Implementation of a comprehensive scientific and technical project “Breeding and seed production of new domestic potato varieties of Ural breeding for various purposes” in the Middle Urals

Abstract

A comprehensive scientific and technical project “Breeding and seed production of new domestic potato varieties of Ural breeding for various purposes” has been implemented on the territory of the Sverdlovsk Region since 2018. Customer: Breeding and seed-growing company “Uralsky Kartofel (Ural potato)”. Participants: Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education “Ural State Agrarian University”, Ural Research Institute of Agriculture - branch of Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Ural Federal Agrarian Research Center of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Joint Stock Company Agroindustrial Complex “Belorechenskiy”, Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education “Ural State Agrarian University”. Based on the use of modern equipment for microclonal reproduction and diagnostics of pathogens using PCR analysis and robotic DNA technologies, the production of original, elite seed material of domestic (Ural) potato varieties has been established. During the period of the project implementation, new competitive potato varieties Terra and Alaska were registered. Laboratory and field studies were carried out and new data were obtained on the development of elements of the growing technology for elite seed potatoes on the basis of LLC BSC “Uralsky Kartofel” and JSC AIC “Belorechenskiy” [5,17]. The directions of further research on the development of technological regulations for seed production and the Ural technology of cultivation of original, elite and reproductive planting material are determined. The work was carried out within the framework of the subprogram “Development of potato breeding and seed production in the Russian Federation”.