Genetic resources are the base for improving the assortment of sweet cherry and large fruit cherry plum

The article presents the results of research on genetic resources sweet cherry and plum in Nikita Botanical Gardens - National Scientific Center. Cultivars which are sources donors valuable economical biological traits: late flowering, its duration, winter hardiness, drought resistance, large-fruited, very early ripening fruit taste, resistance to cracking fruits have been identified. In order create highly productive cultivars breeding forms resistant abiotic factors, traits from collections were used, significantly increased efficiency process. gene pool includes more than 300 genotypes 400 plums. New promising They allow updating conveyor for obtaining high-quality southern zone horticulture. Ten cherry: Uslada, Prizerka, Vesnyany Naspivy, Pikovaya Dama, Kutuzovka, Chernokrymka, Vitivnitsa, Znatnaya, Zarya Vostoka, Karadag six plum: Andromeda, Desertnaya Rannaya, Obil’naya, Femida, Rumyanaya Zor’ka included State register Crimea Russia. Four cultivars: Kudesnitsa, Ocharovanie, Triumf, Dolgojdannaya one cultivar: Feeriya, undergoing a state test. Five new three plum, surpass zoned complex characteristics, originated. patents received these cultivars. A number elite advantages over existing cultivars,