NCGR Rubus Cultivars and Selections you can search for in the GRIN database

Rubus Cultivars and Selections
Crop Subsets:

• Blackberries
  • Dewberries
  • Eastern Erect
  • Western Trailing
• Red Raspberries
• Black Raspberries
• Albino Black Raspberries 
• Purple Raspberries
• Yellow Raspberries
• Arctic Raspberries
• Hybridberries (Blackberry x Raspberry)
• Heirloom or Heritage Cultivars

• Rubus Species Maintained as Plants
• Rubus Seed Accessions
• Core Collection- The 'core' is a subset of the Rubus germplasm collection consisting of approximately 10% of accessions and representing the maximum genetic diversity of the genus.

Trait Subsets:

• Ripening Season
  • Early Ripe
  • Midseason
  • Late Ripe
• Fruit Characters
  • Yellow or White Fruit
• Plant Characters
  • Primocane Fruiting
  • Floricane Fruiting
  • Cold Hardy
  • Drought Resistant
  • Erect or Upright Habit
  • Heat Tolerant
  • Low Chill
  • Non-suckering
  • Ornamental
  • Thornless
  • Trailing Habit
  • Virus Indicator
• Crop Uses
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Freezing or IQF (individual quick frozen)
  • Mechanical Harvest
  • Processing
• Insect and Disease Resistance
  • Aphid Resistant
  • Anthracnose Resistant
  • Cane Disease Resistant
  • Crown Gall (Agrobacterium) Resistant
  • Leaf Spot (Septoria) Resistant
  • Root Rot (Phytophthora) Resistant
  • Rust Resistant
  • Verticillium Resistant
  • Virus Resistant/Tolerant

Genus: Rubus L. - U.S. National Plant Germplasm System

Interesting Repository Accessions

• Try searching for giant raspberries from Jilin, China - they're huge!
• 'Black Butte' - A blackberry released by the USDA Agricultural Research Service in 1998
• Rubus armeniacus - Blackberry species naturalized in the Pacific Northwest
• Rubus phoenicolasius - a very hairy raspberry!

Images

• Historic Illustrations from The Small Fruits of New York

Other Rubus Resources

• Search the US Plant Patent Database for Blackberry and Raspberry - Retrieve the Full Text of Patents Issued Since 1976
• Identify blackberry cultivars from their seed - a handbook by S. Wada, H. Nonogaki, and B. Reed, published by Oregon State University
• European Rubus and Ribes Database 
• Northwest Center for Small Fruits Research
• Cornell Fruit Resources: Berries - Cornell University
• Insect Pests of Raspberries and Blackberries - Pacific Northwest Insect Management Handbook
• Diseases of Raspberries - Pacific Northwest Disease Management Handbook
• Diseases of Blackberries - Pacific Northwest Disease Management Handbook
• Berry Diagnostic Tool: Raspberries - Cornell University
• Brambles - Production, Management, Marketing - Ohio State University
• Safe Movement of Small Fruit Germplasm - 1994 technical handbook from FAO-IPGRI, PDF available
• Rubus species and common names in multiple languages - compiled by Michel H. Porcher Michel H. et al. The University of Melbourne, Australia

  Blackberry

• Blackberry Production Fact Sheets - Oregon State University, Northwest Berry and Grape Information Net
• Growing Blackberries in North Carolina - extension publication from North Carolina State University.
• Growing Small Fruits in the Home Garden - Washington State University Extension
• Breeding Blackberries - University of Arkansas Experiment Station
  

  Raspberry

• Raspberry Production Fact Sheets - Oregon State University, Northwest Berry and Grape Information Net
• Growing Raspberries - Gardening Information from Washington State University
• Winter Raspberry Production in Greenhouses - Information from Cornell University