The brief essay covers the topic subjects of Eucarpia 19 on Genetic Recourses 2009, 26th - 29th May. The challenging tasks and current trends toward exploration of Plant Genetic Resources are summarized in the article.

In truly confirmed statement for a person who is of great physical and mental abilities, these thoughts come while one learn the biography of Boris V Kvasnikov renowned scientist of RSFSR, professor

Creation and conservation of identified core collections of tomato that includes accessions with genes of agricultural valuable traits; mutants (trisomics, marked mutants with deletions, inversions, translocations); wild relatives; cultivated varieties; highly adapted local cultivars are the extremely necessary to start the nearest breeding program and genetic studies.

Vegetables are a source of vitamins, salts, acids, carbohydrates and biologically active substances which are necessary for human's vital function. Academician Pavlov I.V. asserted that life expectancy of human can be one third longer by daily consumption of fresh vegetable. The nourishing values of vegetables are composed not only of high content of carbohydrate and proteins, but also there is an extremely useful source of vitamins and ferments, microelements and biologically active substances. It should be mentioned that some of necessary substances can dissociate or transform under the thermal condition in another ones, sometime, not accessible chemical forms. Taking this into account the human's food must be enriched by vegetables that bring natural consistencies of substances. The perennial onion can be used as a vegetable with all these qualities.

It was determined that Selenium concentration in leaves of perennial onion was in the range of 161 to 201 mg/kg of dry matter. The highest concentration of Selenium was in leaves of Common Chives, and Siberian Chives. There was also shown that the plant treatment with Epin and Sodium Humate solutions caused the Selenium content was 1.2-1.7 times as much as it was before in leaves.

To reduce the expenses on plantlet cultivation stage the several vegetable production centers apply the direct planting into the soil without separate seedling cultivation. This paper describes the study concerning the interaction between early spring planting and output volume of vegetables. The Slava 1305 the cultivar of mid-maturing and Parus cultivar of mid-late maturing were also taken for the study.

25 июня 2009 года состоялось общее собрание Российской академии сельскохозяйственных наук, которое проходило в актовом зале Дома науки Россельхозакадемии под председательством Президента Академии Г.А. Романенко.

Recognized scientists in the plant protection, immune genetics and gamete selection Natalia Nikolaevna Balashova celebrates her 80th anniversary on this date 18th of June 2009. A corresponding fellow of Academy of Agricultural Science of Moldavia, Academician of International Academy of Informatization Veteran of Labor, professor she worked as a leading researcher of a laboratory of gamete selection and molecular methods; a deputy head of the All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production, RAAS from 1992 to 1999; a head of laboratory of gamete selection and molecular methods from 1991 to 2002.

Horticulture is one of the sectors of the national economy that play a key role in supplying people the food of high biological value. It is very important how this sector covers people's requirements in food of therapeutic value because it provides the basis of people health, their working capacity, high life span, and, as consequence, economic and political independence of Russia.

Genus Cucurbita includes about 30 species. In Russia the genus is mostly presented by 3 following species: winter squash (Cucurbita maxima Duch); acum squash (Cucurbita pero), they include marrow, Pattypan squash; butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata Duch).The research group of the institute has bred cultivars of pumpkin, marrow type and Pattypan squash with high yield and cold resistant abilities, resistant to pathogens. All these cultivars meet all high requirements of the market. With the use of all offered cultivars it has become possible to grow them one by another like a conveyer during a vegetative period in Moscow region.