The Peach Museum is proposed as the first cultural, scientific and technological center applied to the field of museum display for the most important stone fruit species, peach in particular. In addition to being one of the main fruit tree species in modern agriculture, peach has been appreciated since ancient times for the delicate colors and scents of its fruit and the beauty of its blossom, as widely testified by artworks and…
The development of multisite collections with shared experimental designs is of utmost importance for the conservation and utilization of genetic materials and will greatly facilitate the dissection of genotype-by-environment interactions. Such resources are still lacking for perennial trees, facing with the intrinsic difficulties of materials exchange, successful propagations and phytosanitary…