Determination of the cold tolerance of sour cherry cultivars with frost treatments in climatic chamber

Pedryc, Andrzej and Hermán, Rita and Szabó, T. and Szabó, Zoltán (2008) Determination of the cold tolerance of sour cherry cultivars with frost treatments in climatic chamber. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE, 14 (1-2). pp. 49-54. ISSN 1585-0404

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Abstract

Nowadays, sour cherry buds can be seriously damaged by spring and winter frosts. Unlike other fruit species threatened by high frost damage, sour cherry cultivars have not been assessed for frost tolerance. The aim of our survey was to establish the relative cold tolerance of the Hungarian cultivars after treatment in a climatic chamber, and to optimize the methodology formerly elaborated for the frost treatment of apricot. Fourteen cultivars of Hungarian sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) were used in the experiments, which spanned the winters of 2005/2006 and 2006/2007. Our data were used to rank cultivars in two groups according to their levels of cold resistance. We also recommend critical temperatures and treatment times for the testing of sour cherry cultivar resistance to cold in climatic chambers.

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