Achieving self-compatible apricots by controlled crosses among selected cultivars
The native cultivated apricots in Iran are Asian grouped apricots and thus all are considered as self-incompatible.
For economic yield adequate pollination is necessary.
Planting self-compatible cultivars makes it possible to establish solid blocks of apricots and increasing uniform fruit production.
Controlled hybridization with selected parents was carried out to have self-compatible hybrids.
In this way, two commercial endemic cultivars namely: 'Shams' and 'Shahroodi' were crossed as seed plants with four self-compatible pollen donors; to obtain offspring with inherited Sc allele.
Common techniques were applied to test the auto-fertility of these 4-year-old hybrid trees.
The successful transmission of the Sc allele in this article is presented.
Some hybrid plants produce high-quality fruits.
The fruits are also characterized in this paper.
This work shows the ease of Sc allele inheritance in apricots.
Gharesheikhbayat, R., Taheri, E. and Davoudi, D. (2021). Achieving self-compatible apricots by controlled crosses among selected cultivars. Acta Hortic. 1315, 201-206
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1315.31
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1315.31
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1315.31
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2021.1315.31
apricot, Sc allele, hybridization, controlled crossing, inheritance
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