COLLECTION OF SUBTROPICAL FRUIT AND BERRY CROPS AT DAGESTAN BREEDING EXPERIMENTAL STATION OF VITICULTURE AND VEGETABLE GROWING

The paper presents a composition and range of subtropical fruit crops from the collection of Dagestan Breeding Experimental Station of Viticulture and Vegetable Growing. For the first time in the conditions of Southern Dagestan, based on the collection, there was given agrobiological and economic-technological evaluation for different species and cultivars of subtropical fruit crops (kaki persimmon, Oriental persimmon, American persimmon, pomegranate, fig, jujube, sea buckthorn, feijoa, cudrang, buffalo berry), which is of great interest for their implementation and costeffective industrial cultivation in Dagestan. Some cultivars with high and regular yield, good quality and keeping quality of production were revealed. The paper describes the best selected cultivars of kaki persimmon, pomegranate, fig, jujube, sea buckthorn, feijoa, cudrang and buffalo berry that meet the requirements of production.