Resilience to low temperatures, pests and disease: Causing agents of selected cornelian cherry genotypes in Gornje Polimlje Region

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a three-year study of the resilience to low temperatures, pests and disease-causing agents of 30 Cornelian cherry genotypes (Cornus mas L.) selected from natural population in the Gornje Polimlje Region. Cornelian cherry has many useful and important biological features, which are not the characteristics of many other fruit species, such as the resilience to pests and disease-causing agents; growing in poor soil which can not be reclaimed and cultivated; and the resilience to low temperatures and drought, as well. For a long time Cornelia cherry has thrived in this region, so it got adapted and become resistant to biotic and abiotic influences. Their natural resistance is very important because it enables the cultivation according to the concept of organic production.

Keywords

• cornus mas l.
• abiotički i biotički faktori
• organska proizvodnja