“CenSall” is a cultivar that can be easily consumed due to its thin fruit skin and small core. “Whangkeumbae” and “Minibae” were crossed in 1999 to breed this pear cultivar. After the first selection in 2010, regional adaptation tests were conducted in five regions (Suwon, Chuncheon, Jinju, Yecheon, and Naju) from 2011 to 2017. The selected tree exhibited a vigorous spreading form and white flowers. “CenSall” contains 165 mg of pollen per 100 flowers; therefore, it can be used as a pollinator. However, it is sensitive to scabs, and thus, cultivation management to control scab is necessary. “CenSall,” harvested in early August, had a fruit weight of 336.3 g and soluble solid contents of 10.2 °Brix, hardness of 2.4 kg⋅8 mmØ^-1, and the fruit skin color was yellowish green. The fruit has many edible portions, accounting for 94.5% of the entire flesh. Notably, only 22.7% of the seeds developed normally but fruited stably. The thickness of the hypodermis was 62.57 μm, which was half the thickness of the main cultivar “Niitaka” (113.49 μm). The cuticle developed without a cork layer, fruit skin was smooth, and it could be eaten with the peel (Registration No. 8046).

Pear (Pyrus spp.) is an economically important fruit tree that grows extensively worldwide. To facilitate the identification of agronomically important traits and provide new information for genetic and genomic research concerning this fruit tree, a high-density genetic linkage map of pear was constructed using 178 F₁ populations derived from a cross between ‘Manpungbae’ and ‘Oharabeni’. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) detected by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) developed from pears were analyzed to construct a genetic linkage map. SSR markers were used to locate the corresponding chromosome number for each linkage group (LG). A total of 1,807 GBS-SNPs and 41 SSRs were anchored to the integrated genetic linkage map. Seventeen LGs were identified, covering a genetic distance of 1,519.4 cM with an average marker density of 0.87 cM. The lengths of the LGs ranged from 70.9 cM (LG 14) to 160.4 cM (LG 15). Each LG had SSR markers from 1 to 5, except for LGs 7, 8, and 9. Our integrated genetic map of pear could be used as a basic frame map for comparative analysis of genomic structure between different pear research groups.

Interspecific hybridization is a valuable approach to generate genetic variation and to introgress desirable genes. The
objective
of the current study was to estimate the heritability and correlation coefficient of several fruit traits for three years (from 2016 to 2018) using a set of 178 interspecific F₁ populations developed from a cross between ‘Manpungbae’ (Pyrus pyrifolia) and ‘Oharabeni’ (P. pyrifolia×P. communis). For ‘Manpungbae’, the average values of fruit weight, length, diameter, fruit shape index, and soluble sugar content for the three years were 967.8 g, 109.0 mm, 125.7 mm, 0.87, and 13.4 °Brix, respectively. The average values for ‘Oharabeni’ were 268.2 g, 75.2 mm, 81.4 mm, 0.93, and 9.9 °Brix, respectively. The average values and heritability for three years in F₁ progenies were 222.0 g and 85.55%, 67.3 mm and 84.14%, 75.4 mm and 81.18%, 0.89 and 79.33%, and 10.7 °Brix and 77.75%, respectively. Among the five fruit traits we surveyed, the Pearson’s correlation coefficients between three traits (weight, length, and diameter) were highly significantly positive (over 0.8) for the three years.

A persimmon (Diospyros kaki L. Thunb.) cultivar, ‘Chosi’, which was a cross between ‘Johongsi’ and ‘Nishimurawase’ in 2000, was finally selected in 2010. ‘Chosi’ persimmon fruits were harvested in Sept. 19 in Naju, with a medium fruit size of 161 g, on average, and high soluble solids of approximately 15.3 ºBx. The flesh tastes good, with a crispy texture, and the juice is rich. The shape of the fruit is round oblate, and the skin color is orange; the appearance is graceful. Physiological disorders, such as stylar-end cracking or skin fine cracking, rarely occur in this cultivar. (Registration No. 7075)

In order to select pollinizer varieties of high fruit qualities with large sized and high soluble solid contents, ‘Nishimurawase’ was crossed with ‘Johongsi’ at the Pear Research Institute, National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science in 2000. Among these crossed seedlings, ‘00-16-121’ was selected primarily in 2007, and it was finally selected since it was worthy of not only a pollinizer but also ripen and dried persimmon and named ‘Partner’ in 2009. ‘Partner’ shows intermediate in growth habit and semi-spreading tree shape. It has plenty of male flowers and rich pollen amount with about 380 mg per one hundred flowers. The average optimum harvest time of ‘Partner’ was 144 days after full bloom and it matured around one week earlier than ‘Zenzimaru’ and three weeks later than ‘Nishimurawase’. The fruit is elliptic in shape and orange in skin color. Average fruit weight was 224 g, and soluble solids content was 18.8°Brix.