Characterization plays an important role for people to know and identify fruit genetic resources. It also gives the basic materials for assessment of the genetic resources. After studied and compared the International Peach Descriptor issued by IGRIP in 1980 and the Chinese Peach Descriptor of 1990, we believe that the IGRIP Peach Descriptor has good passport data and preliminary data system, but it is short of value index in the further characterization and evaluation, and the Chinese Descriptor is short o...