Establishment, Preservation and Utilization of Fruit Germplasm in Romania

Abstract

The need for a rich germplasm stock to be used in breeding programs on the one hand, and the difficulty of preserving and properly using this stock on the other hand, have called for the reorganization of the pomological collection in our experiment stations. It involved the concentration, on a limited area, of a large number of cultivars, from the wild ones to the more recent ones, to serve as parental material for our own research workers. Of course this collection is available for exchange of pollen, seeds and scions with fruit breeders in other countries.