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LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN MELON BREEDING
О. В. Палінчак, В. Ф. Заверталюк

Last modified: 2017-04-19

Abstract


In Ukraine, breeding work with melon are carrying out only two research institutions - South State Agricultural Experiment Station of the IWPM of NAAS and Dnipropetrovsk Experimental Station of Institute of Vegetable and Melon Production of NAAS. The State Register of plant varieties suitable for dissemination in Ukraine for 2016 includes 17 varieties and one hybrid of domestic breeding what makes 35.3% of the total. Foreign applicants are promoting to the domestic agricultural market mainly hybrids, only some are registering varieties. The characteristic is given of created in the station high-quality high-yielding high adaptive varieties and hybrids of different maturity groups, transportable, resistant to major diseases and pests. Since 2014, is registered hybrid Dnepr F1; since 2015 – the varieties Tina and Diana, since 2016 continued the examination on suitability for dissemination of hybrid Zagrava F1. New varieties and hybrids of melons are recommended for cultivation in the Steppe and Forest-Steppe of Ukraine.