• Yield and fruit quality
  • Taste and flavor
  • Tolerance/resistance level for pests and diseases
  • Phytotechnical development (pruning, growth reactions, …)


Rootstocks, fertility Advanced/delayed production (small fruit)


Sensitivity for cracking (cherry)

  • Phenology (possible to grow in our climate?)
  • Frost damage sensitivity
  • Virus status
  • Making of virus free material


Machinery and equipment

  • Application technology
  • Spraying equipment
  • Water treatment
  • Mechanical weed control
  • Mechanical thinning
  • Mechanical pruning
  • Mechanical harvesting
  • Frost damage control
  • Hail and rain protection
  • Climate control