Marker-Associated Selection of Plants

The biological science experiences the real boom in development of engineered research in these latter days. All advantages of the research and achievements considered, it is necessary to note, that works on gene engineering are time-consuming, expensive and not always effective.

Use of natural nanotechnologies resulted during evolution process of living organisms and providing their optimum life cycle is more efficient. A metabolism is nothing else but a complex of cellular perfect nanotechnologies. And the regulation   of this process occurs owing to nanostructures - enzymes and proteins.

On basis of studying of biochemical and physiological adaptation of plants to environmental factors we developed a biotechnology of  accelerated breeding of new and improvement of existing cotton varieties and other crops. The main difference of our technology is that we use a natural gene pool of plants population, enriched during adaptation.

  This biotechnology allows  reducing the terms of classical selection from 15-20 to 3-5 years.  It allows renewing old varieties that had lost their initial economic characteristics.  Development and selection of adaptive genotypes from the population of cotton varieties’ plants are the basis of this technology. The marked characteristics involve tolerance to diseases, drought and salinity, frost, high oil content in seeds, earliness, inclination for natural leaf-fall, fiber output and fiber quality.  This technology is very successfully used for determination of variety homogeneity.

This biotechnology can be successfully applied to many other cultivated crops. Also it can be used for maintenance of wild flora germplasm.