A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RASPBERRY AND BLACKBERRY CULTIVARS IN COMPETITION CULTURE

Ioan Viorel Rati, Nicoleta Badaluta, Dumitra Raducanu

University „Vasile Alecsandri” of Bacau, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecology and Environment Protection, Marasesti Street, no. 157, Romania e-mail: ratiioanviorel@yahoo.com

Abstract

The research has undergone a comparative study of 8 raspberry and 11 blackberry cultivars in competition culture and intensive cropping system. Their purpose of this study is the evolution of the main vegetation and fructification phenophases; vegetative growths (bush height, size, length of annual growth) of raspberry and blackberry cultivars; fruit production per plant, biometric characteristics of fruit; dry substance content and establishing a crop variety suitable for Bacau area. The recommended cultivars for nursery breeding are raspberry cultivars September (1.7 kg/plant), Laxton 410 (1.6 kg/plant), Rubin Bulgarski (1.65 kg/plant) and blackberry cultivars Evergreen (2.65 kg/plant), Arkansas 635 and Arkansas 537 (1.56 kg/plant).

Keywords

raspberry blackberry phenological observations determinations