'Hortblue Onyx' and 'Hortblue Petite': Two New Ornamental Blueberries From New Zealand

Scalzo, Jessica; Miller, S.; Edwards, C. J.; Alspa, P.

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2009.810.18

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“…Although there have been numerous pollination studies carried out for the benefit of commercial blueberry farms, there is very little information available for the home garden sector. Results reported in this article refer to a blueberry cultivar bred specifically for that market (Scalzo et al, 2009). Fruit set in 'Hortblue Petite' was optimized by cross-pollination with compatible genotypes and was highest with open pollination.…”

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“…'Hortblue Petite' is a compact, smallstatured highbush blueberry cultivar, no more than 1.5 m in height. It was selected from open-pollinated seed of a dwarf tetraploid V. corymbosum in New Zealand's temperate oceanic climate and introduced as an ornamental type to the New Zealand retail sector in 2005 (Scalzo et al, 2009). 'Hortblue Petite' has a low chill requirement compared with standard highbush blueberry varieties (e.g., 'Duke', 'Bluecrop', 'Elliott'), flowers prolifically in spring, and may have a second or third flowering event during the growing season if favorable conditions exist.…”

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“…'Hortblue Petite' has a low chill requirement compared with standard highbush blueberry varieties (e.g., 'Duke', 'Bluecrop', 'Elliott'), flowers prolifically in spring, and may have a second or third flowering event during the growing season if favorable conditions exist. The berries are small (less than 1.0 g) and dark blue in color with the main crop in New Zealand harvested in mid-to late December (Scalzo et al, 2009). 'Hortblue Petite' fruits prolifically in research plots, where bees are the main pollinator.…”

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Pollination of ‘Hortblue Petite’ Blueberry: Evidence of Metaxenia in a New Ornamental Home-garden Cultivar

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Alspach²,

Scalzo³

et al. 2011

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‘Hortblue Petite’ (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) is a compact, small-statured tetraploid blueberry that was introduced to the New Zealand retail sector as a garden ornamental in 2005. Pollination requirements for ‘Hortblue Petite’ have not previously been investigated and this study was undertaken to better understand compatibility with other blueberry cultivars. Pollen donor effects on fruit weight were significant; pollen from large fruiting cultivars produced bigger fruit in ‘Hortblue Petite’, adding support toward metaxenia occurring in blueberry. Outcrossing with other tetraploids was most successful in terms of fruit set, berry weight, and yield potential. Number of viable seeds per berry was less with self-pollination and with crosses using pollen from a hexaploid rabbiteye type. The data indicated that the best yields would be obtained from using either open-pollinated flowers or a large-fruited cultivar such as ‘Nui’.

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Pollination of ‘Hortblue Petite’ Blueberry: Evidence of Metaxenia in a New Ornamental Home-garden Cultivar

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Scalzo³

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“…Altogether the cultivation of the seven parents offers and extended berry harvest season at the Wilhelm Dierking Beerenobst from early ('Star', 'Duke' and 'Reka'), to mid season ('Brigitta Blue', 'Sharpblue' and 'Hortblue Petite') to late season ('Elizabeth'). 'Hortblue Petite' is an ornamental variety released by PFR which has shown consistently high phytochemical compositions according to previous evaluations [19].…”

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Preliminary evaluation of fruit traits and phytochemicals in a highbush blueberry seedling population

Scalzo

Stanley

Alspach

et al. 2013

Journal of Berry Research

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BACKGROUND: The fruit quality traits and the phytochemical content of blueberries are of increasing importance to researchers in the field of food and health and important breeding objectives. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to gain preliminary information on parent's performances and variation of the fruit traits and phytochemicals from a small breeding population. METHODS: The breeding population was from a 3 × 4 factorial mating design, 120 seedlings in total. The fruit traits evaluated were weight, colour, pedicel scar size and firmness and the phytochemical composition included the total anthocyanin and phenolic contents and total antioxidant activity. RESULTS: Variation was found for all the traits studied in all families, with low genetic correlations between fruit traits, high correlations between phytochemicals and negative correlations between fruit weight and phytochemicals. CONCLUSIONS: Breeding population size was small and the lack of replication has influenced the statistical approach. From our observations we found 'Hortblue Petite' potentially an excellent parent for phytochemical traits.

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Expressional analysis of FT and CEN genes in a continuously flowering highbush blueberry ‘Blue Muffin’

Omori¹,

Yamane²,

Li³

et al. 2020

Acta Hortic.

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'Hortblue Onyx' and 'Hortblue Petite': Two New Ornamental Blueberries From New Zealand

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Pollination of ‘Hortblue Petite’ Blueberry: Evidence of Metaxenia in a New Ornamental Home-garden Cultivar

Pollination of ‘Hortblue Petite’ Blueberry: Evidence of Metaxenia in a New Ornamental Home-garden Cultivar

Preliminary evaluation of fruit traits and phytochemicals in a highbush blueberry seedling population

Expressional analysis of FT and CEN genes in a continuously flowering highbush blueberry ‘Blue Muffin’

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