From 8th to 11th of February, 2009 the international conference on plant abiotic stress tolerance was held in Vienna, Austria. The problems of plant resistance to abiotic stress were discussed.

ВНИИССОК проводит подготовку научных кадров в аспирантуре и докторантуре. Обучение в аспирантуре проводится по следующим специальностям: 06.01.05 - селекция и семеноводство, 06.01.06 - овощеводство, 06.01.11 - защита растений, 05.20.01 - технологии и средства механизации сельского хозяйства, 08.00.05 - экономика и управление народным хозяйством (сельское хозяйство).

Artichoke is a very promising culture in the world due to a wide range of horticulturally valuable characteristics. Each 3 year the international symposiums take place around the world to join scientists, breeders, company managers, industrial experts. In this year, The «Bretagne Biotechnologie Vegetale» institute (France) was bidding to host the 7th symposium on artichoke under the aegis of International Society for Horticulture Science ISHS, and other institutions.

Such parameters as long storage properties, high content of biologically active substances is considered to be the basic characteristics for autumn-sown garlic breeding. It was shown that natural cold stress like cultivation in late autumn provoked an increased content of uncombined proline in cultivars Petrovskiy, Tsezar Antonnik and others.

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.

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.

On 9th -12th October, the 11th agricultural exhibition the «Golden Autumn» was held All-Russian Exhibition Centre. Agro-forum on «Agro-industrial complex is a base of the crisis management in Russia» was organized in course of the Agro-Exhibition.

On 14th September, 2009, Tatiyana Alekseevna Zimina was 88 when she died. She was a recognizable scientist in biology, agro-ecology, a very active researcher, and an explorer of Sakhalin latitudes. Doctor in agricultural science, veteran of labour she worked as a head of biogeochemistry laboratory and was responsible for plant recourses of Sakhalin centre, Research Institute of Academy of Science, USSR from 1958 to 1968. Then there was a chance for her to be a head of ecology laboratory in All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production VASKhNIL from 1975 to 1981. All her life, over 60 years, having been an unambitious patriot of her country she had devoted herself to the plant biology of vegetable crops. Her life course can be truly exemplified.