Using of cytoembryological research in breeding of VNIISPK (to the 170th anniversary of FGBU Research Institute of Fruit Crops Selection)

Brief information is given on the basic directions of the scientific activity of the All Russian Research Institute of Fruit Crop Breeding. The work of the cytoembryology laboratory and its importance in the solving fruit growing tasks are detailed: in apple breeding on the polyploidy level when creating triploid varieties and remote hybridization of cherry for obtaining varieties resistant to fungal diseases. The cytological analysis of micro and macrosporogenesis of initial forms gives opportunity to characterize the quality of forming gametes (male and female) and possibility to use these forms in breeding for obtaining highly adaptive varieties with valuable traits.