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.

В августе 2008 года во Всероссийском НИИ при поддержке Российской академии сельскохозяйственных наук, Министерства сельского хозяйства РФ состоялась I Международная научно-практическая конференция «Современные тенденции в селекции и семеноводстве овощных культур. Традиции и перспективы».

The high antioxidant content in fruits of tomato and sweet pepper is determined as a characteristic of nutritive value as well as medical purposes. The analyses snowed that the antioxidant activity was different in cultivars type of tomato and sweet pepper taken for testing. It was shown that the antioxidant activity in a fruit juice of sweet pepper was 2.5 times as much as in tomato juice. The maximum antioxidant activity was observed in hybrids with pink and crimson colored fruits such as N603, Galactika, and also inbred lines of pepper developed by inter-specific crossing of N624 and N1713.

At department of ecology of All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production the adaptive capacity through bean accessions has been analyzed. As a summarized result for 3 years of observation, Rashel and 6 KSI have been determined as cultivar types with high adaptive capacity for a yielding characteristic and seed production. The mentioned types have been proven to be cultivated wide spread in different growing, soil and farming conditions without any risk of yield and quality reduction.

At department of ecology of All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production the adaptive capacity through bean accessions has been analyzed. As a summarized result for 3 years of observation, Rashel and 6 KSI have been determined as cultivar types with high adaptive capacity for a yielding characteristic and seed production. The mentioned types have been proven to be cultivated wide spread in different growing, soil and farming conditions without any risk of yield and quality reduction.

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.