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• The use of rootstocks for European (Prunus domestica) and for Japanese (Prunus salicina) plums (review)

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  A. Czinege

  M. Soltész

  J. Nyéki

  Z. Szabó

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  The worldwide tendency to increase the intensity of fruit growing technologies prefers generally for every fruit species rootstocks with week or mediocre vigour. From this viewpoint, the use of rootstocks for plums are rather unilateral in Hungary, where 95–99% of plum plantations are grafted on mirobalan seedlings (P. cerasifera v. mirobalana). The score of plum rootstocks abroad is much more diversified. The present study summarises the respective knowledge referring to the literature available.