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Title: ‘ESQUIMALT’ RED RASPBERRY

Author
item KEMPLER, CHAIM - AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD
item DAUBENY, HUGH - AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD
item HARDING, BRIAN - AGRICULTURE & AGRI-FOOD
item Finn, Chad

Submitted to: HortScience
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/8/2005
Publication Date: 12/1/2005
Citation: Kempler, C., Daubeny, H.A., Harding, B., Finn, C.E. 2005. 'Esquimalt' red raspberry. HortScience. 40: 2192-2194.

Interpretive Summary: ‘Esquimalt’ is a new summer-fruiting red raspberry cultivar from the breeding program at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre of Agriculture (PARC) and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada. ‘Esquimalt’ produces high yields of large, firm fruit that ripen late, and is well suited to fresh market sales. 'Esquimalt' has performed very well at research stations in British Columbia and Oregon and on grower fields that are free of root rot (Phytopthora fragaria). ‘Esquimalt’ is a B.C. First Nations word, which translates as “a place gradually shoaling”, and is a city and a harbour on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The choice of name follows the tradition of naming PARC berry cultivars with local First Nations words. 'Esquimalt’, which was tested as BC 89-2-89, was selected by H.A. Daubeny from a 1989 cross of ‘Comox’ × ‘Glen Ample’. ‘Comox’, released from PARC program in 1987, was chosen as a parent because of its high yield and good fruit quality. ‘Glen Ample’, released from the Scottish Crop Research Institute in 1994, was chosen as a parent because of its high yield and adaptability to the fresh market. The origin and development of ‘Esquimalt’ demonstrates the value of collaboration and exchange between breeding programs using germplasm of diverse origins and testing at multiple locations.

Technical Abstract: ‘Esquimalt’ is a new floricane-fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) cultivar from the breeding program at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre of Agriculture (PARC) and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia. ‘Esquimalt’ produces high yields of large, firm fruit that ripen late, and is well suited to fresh market sales. 'Esquimalt' has performed very well at research stations in British Columbia and Oregon and on grower fields that are free of root rot (Phytopthora fragaria). It is resistant to the common strain of the North American raspberry aphid, Amphorophora agathonica Hottes, a vector of the raspberry mosaic virus complex. ‘Esquimalt’ is a B.C. First Nations word, which translates as “a place gradually shoaling”, and is a city and a harbour on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The choice of name follows the tradition of naming PARC berry cultivars with local First Nations words. 'Esquimalt’, which was tested as BC 89-2-89, was selected by H.A. Daubeny from a 1989 cross of ‘Comox’ × ‘Glen Ample’. ‘Comox’, released from PARC program in 1987, was chosen as a parent because of its high yield and good fruit quality. ‘Glen Ample’, released from the Scottish Crop Research Institute in 1994, was chosen as a parent because of its high yield and adaptability to the fresh market. The origin of ‘Esquimalt’ demonstrates the value of collaboration and exchange between breeding programs using germplasm of diverse origins.