SOME ACHIEVEMENTS ON BREEDING OF POTATO IN TAJIKISTAN
In the conditions of Tajikistan within more than 10 years thanks to combinations of methods of traditional breeding and biotechnology are received new perspective varietyes of a potato, and also process of reception of the improved seed material is adjusted. On the basis of a combination of methods of breeding and biotechnology are received of new varietyes of a potato: Tajikistan, Rasht, Fajzabad, Dusti and Academies of Sciences-1 (АN-1), which on productivity exceed a standard variety Cardinal in 11-71 %. The new variety of a potato Tajikistan, which planting in different areas of the Republic on the area more than 1500 hectares is especially high-yielding. Features, of this new variety still consists that unlike other varietyes of a potato in its tubers contains 3-5мг/% of the threevalent iron, so necessary element for a human body.