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Promising directions in apple breeding

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Long-term data are given on priority directions in apple breeding: for an increased content of biologically active substances in fruit and for scab resistance. The high effectiveness of apple breeding at the polyploid level is shown.

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  1. All-Russian Fruit Crops Breeding Research Institute, Orel, 302530, Russia

    E. N. Sedov, G. A. Sedysheva, M. A. Makarkina & Z. M. Serova

  2. North Caucasus Zonal Horticulture and Viticulture Research Institute, Krasnodar, 350901, Russia

    E. V. Ul’yanovskaya

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Original Russian Text © E.N. Sedov, G.A. Sedysheva, M.A. Makarkina, E.V. Ul’yanovskaya, Z.M. Serova, 2011, published in Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Sel’skokhozyaistvennykh Nauk, 2011, No. 4, pp. 14–17.

The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and regional investors, project no. 09-04-99135r-ofi.

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Sedov, E.N., Sedysheva, G.A., Makarkina, M.A. et al. Promising directions in apple breeding. Russ. Agricult. Sci. 37, 286–289 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367411040197

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