Monthly Archives: June 2016

Directions and selection objectives

Walnut breeding is carried out according to three main criterias: productivity, product quality of fruits, and tolerance. Productivity is the defining characteristic, and all the high-yielding forms are to be identified and counted according to it. High-yielding form of low crop commodity quality of breeding are to be applied for...
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Chemical composition

All parts of the plant contain a lot of biologically active substances: bark – triterpenoids, steroids, alkaloids, vitamin C, tannins, quinones (juglone, etc.); leaves – aldehydes, essential oils, alkaloids, vitamins C, PP, carotene, phenol carbonic acids, tannins, coumarins, flavonoids, anthocyanins, quinones and higher aromatic hydrocarbons; pericarp – organic acids, vitamin...
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