The document summarizes results from prebreeding activities across multiple organizations. It describes:
1) Evaluation and introduction of disease resistance traits into apple and peach through conventional breeding and pyramiding genes.
2) Use of early flowering transgenic lines to accelerate breeding, including lines with the transgene on different chromosomes and cultivars with an inducible promoter.
3) Introgression of fire blight resistance from Evereste and Malus x robusta 5 into apple. Molecular analysis identified major QTL conferring resistance.