Volume 53 Number 3 Article 26
Year 1999 Month 7
Title: Founding Clones of Low-chill Fresh Market Peach Germplasm
Authors: D.H. Byrne and V.A. Bacon
Abstract:
The source of the low-chilling trait in peach breeding is low quality, soft fruited, small, white
fleshed peaches from south China such as 'Peento,' 'Okinawa,' and 'Hawaiian.' These were intercrossed with local clones to develop commercially acceptable low-chill cultivars in the programs in the
U.S. (Florida), Brazil (Pelotas and Sao Paulo), and Mexico (Queretaro and Chapingo). The work at
these various sites except for the work between Chapingo and Florida, have developed independently
with only an occasional exchange of germplasm.
The founding clone analysis and data from isozymes,
RAPDs, and morphological analyses indicate that this low-chill germplasm is more diverse than the
U.S. high-chill germplasm since it combines the U.S. high-chill germplasm with local cultivars from
Brazil and Mexico and the exotic low-chill south China germplasm.
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