Development of potato breeding and seed production in the Russia

For a long period of time, the Russian Federation has remained one of the leaders in potato production in the world, ranking sixth in terms of cultivated area (1.1 million hectares) and seventh in terms of gross harvest (19.3 million tons). At the same time, the average potato yield in Russia remains below the global average. Potatoes are the second largest producer in Russia after cereals and are of strategic importance for the country's food security. Further development of large-scale potato production provides for a well-established system for providing potato-growing agricultural enterprises, peasant (farming) farms and individual entrepreneurs with high-quality seed material of domestic varieties. As part of the implementation of the FNTP subprogram «Development of potato breeding and seed production in 2017-2030», effective measures are being taken to develop the potato industry. Competitive domestic potato varieties of various target uses have been created, the genetic diversity of bioresource collections has been expanded, a database of DNA markers has been formed for mass use in potato breeding programs and seed production, methods for diagnosing phytopathogens have been developed and highly sensitive test systems based on PCR technologies have been created, educational programs on regulatory regulation and quality assessment of seed potatoes have been developed. In the near future, the innovative development of the potato industry largely depends on the successful fulfillment of priority tasks: accelerated promotion of new domestic varieties to the market, increasing production and quality of seed material, increasing potato yields and marketability, developing processing and stimulating the implementation of effective investment projects to create modern high-tech processing enterprises with the production of large volumes of a wide range of potato products, development of the potato and potato products market infrastructure, including the creation of regional and interregional logistics centers. In the long term, the implementation of these priorities, taking into account the interests of all market participants, will allow for the proportional and balanced development of all links in the technological chain of the potato industry.

картофель, биоресурсные коллекции, молекулярно-генетические технологии, исходный материал, традиционная и маркер-вспомогательная селекция, сорта целевого использования, оригинальное семеноводство