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Towards sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) breeding: phenotyping evaluation of newly developed hybrids

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An increasing demand for cherry production (Prunus avium L.) in Greece led to the development of new high quality sweet cherry cultivars. Self-incompatibility in cherry is one of the most challenging issues for the species’ cultivation and top breeding priority. Τhe present study focuses on the development of new hybrids with improved traits such as productivity, fruit size, organoleptic characteristics and self-compatibility. For this purpose, thirty different cultivars were crossed and produced hybrids that were evaluated according to 34 morpho-physiological characteristics. The results were analyzed using the XLSTAT (version 2014.1) software and a dendrogram was constructed using the agglomerative hierarchical clustering method. Optimal hybrid clustering was achieved when characteristics of great economic importance such as fruit shape and size, growth habit and days to blooming were included in the analysis. Based on the results, new sweet cherry hybrids with the special character of self-compatibility were developed. Our findings provide crucial new information for sweet cherry future breeding programs and cultivation.

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Aliki Xanthopoulou acknowledges “HFRI: Research Projects for Postdoctoral Researchers” funded by H.F.R.I. (Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).

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  1. Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, ELGO-DEMETER, 570001, Thermi, Thessaloníki, Greece

    Ioannis Ganopoulos

  2. Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Environmental Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece

    Anna-Maria Farsakoglou, Filippos Aravanopoulos, Ermioni Malliarou & Evangelia Avramidou

  3. Perrotis College, American Farm School. Thessaloniki, 57001, Thessaloníki, Greece

    Athanasios Tsaftaris

  4. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloníki, Greece

    Aliki Xanthopoulou

  5. Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece

    Athanassios Molassiotis & Michail Michailidis

  6. Center of Excellence in Bioresources for Agriculture, Industry and Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Maslin Osanthanunkul

  7. Department of Pomology, Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, 59035, Naousa, Greece

    Konstantinos Kazantzis

  8. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, 50200, Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Maslin Osanthanunkul

  9. Institute of Applied Biosciences, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece

    Panagiotis Madesis

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Ganopoulos, I., Farsakoglou, AM., Aravanopoulos, F. et al. Towards sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) breeding: phenotyping evaluation of newly developed hybrids. Euphytica 214, 99 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-018-2179-2

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