By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times
For many years researchers of institutes under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) have been developing genetic bases to create highly productive varieties of plants.
In particular, scientists of the Institute of Physiology of Plants and Genetics (IPPG) have produced 140 new varieties and hybrids of grain crops. Every year up to 5.5 million hectares are sown to them in all Ukrainian regions and abroad.
The yield capacity of some varieties of wheat reaches the record 130 centners per ha. Selected by the IPPG, the highly productive hybrids of corn have surpassed the best specimens bred abroad. In addition, IPPG implemented 2,785 license agreements on growing of varieties of grain crops in production.
Researchers of the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics have evolved molecular-genetic methods for finding out the genes, which are resistant to fungous diseases of wheat, particularly, rust fungi.
According to scientists, only under conditions of the developed system of seed growing is it possible to realize the genetic potential of innovative varieties of plants. To this end, a network of basic farms growing new varieties of plants has been established throughout Ukraine.
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