Book Chapter

Low-chill cultivar development

Raseira, M. C. B, Sherman, W. B, Topp, B. L

2008

Overview

This chapter focuses on the breeding of low-chill peach cultivars adapted to the subtropics, although they may be grown in temperate environments (in the absence of spring freezes that kill the bloom) or in tropical highlands. Topics covered are: reasons for breeding low-chill cultivars; history of low-chill cultivar development; current low-chill breeding programmes (New South Wales and Queensland, Australia; São Paulo, Brazil; Mexico; South Africa; Taiwan; Thailand; and California, Florida and Texas, USA); common objectives in low-chill peach breeding (low chilling requirement, time of flowering, flower bud density, blind nodes and bud drop, fruit development period, fruit shape, fruit firmness and disease resistance); and management of low-chill breeding populations (hybrid seed production, seedling populations, and testing advanced selections).

• Publisher: CABI
• Subject: Africa / Africa South of Sahara / America / angiosperms / Anglophone Africa / APEC countries / ASEAN Countries / Asia / Australasia / Australia / Botany & plant sciences / Brazil / chilling requirement / Commonwealth of Nations / Community of Portuguese Language Countries / Crop husbandry / cultivars / cultivated varieties / Developed Countries / Developing Countries / eudicots / eukaryotes / Formosa / Great Plains States of USA / Gulf States of USA / Latin America / North America / Oceania / OECD Countries / Pacific States of USA / peaches / plants / Prunus / Prunus persica / Rosaceae / Rosales / South America / South Atlantic States of USA / South East Asia / Southeastern States of USA / Southern Africa / Southern Plains States of USA / Southern States of USA / Southwestern States of USA / Spermatophyta / subsaharan Africa / Threshold Countries / United States of America / USA / West South Central States of USA / Western States of USA
• ISBN: 9781845933869, 1845933869