Use of Ribes L. and Rubus L. genetic resources in the Institute for Fruit Growing (Belarus)

Abstract

The article provides a short data of the genetic resources of Ribes L. and Rubus L. in the small fruit plants breeding department of the RUE «Institute for Fruit Growing». There were given the main directions of the genefund use of black and red currant and raspberry. In order to preserve the genetic diversity of Ribes L. a pivot collection was created. For a future use in breeding on suitability for mechanized harvesting there were created 2 target oriented and characteristic collections of suitability sources for a mechanical harvesting of black and red currant. From the genefund of black currant over the last twelve years 4 introduced varieties of black currant, 6 – red currant and 5 raspberry varieties were passed into the State Variety Trial of the Republic of Belarus. At the present time in the republic there are some zoned cultivars. They are 1 cultivar of black currant («Klaudia»), all cultivars of red currant («Krasnaya Andreichenko», «Varshevicha», «Viksne belaya», «Natali», «Smolyaninovskaya» and «Yuterbogskaya») and 3 cultivars of raspberry («Babje leto», «Zeva Herbsternte» and «Cumberland»).