The use of rootstock always responds to modern requirements requested by a technically developed Fruticulture, started up in Italy, and general, in Europe, from the 1960's, but had assumed an important hole with the development of the industrial fruticulture.For some species, among which particularly apple and pear, this process started before and showed up more quickly, that today it has been using exclusively cloned rootstocks. For other species such as peach, the demand of new rootstock is more recently in consequence of the diffusion of this species even in areas not mentioned at all from a pedoclimatic view. The wide range of rootstock actually available in the international market of nursery became indispensable the knowledge of their bioorganic characteristics in order to help technicians and fruticulture people in the task of evaluate their proper choice. Therefore, it is appropriate to report the description of better known rootstocks or at least those which through recently trial provided the most interesting results. That what it will be discussed in this paper.
grafting; peach breeding; seedlings; new rootstocks
