Comparative estimation of availability of honeysuckle variety-specimens with different specific origin for commercial horticulture

Abstract

Honeysuckle is one of the most interesting and valuable berry plants. Modern production demands much from varieties. Honeysuckle varieties should possess the complex of economically-valuable characters, such as adaptability, high annual yield, early ripening. The important factor of fruits production increase is mechanization of labour-consuming processes and, in the first place, mechanization of harvesting. When solving the given problem, it is necessary to work out a great number of questions. Selection of varieties and hybrids, available for mechanical harvesting, is of great importance. Systematic analysis of the variety-specimens, derivatives of different strawberry species, showed that the most promising varieties and selective forms for mechanical harvesting were the ones developed on the base of honeysuckle Altaiskaya.