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- Issue number: 4
- Issue theme: Research and development
The Russian Research Institution of the Horticultural Crop Selection is the oldest pomologic institution in Russia and the former Soviet Union that carries out and coordinates the work on the formation and preservation of the gene pool of fruit and berry crops.
The Institute ensures the preservation and replenishment of the largest in the Russian Federation collection of donors and sources of economically valuable fruit and berry crops traits, which has no analogues in the world. Fundamental, exploratory and applied complex research in the field of selection and sorting of fruit, berry and ornamental plants, molecular genetics, cytology, physiology, biochemistry, biotechnology and agrochemistry, plant protection, storage and processing of horticultural products is carried out on the basis of a unique genetic collection of the field.
The Institutes achievements are the result of many years of creative search and painstaking work of the entire team, primarily leading plant breeders and variety experts.