Large-fruited, delicacy and highly palatable tomato varieties

The conflict has arisen between the production of "technical’, low quality tomato varieties in the interests of farmers and processers and the need of population accustomed to consumption of salad tomatoes in high quality, useful products. As far as now this conflict has not been settled. Tomatoes are among the most important year-round sources of vitamins С, В, В2, РР, А, Н, В9, pectines, valuable minerals and nutrients and also other compounds, especially the antioxidants lycopene and carotene, which determine healthy diet of humans and protect from many diseases. It is necessary to create the tomato varieties for each soil-climatic zone, which are adapted to specific environmental conditions of cultivation, thus maximizing the genetic and climatic potential of the crop. In non-chernozem zone of Russia, which is characterized by perhumidity but rather short vegetation period and insufficient sum of temperatures for such warm-weather crop as tomato, the plant breeders of Federal State-Financed research Institution, Federal Research Center of Vegetable Production "VNIISSOK’ create primarily short-season and mi-season varieties, which are tolerant to the low temperatures, short-growth (tree-type and determinant bushes) with closely placed clusters, even ripening and resistant to shot holes.