New adaptive raspberry variety for Middle Ural zone

The research objective was creation of a new local adaptive raspberry variety with the best commodity and consumer qualities of berries for Central Ural zone. The location of the research making was Sverdlovsk Selection Station of Gardening - Structural Branch of FSBRE UrFARC UrB RAS, URI "Gene Pool of Fruit, Berries and Decorative Crops on Central Ural Mountains" (Ekaterinburg). The research was conducted according to the technique of the variety studying of fruit, berries and nut crops and the technique of field experiment. The object of the research was the variety Alaya rossyp (selection number - 2-1-95). The control variety was Lubitelskaya Sverdlovska. For the determination of the level of winter hardiness the shoots for the winter period were not bent down. The variety Alaya rossyp was received from free pollination of an elite seedling 6-69 (Novost Kuzmina × Vysokaya). The authors of the variety were I.I. Bogdanova, E.Yu. Nevostrueva. Except high winter hardiness the variety was valuable for high return of the crop (3-4 harvestings) unlike other varieties with 7-9 harvestings, productivity (average productivity in 5 years of test on Kirov state variety testing site made 64.2 c/hectare), quite transportable extended form of the berries of average extent having good sweet-sour taste. The bush of the variety Alaya rossyp is of medium height, semi-sprawling. The ability to shoots forming is average. The shoots are thorned, with the medium-sized thorns of purple coloring located on the whole shoot. The variety is resistant to raspberry bug and to the main fungal diseases of raspberry in average degree. It is resistant to autumn droughty conditions, but in the lack of atmospheric precipitation during berries maturing additional irrigation is required. In 2019 the raspberry variety Alaya rossyp was included into the State Register of Selection Achievements on Volga-Vyatka Region of the Russian Federation.