Virus-free potatoes are grown in Bashkiria

Gulfiya Akulova

UFA, 29 May 2019. /Bashinform News Agency, Gulfiya Akulova/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

In Bashkiria, specialists from the Republican Rosselkhoz Center started growing virus-free potatoes. More than five thousand seed pieces of different varieties of potatoes were planted in 10 greenhouses, and mini-tubers grown since last year were planted on the field.

In the autumn, it is planned to receive 30 tons of virus-free potatoes.

The future crop of potatoes is first cultivated in test tubes in the laboratory. In the future, in the greenhouses, agronomists protect each sprout from insects - carriers of infections, isolate them from other plants.

“Now potato seeds are burdened by bacterial viruses, fungi. For at least five years, virus-free potatoes will produce an excellent harvest and, for example, depending on the varietal characteristics and conditions, produce 12-15 tubers from a bush. Both farmers and gardeners are interested in seed materials,” said Dinara Garifullina, head of the testing laboratory of the Rosselkhoztsentr branch in Bashkortostan.

Currently, seven laboratories (branches) of Rosselkhoztsentr are engaged in breeding healthy material - in vitro potato micro-plants: in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Chuvash Republic, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Irkutsk, Novgorod, Leningrad regions.

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