The need to continue vegetables breeding in Romania in the years 2015-2025

Abstract

mproved varieties have had a main role in the increases in yield and quality of vegetable crops. In this respect, the vegetable varieties are quickly replaced by new ones. During the last years, an immense quantity of new knowledge on the genetic diversity of vegetables and the utilization of genetic resources, breeding methods and techniques, and utilization of modern biotechnologies in vegetables crop breeding has accumulated. Unfortunatelly, în our country, we have lost a great part of genes stock; many breeding laboratories have not enough modern devices and international cooperation is not too strong. But we beleive that the breeding vegetable in our country is very necessary and Ministry of Agriculture must to grant more funds for this activity. We discuss what is possible to do în the next years in order to solve the main problems of this field: researchers training; devices for laboratory and field; breeding objectives în main cultivated vegetable species.