On the origin of the plum cultivars 'Cacaks Beauty', 'Cacaks Best', 'Cacaks Early' and 'Cacaks Fruitful' as investigated by the inheritance of randomamplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fragments

Parentage analysis was performed on the plum cultivars 'Cacaks Beauty', 'Ca caks Best', 'Cacaks Early' and 'Cacaks Fruitful' using the RAPD-technique w ith 26 decamer primers. The cross combination 'Stanley' x 'Pozegaca' of the progeny 'Cacaks Fruitful' could be confirmed and the data were in agreemen t with those of the breeders Paunovic et al. (1974). For the cultivars 'Cac aks Beauty', 'Cacaks Best', and 'Cacaks Early' the analysis showed a high c onformity with the mother 'Wangenheim' and the supposed father 'Stanley', w hereas the questionable father 'Pozegaca' indicated a low similarity. (C) 2 000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.