
Agronomical performance and fruit quality of the new peach cultivars tested by IRTA was exposed by Dr. Ignasi Iglesias (IRTA). The information provided about cultivar adaptation allows the selection of the more adapted cultivars to particular climatic conditions of Ebro Valley (Spain). All the selected cultivars are full coloured, perfect skin and sweet taste, providing in the meantime a good agronomical performance, covering a chart of maturity from the end of May to the end o0f September.
In apricot, the experience of CBAS_CSIC (Murcia) in breeding for high quality, self-fertility and resistance to Sharka was reported by Dr. P. Egea and Dr. D. Ruiz. Some of these cultivars are now in development in different areas of Spain. The harvest date ranges from May to July.

Documents

Peach Development of new cultivars () Book

Details

Activity type

Organising/holding industry group meeting/event

Activity work package

Performance of new fruit varieties

Activity number

IRTA-WP2-A1

Activity contact

Dr. Ignasi Iglesias
+973-702579
IRTA-Fruitcentre, Parc de Gardeny
25003-Lleida (Spain)

Activity partner

IRTA

Activity country

Spain

Last edit

29-08-2017