Volume 41 Number 2 Article 6 Pages: 65-67
Year 1987 Month 4
Title: New French Stone Fruit Rootstocks
Author: C. Grasselly
Citation
Abstract:
The climate of South-Western and
South-Eastern France is favorable to
the peach culture, however, the peach
growers encounter some difficulties
with different types of soil which can
be more calcareous or more loamy, or
too wet in winter for peach roots.
Consequently, for many years the
French peach growers use the follow
ing rootstocks for the peach: Almond
seedlings in dry and calcareous soil,
St.
Julien seedling or Damas suckers
in heavy soils.
Since 1945 the "Institut
National de la Recherche Agronomique" in the "Grande Ferrade Station" near Bordeaux had a breeding
program to improve rootstocks for
stone fruits and specially for the peach
culture.
Initiated by J. Souty, and fol
lowed by R. Bernhard, Ch.
Grasselly,
and G. Salesses, this work is carried on
by different ways and specially by
interspecific crosses.
The first and the
main result of this program was the
selection of Peach x Almond hybrid
G.F. 677 in 1960 which is currently
propagated by 6 or 7 millions of cuttings each year in Italy, France and
Spain.
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