Alisio 15 ®: new early peach cultivar for fresh fruit market
The info on this new cultivar was published last February on HortScience journal.
The scientists explain that Alisio 15® resulted from a cross made in Murcia as part of the IMIDA-NOVAMED breeding program with the aim of breeding new early-ripening cultivars with dark red skin, good size, and high sugar content as an improvement over other early cultivars currently available. Alisio 15® combines very early-season ripening, extensive red-blushed skin, and a very good eating quality fruit.
Few peach cultivars in the Mediterranean area are marketable in the very early season (mid-April to early May) and the EU demand for early-maturing peaches exceeds the supply. For these reasons, Alisio 15® has the potential to contribute to the supply of fresh fruit and provide an improvement in the quality of early fruit.
Source: Carrillo-Navarro A., Guevara-Gazquez A., Pérez-Jiménez M., Ruiz-Garcia L., Cos-Terrer J., "Alisio 15®: an early-maturing peach cultivar for the fresh fruit market", February 2015, HortScience, Vol. 50(2), pages 312-314.
http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/50/2/312.extract