Timiryazevka is a familiar and a widely used name of Timiryazev Academy of Agriculture among students, professors and remains a homely place for all university mates ever graduated the academy. Annual meetings for former students from every corner of Russia including former Soviet Republics and foreign countries are hosted at Timiryazev Academy of Agriculture. On 25-30th of May 2009 the Second Alumni Congress of TAA on «Timiryazev Academy in the XXI Century: Traditions and Priorities of Innovative Developmen» took place.

Squashes and pumpkins are the vegetables of great importance not only in industrial scale but in gardening. This article presents the descriptions for cultivars of squashes and pumpkins selected by research group from VNIISSOK.

In competitive market where vegetable seeds being sold widely by home and foreign companies, it is most important to improve management in seed production branch by the right-selected places where the seed production would be realized. This challenging task is that Russian Federation has various climatic and soil zones with different level of economic state.

In current-used agricultural techniques, the global financial crisis brings to light defects concerning high ecological risks and low economic effectiveness which is connected with climatic changes, energy sector and engineering specifications. In this work it is suggested a grow light cultivation to be a new approach for overcoming the ineffectiveness of some current agricultural techniques. Grow light cultivation is a way to maximize the potentiality enclosed in plant yield abilities.

The tested tomato cultivars had been bred and adapted to environmental factors with regard to open field cultivation in Nonchernozem zone of Russia. Agriculturally valuable traits were studied in many regions: Astrakhan, Volgograd, Belgorod, Primorie krai, and also in Uzbekistan, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia. Results that had been analyzed provided information concerning the ecological cultivar sustainable adaptation and required biodiversity. Russian tomato cultivars that possessed high adaptation characteristics were tested for 2 years in open field conditions of Bulgaria and Russia.

Practical and scientific section on «Present status and prospects in garden pea breeding program and seed management» was held at All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production. The problems concerning of home pea production and processing were discussed. The leading experts in pea breeding from different institutions of Russian Academy of Agricultural Science (Research institute of Plant Growing, Vavilove Institute of Plant Industry, Lomonosov State University, Research Institute of Canning Industry, etc.) joined together to share experience and prospects.

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.

This year, February, 12th marks a 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. It has already been 150 year since he published his work on the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle of Life

National park like Solovky Islands is a one of the example of distant North region in Russia where for a past and present time there has been the history of collecting plants for different proposes such as cultivation, ornamentation. Orthodoxy monasteries where were first attempts at vegetable growing were made, since then they have still maintained cultural plant growing. The first historical record on gardening in Russia came from XI-XII century as chronicles showed. In June, 2008 the group from All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production chanced to visit this region refreshing the information about this distant-located and beautiful place.

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.