Wild fruit germplasm resources in Shanxi province

Wild fruit resources are much important resources of germplasm in Shanxi province. This investigation was aimed to offer valuable parents to resistance breeding, afford raw materials to health-fruit processing, to elucidate distribution of wild fruit germplasm resources in Shanxi province, to promote sustainable development of the third generation of fruits. We had done a systematic investigation to wild fruit tree resources in seven mountain ranges in Shanxi province through the field investigation, specimens collection, distribution and population of species by visual based on the Drude classification system. The result shows that there are about 133 species of wild fruit trees in Shanxi province, which belong to 16 families and 34 genera. Wild fruit resources of berry, drupe, nut type have higher nutrition value, bigger distribution population and besuitable for mass development. Suggestions are also made in this paper for development and utilization and the key preservation objects of wild fruit resources in Shanxi province.