Retrospective of Spring Wheat-couch Hybrids Breeding in the Department of Remote Hybridization MBG RAS

Abstract

—The article presents the results of breeding in the department of remote hybridization of the Main Botanical Garden n.a. N.V. Tsitsin (MBG RAS) from 1946 to 2019. The aim of this work is to create high-yielding varieties of spring wheat of an intensive type that most fully meet the peculiar conditions in a changing climate. During this time, next varieties were created and passed the State variety test: Hybrid 56, Vostok, Grekum 114, Botanicheskaya 2, Botanicheskaya 3, Botanicheskaya 4, Botanicheskaya 5 and Botanicheskaya 81.