Laboratory of genetics

Yakov Nikolaevich DEMURINYakov Nikolaevich DEMURIN

Head of the laboratory of genetics
Doctor of biology, Professor

Tel: (861) 274-55-94

E-mail: yakdemurin@vniimk.ru

The Laboratory of genetics was established at V. S. Pustovoit All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops in 1984 to study the system of heredity and variability of important breeding traits of sunflower with the ultimate goal of studying the private genetics of this crop.

The current work process is to first develop and study the trait collection, then conduct a hybridological analysis, followed by the transition to the genetic collection and, finally, further use of the obtained lines (donors, analogs) in practical breeding and primary seed production of hybrid sunflower.

In 2013, the genetic collection of sunflower contained about 350 samples that differ in biochemical, physiological, and morphological characteristics of plants. The main areas of work are related to the study of traits: the composition of fatty acids and tocopherols in the seeds that determine the oil oxystability, resistance to imidazolinone and sulfonylurea herbicides to provide hybrids of the corresponding production systems Clearfield and Express, plant habitus traits, including genotypes with erectoid leaves for dense crops, as well as decorative morphotypes.