According to the press service of the university, the breeders of the Timiryazev Academy created and submitted for state variety testing the first early-ripening hybrid of white cabbage of Russian selection with genetic resistance to F1 keel seed Priority.
Kila is a dangerous disease of cabbage crops that cannot be controlled with fungicides, the pathogen persists in the soil for up to 15 years and infects all cabbage plants, significantly reducing the yield. The only way to get the situation under control and get a good harvest in areas inhabited by the pathogen is to grow clubroot-resistant hybrids of cabbage crops. The new F1-hybrid "Prioritet" is the contribution of Russian scientists to the fight against this disease and the biological purification of the soil from pathogen spores.
The Priority hybrid is early maturing - only 90 days pass from germination to harvest. The vegetable has high taste qualities and is intended for fresh consumption. The expected yield is up to 50 tons per hectare. You can get a crop in areas inhabited by keel, which distinguishes it from the susceptible cabbage. Suitable for cultivation both in commercial vegetable growing and in personal plots.
- Breeding of new varieties and hybrids, ensuring import substitution in the seed market of Russia is the goal of the program implemented at the Timiryazev Academy for the creation and development of a vegetable breeding and seed center within the framework of the national project "Science and Universities". Cabbage "Prioritet" - an early ripe hybrid created to provide the population with fresh products, has excellent taste, good in salads. Kila is an urgent problem not only for producers of commercial products, but also for private households, so we consider the presence of resistance to keel to be an important advantage of the hybrid. We plan to start selling seeds of this hybrid after it is included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements in 2 years, - explained Socrates Monakhos, Head of the Department of Botany, Breeding and Seed Production of Garden Plants, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences.