Today, at the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Federal Potato Research Center named after A.G. Lorch” opened the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Breeding and original seed production: theory, methodology, practice”.
The event takes place in the Moscow region, the city of Lyubertsy, Kraskovo.
The conference is attended by representatives of federal and regional authorities, representatives of Russian and foreign business circles, educational and scientific institutions and international organizations.
With a welcoming speech at the opening of the conference, the director of the institute, Zhevora Sergey Valentinovich, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke. Further, already in his plenary report, he spoke about the current state and prospects for the development of potato breeding and seed production in Russia, familiarized the participants with new varieties and technologies.
An interesting and informative report was made by a guest from Belarus, Makhanko Vadim Leonidovich, Ph.D. He spoke about the scientific support of potato growing in the Republic of Belarus, modern varieties and the genetic collection of potatoes, which is a national treasure of the Republic.
Skrynnikova Miroslava Vasilievna, Ph.D., Head of the Directorate of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Agriculture, made a presentation “FSTP as a model of effective interaction between science and agricultural business in the context of import substitution”.
Gavrilenko Tatyana Andreevna, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of VIR, spoke about molecular certification and cryopreservation of domestic potato varieties to achieve the goals of the CPSR and the development of potato growing in the Russian Federation. A lot of work has been done to create reference herbarium samples of potatoes of domestic selection, their genotyping and the development of technology for their long-term cryopreservation.
After the plenary reports, a coordination meeting was held on the implementation of the subprogram "Development of selection and seed production of potatoes in the Russian Federation." Representatives of the organizations participating in the program made presentations. A discussion took place on the goals, objectives and reality of the implementation of the FSTP by 2030.
After lunch, the participants and guests of the conference visited the experimental fields, where they were able to get acquainted with the demonstration plots of new promising potato varieties created within the framework of the subprogram "Development of selection and seed production of potatoes in the Russian Federation", ecological and geographical testing of promising varieties and hybrids of potatoes, a test plot of the field (ground) control of varieties of original and elite seed potatoes, the genetic collection of FIC potato.
Representatives of the firms showed in the field a comprehensive system of potato protection with preparations of Avgust Firm JSC, experiments on evaluating the effectiveness of using various forms of nitrogen fertilizers and foliar feeding by EuroChem in potato cultivation.
The event continues.