The results of evaluation of 5 varieties and 16 accessions from the collection of winter garlic (Allium sativum L.) based on the level of accumulation of cesium-137 and strontium-90 in condition of the Moscow region are shown.

The paper demonstrates  the basic achievements in breeding and seed production  of vegetable  legumes  in All,Russian Research Institute  of vegetable  breeding  and seed production  and the directions  of the development  of advanced  varieties, which are very important at this stage.

The subjects of the study were flower buds, unpolllinated ovules, morphogenic tissue of seed buds, and regenerated plants of broccoli. The data of the study are represented.

A brief description  of weather  conditions  in 2012 is shown in the areas of pea production.  The reaction  of pea varieties of VNIIS, SOK breeding   at growing  in  different  regions   of  Russia  and Belarus is described.  The results of the meetings and the work, shops  with the leaders  of a number of canning plants are summa, rized.

Data of the development of leaf assimilation apparatus of radish during vegetative period up to industrial ripeness are presented. The morphological traits of four radish varieties of South Korea’s breeding were studied.

The results of the evaluation of breeding pea samples for resistance to powdery mildew are shown. Sources of resistance are recommended.

The main direction of half a century of scientific activity of Dr. biol. of Sc. E.I. Kolbasina were the introduction of the Central Region of the Russian the Far Eastern and the study of fruit lianas: Actinidia and Schisandrachinensis.

The general tendencies  of the market development of vegetable crops of protected  ground in the agricultural organizations in the Saratov region over the period of 2005-2011 are described  in the article. Parameters  of productivity; marketability; profitability; structure  of manufacture  and structure of a commodity output; expenses  of work on 1 sq. m and 1 c production on set of the investigated organizations are calculated. The analysis of a condition and tendencies  of development of the vegetable6growing agricultural enterprises  is studied  with use of the basic indicators of descriptive statistics.

«The number  of infertile nodes»  is a stable  variety trait of pea plants, and it is directly related  to the duration  of the growing season.  To study the manifestations  of this trait in hybrid proge, nies the reciprocal  crosses among  pea samples  of  different groups of maturity have been made.

The promising pea varieties for canning with an optimum combination of elements of yield production have been selected based on utilization of geographically dispersed and morphologically different forms in progeny of diallel crossing. A comparative evaluation of the severity selection in different hybrid generations is shown, from which conclusions are drawn about the breeding value of parental forms.