Nomenclatural standards for apple-tree cultivars developed at the North Caucasian Federal Scientific Center of Horticulture, Viticulture, Wine-making

Nomenclatural standards were issued for 6 cultivars of Malus domestica Borkh. (apple tree) developed at the North Caucasian Federal Scientific Center of Horticulture, Viticulture, Wine-making (NCFSCHVW). In addition to ‘Renet Kubanskiy’ (WIR-108872), they included cultivars with immunity to scab (Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G. Winter) controlled by the Rvi6 gene, released cooperatively with the Russian Research Institute of Fruit Crop Breeding (VNIISPK): ‘Amulet’ (WIR-104534), ‘Margo’ (WIR-108870), ‘Orfey’ (WIR-108871), ‘Talisman’ (WIR-108873), and ‘Yunona’ (WIR-108875).

The plant material of the apple-tree cultivars was identified and selected in the collection of the NCFSCHVW during the flowering and fruiting periods. An herbarium of flowers (except for ‘Renet Kubanskiy’), leaves, fruits, and annotinous shoots was prepared for each cultivar, supplied with a description of main pomological, agronomic, and adaptively significant traits, and a photo of the plant’s individual parts. Herbarium specimens, arranged in accordance with the recommendations of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), were registered the databases and placed for perpetual storage in the WIR Herbarium of the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) and the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources.

Each published nomenclatural standard for an apple-tree cultivar serves as an official scientific document certifying the breeding achievement and ensuring the perpetual preservation of the genuine and original genetic, taxonomic and morphological information on Southern domestic apple-tree cultivars. It can be used to verify such cultivar’s authenticity during its propagation and cultivation in industrial plantings.

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