Potato breeding organization in the climatic conditions of the Republic of Dagestan

Great importance in increasing yields and product quality belongs to breeding, which is one of the leading areas of ensuring the country’s food security. The need to develop domestic breeding is also the basis for the successful development of agricultural production, increasing the yield and quality of crops. The organization of breeding and seed production at the proper level will contribute to the successful development of agricultural production, in particular potato growing. The creation of promising and highly productive potato varieties of medium maturity, which will be resistant to widespread diseases, well adapted to the soil and climatic conditions of the cultivated area and stably forming a guaranteed harvest, in turn, will contribute to raising the profitability of the potato industry in the republic. It should also be emphasized that in the context of import substitution, the creation of domestic potato varieties capable of adapting to the conditions of the growing area is one of the promising tasks of all breeding programs. The purpose of our work is to create, study them in the ecological conditions of the mountainous and foothill provinces and widely introduce new local, more adapted and disease-resistant potato varieties adapted to the soil and climatic conditions of Dagestan, where the vertical zonality of potato cultivation stands out sharply. Our research uses hybrid potato populations grown from seeds of the Experimental Potato Gene Pool Department at the All-Union Potato Institute named after A.G. Lorch and transferred for further research in Dagestan, as well as hybrids of the first tuberous generation, which were selected in 2021 and 2022 and deposited for further research in 2023.