Plant and Soil Science

The analysis of the investigations scientists of the department of genetics, breeding and seed-growing them. prof. M. O. Zelensky are conducted for the entire period of it work. The historical reference is given to the scientists who headed and worked at the department. The methods, approaches, stages of performance of breeding researches, it novelty, efficiency are analyzed. The scientific schools created and functioning at the department are briefly described. The aim of all generations of breeders was creating a new initial material, high-yielding varieties and highly heterozygous hybrids of fruits, cereals, oilseeds, corn, beans and perennial legumes, development of technology for growing seed materials and their compliance with production requirements. The scientists of department closely collaborate with the SII of NAS and NAAS of Ukraine for to perform breeding tasks, maintain scientific contacts with the institutions of Syria, China, Russia, Egypt and the National Center for Plant Genetic Resources of Ukraine (Kharkiv). The genetic and breeding methods for the creation of adapted varieties and hybrids with their subsequent DNA-certification are used and improved at the present stage of breeding investigations. The sources of frost-resistant and resistant to cold, short-stemming, resistance to diseases and pests, wellexpressed adaptive properties to bio- and abiotic factors the environment are identificating. The article is devoted to the inclusion in the university for a specialty "Breeding and genetics" of talented student youth in the university. 

genetics, breeding, seed production, winter wheat, rape, corn, alfalfa, rye, winter, beans, variety, hybrid, DNA-certification