Volume 57 Number 1 Article 3
Year 2003 Month 1
Title: Promising Cornelian Cherries (Cornus mas L.) from the Northeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey
Authors: L. Pirlak, M. Guleryuz, and I. Bolat
Abstract:
The objective of this research was to select valuable genetic resources of cornelian cherry (Cornus
mas L.) grown in Northeastern Anatolia, Turkey from 1990 to 1996 for fruit size and yield.
Approximately 1000 seedling trees were examined and 224 phenotypes having a fruit weight of 2.9 g and yield
per cm2 of trunk cross section area over 0.15 kg/cm2 were selected in the first years (1990-1992). Thirty-one of these, found to be superior, were selected and evaluated for fruit characteristics.
The ranges
of the measured fruit characteristics for the selected phenotypes varied from 2.9 to 5.2 g for fruit weights,
6.0 to 9.4 for flesh/stone ratio, 11.5 to 16.8% for total soluble solids (TSS), 35.6 to 106.3 mg vitamin
C/100 g, 1.5 to 4.7% for total acidity (as malic acid) and 3.0 to 9.2 for TSS/acid ratio.
These results suggest that the cornelian cherries selected may be suitable for commercial cultivation in the region.
Many
phenotypes were evaluated as promising for further breeding efforts.
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