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In an increase yield and increase in production of vegetables the important role is played by Selection and Seed-growing. The Soviet selectors breed breeds of vegetable cultures for each soil-climatic zone of the country, various ripenings on times, for cultivation in opened and a sheltered ground, consumption in a fresh kind and for different kinds of processing qualitatively new breeds and heterosis forms of plants Are etc. bred also: cold-resistant, determinant, bole breeds of a tomato; keeper and ultra-early ripening breeds of cabbage, and also a breed, resistant against a clubroot; partially monoecious forms of a cucumber; breeds of carrot with the raised content of carotin; an one-seeded table beet, breeds of a beet for an early winter sowing. On 1974 637 breeds (80 %) Soviet selection have been zoned 796 breeds and hybrids of vegetable cultures, from them.

Planned selektsionno-seed-growing work on vegetable cultures in the country is carried out since 1921 when there was decision Council of Peoples Commissars «About seed-growing», signed by V.I.Lenin. In 1920 have been organised the Gribovsky vegetable selection experimental station (Institute of Selection and seed-growing of vegetable cultures), the Skvirsky experimental field and the chair of vegetable seed-growing in the Moscow agricultural academy of name Klimenta Arkadevicha Timirjazeva is founded. In 1934 branch seed-growing organisations “Gossortfond”, «Sojuzsortsemovosch» have been created.

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