Open AccessEVALUATION OF NEW APPLE CULTIVARS GROWN INROMANIAN NORTHEASTERN AREA
Author(s) -
M Corneanu,
Sorina Sîrbu,
Elena Iurea,
Iulia Mineață,
Iuliana Elena Golache
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
romanian journal of horticulture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2734-7664
pISSN - 2734-7656
DOI - 10.51258/rjh.2020.10
Subject(s) - cultivar , brix , phenology , horticulture , biology , botany , food science , sugar
The paper presents a 2-years study of the valuable characteristics in fourforeign apple cultivars grown in northeastern Romania, named Moldavia area. Thephenological stages, quality traits of fruits and some chemical parameters wereevaluated. Start flowering was determined at April 17th (’Resse’), while end offlowering was identified the period April 27th -28th. Period of flowering was 9 to 12days as average for studied years 2019-2020. Fruit’s weight have varied between120.55 g (’Resse’) and 179.46 g (’Remo’), while fruit’s equatorial diameter have variedbetween 65.82 mm and 74.87 mm at ‘Resse’ and respectively ‘Remo’, but nostatistically distinct differences registered between all studied apple cultivars. Thevalues of the soluble dry solids range between 14.65° Brix (‘Resse’) to 17.05° Brix(‘Relinda’), and the total dry solids has recorded values between 17.95% (’Resse’) to21.39% (‘Remo’). The studied apple cultivars showed variability but some gotremarked through large fruit’s size or high level of soluble dry solids.