# Review of practical breeding programmes in Europe - Pome fruit

Yves Lespinasse

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Yves Lespinasse. Review of practical breeding programmes in Europe - Pome fruit. Colloque EUFRIN, Oct 2004, Riga, Estonia. 2004. [hal-01600636](https://hal.science/hal-01600636)

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# Review of practical breeding programmes in Europe – Pome fruit

Yves LESPINASSE

INRA - Genetics and Horticulture (GenHort)

42, rue Georges Morel

BP60057

49071 BEAUCOUZE CEDEX

yves.lespinasse@angers.inra.fr

Numerous practical pome fruit breeding programmes are in progress all over Europe. Inside European Union, including Rumania and Bulgaria, it is necessary not only to count but to describe the main characteristics of these programmes. This review intends to know more about the objectives, the investment in terms of researchers, facilities, money source, future evolution of the programmes and finally to have an overview of the new varieties released in the last 5 years. Knowing the main characteristics of these breeding programmes will be very helpful to interact each other, to cooperate by sharing knowledge and material, to be more reactive when answering the European Calls for Proposals, in other words to really integrate and strengthen the European Research Area.

On the whole, the number of breeding programmes are quite numerous for apple scion (26 public or semi-public + 6 private + 3 for cider), about half this amount for pear scion (15 public or semi-public + 1 private), very few for apple rootstock (4 public or semi-public + 1 private) and for pear rootstock (7 public or semi-public + 1 private). Other figures about Full Time Equivalent Permanent Researchers, greenhouse and field area as well as main tendencies will be emphasized.