The technology for bell pepper breeding program has been elaborated for the regions with reduced heating supply. The selected cold resistance forms of bell pepper served as the basis for modeling of cold stresses and pathogen infections being studied at different stages of plant growing. In conditions of protected cultivation, there are cultivars Slastena, Kazachok, pamiyti Zhegalova and some breeding forms were selected. These cultivars can also be grown in open field conditions in Nonchernozem zone.

Materials of the presentation at the 1 st international conference on «Current trends in vegetable breeding and seed production, traditions and perspectives», august 2008.

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.

In September the 5th conference on Aromatic and Medicinal Plants was held at Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno. This University has a long history of agriculture and forestry studies. Science and research tasks combine together long term scientific programs and an educational opportunity in the range of disciplines such as agriculture, biology, forestry, economics and techniques. The faculty of horticulture in Lednice is the faculty of long scientific history since 1912, and where the scientific and research centre was then established in 1985. In Brno, there is also a well-known place where Gregor Mendel carried on his experiments with plants at St. Thomas abbey in the centre of the old city.

В период с 21 по 24 мая 2008 года в городе Авиньон (Франция) проходила международная конференция «IX EUCARPIA International Meeting on Cucurbitaceae 2008», которая была посвящена генетическим ресурсам, селекции, генетике и биотехнологии тыквенных культур. В конференции приняли участие 223 представителя из 32 стран, в том числе из России.

Vegetables definitely play a great role in food composition of a human. In countries where fruit and vegetable consumption is high, there is reduced cases of cardiovascular and cancel diseases as it was shown by epidemiological data. Vegetables bear the protective properties based on antioxidant actions of such components as vitamins, flavonoids, antozian, polyphenols and microelements including selenium, zinc, and copper and so on. The applications of stimulators of growth are safe environmental methods that can be used for improvement of yield qualities. The influence of Epin, Gumats, APIONs and other growth stimulators on antioxidant and biologically active matter contents has been studied in range of vegetable crops like perennial onion, Japanese cabbage, and bell pepper and so on.