Volume 62 Number 3 Article 6
Year 2008 Month 7
Title: Research Note: Release of Hairless Kiwifruit 'Eldorado' and 'Nugget', and 'Early Bird' Pollinizer for Further Evaluation
Authors: K. Ryugo, E. Stover
Abstract:
The Department of Plant and Environmental
Sciences, UC-Davis, is releasing two relatively
hairless kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis
Planch.) cultivars, ‘Eldorado’ and ‘Nugget’,
and an early blooming male pollinizer, ‘Early
Bird’. The seedlings originated from a mixture
of seeds collected from a test plot of A.
chinensis and A. deliciosa [(A. Chev.) C. F.
Liang et A. R. Ferguson], sent to the senior
author in 1983 by Mr.
Ma Jie, Vice Director
of the Scientific and Technological Commission
of Shijiazhuang Prefecture, Hebei
Province, China.
The seeds were germinated
in the laboratory, and in 1990, 120 seedlings
were transplanted to an isolated block in the
departmental orchard in Davis, Calif.
Among
the seedlings, five produced fruits lacking the
tough bristle-like trichomes which are typical
of A. deliciosa (3).
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