Rumpunen, Kimmo
- Department of Horticultural Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Conference paper2000Peer reviewed
Rumpunen, Kimmo; Trajkovski, Viktor; Bartish, Igor; Garkava, Larisa; Nybom, Hilde; Gustafsson, Mats; Norin, I.; Kviklys, D.
Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica), a dwarf shrub belonging to Maloideae within Rosaceae, is investigated as a possible multipurpose crop for the production of juice, flavour, and fruit fibre. Research is co-ordinated as links in a chain from plant to finished product including clop optimisation, chemical characterisation, processing, and marketing. Here we present preliminary results obtained when evaluating Chaenomeles generic resources.
Chaenomeles; plant breeding; genetic diversity; chemical characterisation
Acta Horticulturae
2000, number: 538, pages: 345-348
Publisher: International Society for Horticultural Science
Eucarpia Symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics
Horticulture
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/43600