PROF. DR. NAZİMİ AÇIKGÖZ: RUSSIA'S GREAT INVESTMENT IN GENETICS AND BREEDING
Russia’s Great Investment in Genetics and Breeding Posted by Nazimi Acikgoz on 23/06/2019 In an unexpected period, Russia announced that it has allocated a large amount of new breeding technologies [1] . According to information from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the targets of this US $ 1.7 billion investment of have been set to develop 10 new varieties of gene-edited crops and animals by 2020 and another set of 20 gene-edited varieties by 2027. The main aim of the project is to develop new varieties resistant to diseases in culture plants such as barley, sugar beet, wheat and potato. Mutation, selection, hybridization and similar classical breeding techniques have been used for breeding new genotypes that are adaptable to varying environmental conditions. Recently tissue culture, gene transfer and other molecular biologic developments have been also used. But in the last decades artificial mutations by using -X, gamma and similar radioactive rays- have serv...