Eight primocane fruiting red raspberry cultivars grown at the Experimental station “Radmilovac”, a collective raspberry orchard of the Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University, were harvested in 2008 and 2009. | J. M. MILIVOJEVIĆ, M. D. NIKOLIĆ, J. J. DRAGIŠIĆ MAKSIMOVIĆ, D. D. RADIVOJEVIĆ Research Article Turk J Agric For 35 (2011) 289-296 © TÜBİTAK doi: Generative and fruit quality characteristics of primocane fruiting red raspberry cultivars Jasminka M. MILIVOJEVIĆ1,*, Mihailo D. NIKOLIĆ2, Jelena J. DRAGIŠIĆ MAKSIMOVIĆ3, Dragan D. RADIVOJEVIĆ4 1 Department of Fruit Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun - SERBIA 2 Department of Fruit Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun - SERBIA 3 Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Kneza Viseslava 1a, 11030 Belgrade - SERBIA 4 Department of Fruit Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Zemun - SERBIA Received: Abstract: Eight primocane fruiting red raspberry cultivars grown at the Experimental station “Radmilovac”, a collective raspberry orchard of the Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University, were harvested in 2008 and 2009. The cultivars evaluated were ‘Autumn Bliss’, ‘Lyulin’, ‘Polana’, ‘Polka’, ‘Himbo Top’, ‘Ruby’, ‘Rossana’, and ‘Heritage’. All cultivars were evaluated for their standard parameters of productivity (number of fruiting laterals and fruit per primocane, both yield per primocane and per meter of hedgerow) and fruit quality (fruit weight, number of drupelets per fruit, soluble solids content, and titratable acidity), and also of nutritional value (Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC) and Total Phenolics (TPH)). The cultivars differed in terms of generative characteristics in both experimental years. In the 1st studied year, ‘Rossana’ expressed the lowest values of all generative characteristics, whereas ‘Heritage’ yielded much higher per primocane and meter of hedgerow ( g and kg, respectively). An increase of cropping potential in all studied cultivars was recorded in the 2nd year of the experiment. A similar trend was observed with fruit .
