Progress in Temperate Fruit Breeding: Proceedings of the Eucarpia Fruit Breeding Section Meeting held at Wädenswil/Einsiedeln, Switzerland from August ...

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Progress in combining mildew resistance from Malus robusta and Malus zumi with fruit quality....Pages 3-6
Observations on different mildew sources used in apple breeding at Ahrensburg....Pages 7-12
Early selection for partial resistance to powdery mildew, Podosphaera leucotricha (Ell. et Ev.) Salm, in apple progenies....Pages 13-15
Isoenzyme aided selection in the transfer of mildew ( Podosphaera leucotricha ) resistance from Malus hupehensis to the cultivated apple....Pages 17-20
Breeding apples for scab tolerance at Holovousy....Pages 21-25
Apple breeding for disease resistance in Hungary....Pages 27-30
Susceptibility of some apple cultivars to scab ( Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) Aderh.) in Slovenia....Pages 31-34
The behaviour of some apple varieties in the Eastern Subcarpathian area....Pages 35-42
Breeding apple cultivars with multiple resistance....Pages 43-48
Screening methods of apple trees for resistance to Valsa canker....Pages 49-52
Results of testcrossing in order to get disease resistant sour cherry varieties....Pages 53-55
Evaluation of two screening methods for resistance of apricot, plum and peach to Monilinia laxa ....Pages 57-61
Breeding for resistance to fungal diseases in strawberry....Pages 63-66
Identification of pathogenic races of Phytophthora fragariae Hickman in Germany....Pages 67-71
Breeding for resistance to Phytophthora root rot in red raspberries....Pages 73-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
A new race of Venturia inaequalis virulent to apples with resistance due to the Vf gene....Pages 79-79
Results on the stability of scab resistance in apple breeding....Pages 81-85
Histological and cytological studies of the interaction between apple selections carrying the resistance Vm and compatible and incompatible Venturia inaequalis strains....Pages 87-92
Approaches for breeding apples with durable disease resistance....Pages 93-97
Differential resistance in apple against scab and its use in breeding and in orchard planting strategies to control the disease....Pages 99-104
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Apple scab resistance and durability. New races and strategies for the future....Pages 105-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Apple Breeding Program at the University of Bologna....Pages 109-116
Aims of the apple breeding programme at Wädenswil....Pages 117-121
Four decades of apple breeding at the Fruit Research Institute at Čačak....Pages 123-125
Apple and pear breeding in Bulgaria....Pages 127-129
Results of mutation breeding of apples at RBIP Holovousy....Pages 131-133
Fruit varieties from Belarus....Pages 135-139
The Pillnitz apple rootstock breeding programme results....Pages 141-145
Stone-fruit selection in Transcarpathia....Pages 147-147
Temperate fruit crop improvement in India....Pages 149-156
Fruit quality in selfed and open pollinated progenies of two apple cultivars....Pages 157-160
Shortening of the juvenile period in apple breeding....Pages 161-164
Inheritance of tree and fruit characters in progenies from crosses of sweet cherry ( Prunus avium L.) cultivars....Pages 165-172
New plum varieties with adaptation to the Eastern Subcarpathian Region....Pages 173-176
Selecting apricots with good fruit quality and resistance to late spring frosts in Gürün....Pages 177-178
Studies on selection of walnut ( Juglans regia L.) in Gürün....Pages 179-181
Breeding strawberries for Eastern Central Canada....Pages 183-187
Progress in breeding decaploid fragaria × vescana hybrids....Pages 189-191
Selection in seedling populations and clonal progenies of strawberry ( Fragaria ananassa Duch.)....Pages 193-197
Breeding black currants, and characteristics of promising hybrids....Pages 199-202
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Polyploid and mutation breeding in Cornus mas and Ribes ....Pages 203-206
A research on the selection of cornel....Pages 207-210
Heritability estimates in raspberry breeding....Pages 211-213
Sharp shifts exist in phase change of woody plants....Pages 215-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Combining apetalous parthenocarpy with columnar growth habit in apple....Pages 221-224
Improvement of seed set and seed germination in apple....Pages 225-228
Genotypic variation in apple × quince progenies....Pages 229-233
Segregation for fruit characters in some crosses of European and Asian pears....Pages 235-238
Methods for evaluating fruit characters and incorporation in a final index in the Norwegian pear breeding programme....Pages 239-242
Eradication of Erwinia amylovora (fire blight) from apple propagating wood by hot water treatment....Pages 243-243
Flower quality and fruit quality in almond: Conflicting objectives?....Pages 245-248
Sensory evaluation of six strawberry cultivars after machine harvest....Pages 249-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
DNA fingerprinting — A useful tool in fruit breeding....Pages 257-262
Progress in mapping agronomic genes in apple (The European Apple Genome Mapping Project)....Pages 263-267
Development and application of molecular marker linkage maps in woody fruit crops....Pages 269-273
The New Zealand apple genome mapping project....Pages 275-279
Identification of a RAPD marker linked to the Vf gene for scab resistance in apples....Pages 281-285
Selection of a mutant from adventitious shoots formed in X ray treated cherry leaves and differentiation of standard and mutant with RAPDs....Pages 287-290
Towards a marker assisted breeding for resistance against apple scab....Pages 291-294
Molecular classification of Malus with RAPD markers....Pages 295-300
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Inheritance of leaf isozymes in apple ( Malus domestica Borkh. and Malus floribunda Van Houtte)....Pages 301-303
The European Prunus mapping project....Pages 305-308
Molecular genetic mapping of peach....Pages 309-311
Characterization of isozyme variation in walnut ( Juglans regia L.)....Pages 313-320
The use of isoenzyme polymorphisms as an aid for cultivar identification in strawberry....Pages 321-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Stable gene expression in transgenic apple tree tissues and segregation of transgenes in the progeny — preliminary evidence....Pages 329-331
Transgenic ‘Malling 26’ apple expressing the attacin E gene has increased resistance to Erwinia amylovora ....Pages 333-338
Isolation of apple genomic clones containing putative β -1,3-glucanase gene(s)....Pages 339-342
 Agrobacterium -mediated transformation of the apple cultivar Granny Smith....Pages 343-347
Coat protein-mediated protection against plum pox virus in herbaceous model plants and transformation of apricot and plum....Pages 349-354
Effects of explant size, pretreatment, and light intensity on shoot regeneration from in vitro -grown apple leaves....Pages 355-359
Simplified protocol for in vitro shoot regeneration from leaves of Prunus domestica L. (cv ‘Susina di Dro’)....Pages 361-363
Plant regeneration from tissue cultures of Malus species: The importance of the genotype....Pages 365-369
Plant regeneration from cotyledons and embryonic axes in apple: Sites of reaction and effect of pre-culture in the light....Pages 371-375
 In vitro induction of adventitious shoot and embryo formation in somatic tissues of apple ( Malus pumila Mill.) zygotic embryos and stem segments....Pages 377-379
Raising sweet cherry seedlings by using in vitro techniques....Pages 381-383
Rapid introduction of early season sweet cherry cultivars through in vitro micropropagation and virus elimination....Pages 385-388
Tissue culture approaches to peach improvement....Pages 389-393
Studies on plant regeneration from tissue-derived callus in Fragaria × ananassa Duch.....Pages 395-398
 In vitro androgenesis in apple: Induction, regeneration and ploidy level....Pages 399-402
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Restrictions of the efficiency of haploid plant production in apple cultivar Idared, through parthenogenesis in situ ....Pages 403-408
Isolation and culture of apple microspores: Some preliminary results....Pages 409-409
Prospects for application of anther culture in selection of fruit plants....Pages 411-413
Somatic embryogenesis in grapevine Vitis vinifera L.....Pages 415-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
The Dresden-Pillnitz fruit tree genebank and its use....Pages 423-424
Screening fruit tree genetic resources in Belgium for disease resistance and other desirable characters....Pages 425-431
Genetic resources in apple, pear and vineyard peach populations in former Yugoslavia....Pages 433-437
Genetic resources in apricot and peach trees in Romania....Pages 439-445
Genetic diversity and scope of walnut improvement in India....Pages 447-449
Resistance to a single UK isolate of Colletotrichum acutatum in strawberry germplasm from Northern Europe....Pages 451-454
Strawberry genetic resources in Romania....Pages 455-457
Screening Actinidia species germplasm for frost tolerance....Pages 459-461
Genetic diversity in Hippophae L. and its use in plant breeding....Pages 463-467
Back Matter....Pages 469-470