INTEGRATED CONVENTIONAL AND GENOMIC APPROACHES TO ALMOND ROOTSTOCK DEVELOPMENT

Objective 1 - Clonal propagation of commercially available and existing novel Prunus interspecific hybrids. Objective 2 - Generation of high-quality disease resistance data for all three target pathogens and ID/retest promising novel and commercially available disease resistant rootstock selections. Objective 3 - Evaluate key commercially available clonal rootstocks and the novel elite rootstock genotypes as ⿿finished� trees (i.e. grafted to Nonpareil and Monterey) for their disease resistance phenotypes using supplemental pathogen inoculations under field/greenhouse conditions.