APPLE BREEDING AT THE COLUMNAR SHAPE OF THE CROWN IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS

Abstract

As a result of their own breeding in the North Caucasus Research Institute of Mountainous and Foothill Horticulture in the direction of one of the main fruit crops - the apple tree, a hybrid population, diverse in genotypic characteristics, was obtained, from which immune elites are identified, which are possible for cultivation by environmental technology in the foothills of the North Caucasus. Selected columnar elite, combining this characteristic with the immunity to scab and high commercial quality of fruit, are of interest not only for further breeding work, but also for direct cultivation in production.