The use of heterosis is a forward direction in white head cabbage breeding program. This strategy enables to serve characteristic and yield improvements compared with best cultivars currently being used. At present time, the most suitable way to produce the hybrid seeds of cabbage is crossing between self incompatibility lines. 4-line crossed hybrids Avrora, (ultra fast ripening), and Snezhinka (mid-late ripening) with use of self incompatibility were obtained. The andro-sterile form has been multiplied by biotechnology methods and the sterility maintainers have been tested and fatherly forms have also been multiplied.

С 9 по 12 сентября 2008 года в Валенсии (Испания) проходил Генеральный Конгресс ЕUCARPIA, посвященный 50-летию этой европейской некоммерческой научной организации, целью которой является объединение и координация научных исследований, проводимых в различных научных центрах, по селекции и генетике сельскохозяйственных растений.

Modern directions of nanotechnologies, their value, in particular, for development of genomics were considered. Data about the non-randomness of distribution of some DNA motives in genomes testified in favour of the theory of Lima-de-Faria to interrelation between the structure-functional organization of a genetic material in nano-and microscales were presented.

The breeding program task on improvement human health is to provide the chemical balanced food that is required for people's life. In the laboratory of ecological methods of selective breeding at All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production with participation of analytical center of Institute of Geology RAS the research work «The theoretical background of ecological method usage for testing vegetable crops on stable contents of chemical elements into edible parts of vegetable plants has been carried out.

All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production is one of the oldest scientific institutions for plant breeding. The Gribovskaya experimental station for plant breeding was the initial research centre founded in 1920. Presently, All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production keep the traditional scientific course up which was began by outstanding plant breeder Zhegalov S.I. who then developed methods and recommendations for plant breeding. All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production are the scientific centre for research, methodology and practice in the field of vegetable breeding and seed management in Nonchernozem zone of Russia. The research core group of All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production has developed over 700 cultivars and hybrids, 447 of them were included in the State Registration List of Achievements in Plant Breeding of Russian Federation in 2008.

Breeding program at All-Russian Institute for Vegetable Breeding and Seed production is focused on Amaranth utilization as a culture for seed production, silaging as well as for food and decorative proposes. Due to this the work that has been carried on is a production of ready - made products from Amaranth particularly in case of foliage commodity used for tea component enriching and production of biologically active food additions.

Reviving and developing of pea seed production have become the task of state priority. Due to this in Russia for a demand for fresh pea there should be occupied not less than 100 thousand hectares of sowing area. At present time the seed demand is 30 thousand tons. At All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production the elite seed production is carried on for 15 cultivars. These cultivars cover 5 groups of maturity and it enables to provide the raw material of pea for processing during 30 days. The different terms of sowing used prolong the processing up to 45 days.

28-29 октября 2008 года в Международной промышленной академии (г. Москва) впервые в России при поддержке Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации ООН (ФАО) прошла Международная конференция «Проблемы обеспечения продовольственной безопасности: национальный и международный аспекты».