Fruit quality of some autochthonous and foreign apple cultivars grown in Romania.

摘要

Fruit quality is a whole of features and specific characteristics which stands for the selection and promotion of cultivars according to the market demands and destination. In the breeding work, this characteristic is a major objective in the selection of the new genotypes. Autochthonous cultivars like 'Rebra' and 'Generos' as well as 'Jonathan', 'Golden Delicious', 'Starkrimson', 'Idared' and 'Florina' were evaluated in comparison with new introduced ones like: 'Goldrush', 'Dalinred', 'Dalinbel', 'Ariwa', 'Enterprise', 'Granny Smith' and 'Braeburn' which are grown at Pitesti-Maracineni, Romania in terms of fruit quality: market appearance, flesh, taste and nutritive characteristics, according to the present demands on the European market.