<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> October 2015 marks the 160<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Ivan V. Michurin. As a scientist and plant breeder, he made a significant improvement of many fruit and berry plants, and flowers. He developed methods of plant breeding, especially regarding long-distance hybridisation of fruit plants, and promoted gardening to the north and east of Russia. He introduced some new berry species, such as Actinidia and black chokeberry, and was the first in Russia to use dwarf and semi dwarf stocks of apples. Michurin initiated the mass movement of gardeners and horticulture experimenters in USSR who changed and significantly extended the assortment and areas of fruit and berries cultivation in the country. He not only brought together a representative collection of species and varieties of fruit, berry and flower plants from around the world, but also used them in breeding by hybridization, including interspecific. He created some new artificial interspecific hybrids such as Cerapadus (cherry and bird cherry tree hybrid), and others. Michurin created 132 cultivars. Eleven of them are not only cultivated, but are also included in “The State Register of Protected Plant Breeding of the Russian Federation”.</p></abstract>

October 2015 marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Ivan V. Michurin. As a scientist and plant breeder, he made a significant improvement of many fruit and berry plants, and flowers. He developed methods of plant breeding, especially regarding long-distance hybridisation of fruit plants, and promoted gardening to the north and east of Russia. He introduced some new berry species, such as Actinidia and black chokeberry, and was the first in Russia to use dwarf and semi dwarf stocks of apples. Michurin initiated the mass movement of gardeners and horticulture experimenters in USSR who changed and significantly extended the assortment and areas of fruit and berries cultivation in the country. He not only brought together a representative collection of species and varieties of fruit, berry and flower plants from around the world, but also used them in breeding by hybridization, including interspecific. He created some new artificial interspecific hybrids such as Cerapadus (cherry and bird cherry tree hybrid), and others. Michurin created 132 cultivars. Eleven of them are not only cultivated, but are also included in “The State Register of Protected Plant Breeding of the Russian Federation”.

I. V. Michurin’S Work on Expansion of the Plant Horticulture Assortment and Improvement of Food Quality

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SB RAS, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 8/2 Novosibirsk, 630090, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

All-Russian Institute of Plant Industry, B. Morskaya Str. 42/44, Saint Petersburg, 190000, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

I.V. Michurin All-Russian Research Institute of Fruit Crop Genetics and Breeding, Michurinsk, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk 630090, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Novosibirsk State Agrarian University, Dobrolubov Str. 160, Novosibirsk 630039, RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.

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October 2015 marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Ivan V. Michurin. As a scientist and plant breeder, he made a significant improvement of many fruit...

I. V. Michurin’S Work on Expansion of the Plant Horticulture Assortment and Improvement of Food Quality

Published Online: Oct 06, 2015

Page range: 190 - 197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prolas-2015-0028

Keywords
I. V. Michurin, plant breeding, horticulture, long distance hybridisation, epigenetics

© by Nikolay P. Goncharov

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

I. V. Michurin’S Work on Expansion of the Plant Horticulture Assortment and Improvement of Food Quality

Published Online: Oct 06, 2015

Page range: 190 - 197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prolas-2015-0028

KeywordsI. V. Michurin, plant breeding, horticulture, long distance hybridisation, epigenetics

© by Nikolay P. Goncharov

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
I. V. Michurin, plant breeding, horticulture, long distance hybridisation, epigenetics