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The Breeding Program

Novel super-grapes for high-end markets

The Bazak breeding program is developing a basket of aromatic grapes - green, black and red - carrying new flavors: Muscat, mango, berries and passion fruit. The aim is added quality end to end: higher yields, fewer postharvest losses, healthier fruit, and uniqueness with real economic value for local and worldwide markets.

We need flavor, not only sweetness. Taste matters more than size - not heavy or foxy flavor, but refined flavor, of increasing importance in the EU and US markets.

Cultivars are offered for outright acquisition - and the sale carries a holistic package: advanced growing technologies, fertigation protocols, integrated pest and disease management, and postharvest technologies, with know-how transfer led by Bazak Agro Innovation.

Aromatic green grape selection
Aromatic red grape selection
Aromatic black grape selection

Breeding Goals

What every selection is judged against

  • Seedlessness
  • All colors and seasons
  • Very good Vinifera flavors
  • Muscat and fruity, tropical flavors
  • Firm, crispy texture
  • Large berry size
  • High productivity - less labor
  • Full color
  • Medium-size loose bunches
  • Strong stems - low shatter
  • Good storage and shipping

The Method

Four years from cross to cultivar

  1. 0mo.

    Cross between flowering parents

  2. 2mo.

    Embryo rescue

  3. 7mo.

    In-vitro plantlets

  4. 9mo.

    Hardening & transfer to the greenhouse

  5. 12mo.

    Transfer to the vineyard for evaluation

  6. 24mo.

    Fruit set of the F1 population (single seedlings)

  7. 36mo.

    Evaluation of promising selections (stations of 10)

  8. 48mo.

    Second evaluation of new cultivars, with partners

In the Field and the Lab

Steps in our daily work

Pollen collection
Pollen collection
Crosses following emasculation
Crosses following emasculation
The team at work in the vineyard
The team at work in the vineyard
Embryo rescue - in-vitro plantlets
Embryo rescue - in-vitro plantlets
Hardening of rescued F1 hybrids
Hardening of rescued F1 hybrids
Just before field planting
Just before field planting
F1 planting in a high-density vineyard
F1 planting in a high-density vineyard
New selections at harvest
New selections at harvest

No one buys a grape from a photograph

Visit Bazak Farms in season - walk the commercial plots, taste the fruit, and judge every variety on the vine.

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