Scientific Papers Series B Horticulture

varieties existed in our country too but called”turkey crest”. Initially this cultivar presentedmany biotypes but after a rigouros selectionatypical biotypes were eliminated, the mainbiotype that respected criteria required by”variety” notion was maintained.In the breeding program, the main objective forthis line was aimed on ornamental use of theplant that was successfully accomplished. Thepossibility of using this line like an edible plantis not excluded but we mention that the ediblevegetative mass yield is smaller than the oneobtained at L1 and more restricted concerningperiod of time. It can be used with that purposeuntil flowering.characters variability cultivar and after theimplementation of the breeding program welimited these characters variability to a normalstate. The aim of breeding was to use the plantas an ornamental one but we did not excludeother uses, especially alimentary one. Thisplant is vigorous, remarkable by its erect spikeinflorescence intense red garnet coloured,extremely beautiful. (Figure 7). The studiesundertaken until now showed that this biologiccreation and also the previous ones did notrequire special technologies, L4 and L5 couldbe cultivated in protected grounds andornamental pots mentioning that their sizedramatically diminished in pots compared withnatural field conditions.Figure 4. Seedling details: entire plant, upper andunderside of the leafFigure 6. Seedling details: entire plant, upper andunderside of the leafFigure 5. L4 crop and inflorescence detailFigure 7. L5 crop and inflorescence detailL5-Amaranthus cruentusThis line (Figure 5 and 6) comes from the sameplace as line 4. This line was also cultivatedfrom the first time in our country since 2006.At the beginning it behaved as a large main251The main characteristics of Amaranthus lines inseedling state are presented in table 1 and themain characteristics of the plants in table nr.2: