Pollen quality of apricot cultivars and forms and prospects of its use in selection process

The research objective was to study the quality of pollen in perspective varieties and forms of an apricot and the possibility of its use in selection process. The study included 18 promising according to various indications cultivars and forms of Armeniaca vulgaris Lam. growing in the collection of Nikitsky Botanical Garden. The research was conducted during 2016-2019. Apricot cultivar Krymsky Amur, regionalized in the Crimea, was used as the control because it was one of the best according to economically valuable characteristics. According to the results of the work it was determined that among tstudied genotypes about 67 % had showed good results when using their pollen in the selection process. It was defined that about 67% of the genotypes included in the experiment of ovary formation made more than 20 % of number of all pollinated flowers. Morphological characteristic of pollen was studied. The size of pollen grains changed depending on a variety within 31.7-36...