Fruit Tree Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and

National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, Ministry of Agriculture,

National Agricultural Research Organization

National Institute of Fruit Tree Science Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries

National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Ministry of Agriculture,

Tetsuo Masuda

Tetsuro Sanada

Yoshio Yoshida

Junichi Soejima

Yoshiki Kashimura

Sadao Komori

Tadayuki Haniuda

Shichiro Tsuchiya

Kazuo Kotobuki

Nobuhiro Kotoda

Kazuyuki Abe

Minoru Nagara

Hideo Bessho

Toji Yoshioka

Yuji Ito

Masato Uchida

Kosuke Inoue

Kenji Murata

Kenichi Kitagawa

Shosuke Sadamori

Akira Yoshida

Donald W McKenzie, Deceased

Hidenori Kato

Donald W McKenzie

Disclosed is an apple tree having a medium vigor, rounded and crenated leaves, exhibiting excellent resistance to Alternaria blotch and bearing a medium size fruit maturing mid-season and having high productivity with an slightly heavy preharvest fruit drop. The fruit has an oblate shape, has yellow colored skin and has excellent storage quality. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish white, juicy and firm, and further, has a strong sweetness and medium sourness, thereby providing a good sweet-sour balance and rich taste, and has an excellent eating quality.

Apple tree 'Kitaro'

Disclosed is an apple tree having a strong vigor, rounded and serrate leaves, exhibiting excellent resistance to Alternaria blotch, bearing a medium size fruit maturing mid-season and having high productivity with little early fruit drop and preharvest fruit drop. The fruit has a rounded shape with good appearance, having solid, deep red colored skin and having relatively good storage quality, which is slightly inferior to the seed parent. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish white, juicy and firm, and further, has a moderate sweetness, weak sourness and an aroma, thereby providing a good sweet-sour balance, and an excellent eating quality.

Apple tree 'Kotaro'

The new and distinct cultivar relates to a Japanese pear tree that has a strong resistance to black spot disease and has substantially the same excellent qualities of `Osanijisseki` as a Japanese pear cultivar. This pear tree is self-compatible and bears a yellowish green fruit, is moderately sweet and acidic, and has a good taste that is suitable for a dessert pear.

Japanese pear tree named `Osa Gold`

The new and distinct cultivar relates to a russet type Japanese pear tree that has a strong resistance to black spot disease and has substantially the same excellent qualities as the Japanese pear cultivar `Shinsui`. The new pear tree bears a yellowish brown fruit, is highly sweet, medium in acidity, and has a rich taste that is suitable for dessert use.

Japanese pear tree named `Kotobuki Shinsui`

Disclosed herein is an apple tree which can be used as an apple dwarfing rootstock. The apple tree is capable of reproduction from hardwood cuttings, exhibits excellent disease and insect resistance, particularly against crown rot, Alternaria blotch and wooly apple aphid, has dwarfing capability and graft compatibility, exhibits satisfactory growth and grows to a size usable as a rootstock in one season after cuttings, and is therefore excellent as an apple dwarfing rootstock.

Apple tree named `JM7`

Disclosed is an apple tree having a strong vigor, long and narrow leaves, and bearing a slightly small fruit maturing earlier than 'Tsugaru'. The fruit has a conical to rounded-conical shape, and a deep red to deep reddish orange (ISCC - NBS) skin. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish (ISCC - NBS) white, juicy and has a moderate texture, and further, has a moderate sweet and sour taste. The fruit of the present apple trees ripen for eating and can be picked earlier than other early maturing varieties, thereby providing the fruit with an excellent market value, in particular, in mid-summer.

Apple tree 'Kizashi'

Disclosed herein is an apple tree of an early-maturing cultivar which is reciprocal-fertile with main cultivars and has a high productivity with a regular crop and almost no physiological fruit drop. The tree has leaves with yellow mottle inherited from the male parent `Akane`, and can produce a fruit suitable for dessert and with a good keeping quality. The fruit has a skin of a yellowish green ground color with bright red, and a fine, juicy and crisp flesh which has a whitish yellow color, a good texture, a moderate sweetness and moderate acidity, giving a good sweet-acid balance and an excellent dessert quality.

Apple tree `Sansa`

Growing community of inventors

Morioka, Japan

Tetsuo Masuda