The anniversary with new technologies

Abstract

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Sverdlovsk Breeding Station of Horticulture, its major research results in the field of plant breeding and variety studies were summarized and their retrospective analysis was conducted. Many years of breeding practice led to the development of fruit and berry cultivars valuable for northern horticulture and to the establishment and maintenance of a bioresource collection of fruit and berry crops in the Middle Urals, which serves as a platform for further attainments in genetics, breeding, and variety studies in the Volga-Vyatka region, the Urals, and Siberia. Close cooperation with leading scientific institutions in Russia made it possible to make nomenclatural standards for original apple, black currant, and raspberry cultivars released in the Urals, analyze the generative complexes in individual fruit crop hybrids, and resume the studies on the biological value of fruit and berry raw materials produced under harsh climatic conditions. A new promising trend in the work of Sverdlovsk Breeding Station of Horticulture is the introduction of molecular genetics approaches into the breeding trials (marker-assisted selection) and genetic identification tests (with SSR markers).