AMPELOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION AND AGROBIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NIZINА GRAPE VARIETY

Agrobiological characteristics of grapevine va-riety Nizina is given. The variety was breeded by joint effords of breeder- experimenter Kraynov V.N. and ARRIV&W – Branch of Federal State Budget Scientific Institution «FRARC» as a result of interbreeding of varie-ties Talisman and Kishmish luchistyy. The vari-ety was handed over to the State Test in 2013. It received patent No. 7680 dated 04.02.2015 and was included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements admitted for use in 2015. The variety is of early maturation of table use. The duration of the production period for 5 studied years was 115 days with the amount of active temperatures to full maturity of berries 2673°С. The variety is characterized by high winter hardiness, the percentage of breaking buds varies from 49 to 100 %. With a total amount of minus temperature 519 0C and the absolute minimum temperature of minus 24,6 оC, bud break was 58,5 %. 90-100% of shoots were fruitbearing, fertility ratio 0.6. On a sin-gle-plane trellis, with a planting scheme of 3 m × 1.5 m, the yield from a bush was 5,5 kg or more. Ampelographic description of the variety: flower is complete, clusters of medium density, cylindrical & conical with 1-2 wings, weigh 544 g. The comb is long, the crest is green, herba-ceous. The berry is dark red-purple, widely el-liptical with a pruina coating, weighing about 7.3 g, the parameters of the berry are 24,3 × 21,0 mm. The pulp is meaty. It has moderate sugar accumulation and moderate acidity. The variety has high resistance to mildew and oidi-um. The variety is pointed out as a donor of mildew resistance. It is used for fresh consump-tion. The tasting rating of fresh grapes averages 8.5 points on a ten-point rating scale.