РУП Институт плодоводства

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF BELARUS

INSTITUTE FOR FRUIT GROWING

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

«PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOFT FRUIT

GROWING IN THE CHANGED CLIMATIC CONDITIONS»

July 17-19, 2019

Samokhvalovichi, Minsk District, Belarus

Dear Colleagues!

We invite you to take part in the work of the international scientific conference "Prospects for the development of modern soft fruit growing in the changed climatic conditions", which will take place on July 17-19, 2019.

The conference program comprises plenary sessions and poster sessions in the following areas:

- new directions in soft fruit crop breeding and cultivar research in accordance with changing climatic conditions;

- biochemical and physiological processes in plants;

- phytosanitary condition of soft fruit crops in the unstable climatic conditions of recent years;

- diagnostic of pathogens and pathogen elimination by biotechnological methods;

- agricultural and ecological problems of soft fruit cultivation;

- production of high quality planting material adapted to the new conditions;

- soft fruit production, storage and processing technologies;

- marketing issues in the conditions of modern soft fruit growing.

We ask you to inform all interested persons about the conference and timely send applications for participation in the work and reports in the form of scientific articles.

Respectfully yours,

Chairman of the Organizing Committee                                                                     A.A. Taranov

The department of Information, Implementation and Marketing begins completing and preparing the collected articles 'Fruit Growing', volume 31, for publication from the 1^st of December 2018.

Systematical scientific research work in the fruit growing sphere in Belarus got wide development in the twenties of the XX^th century. Its beginning was connected with the creation of the first in the Republic specialized scientific research organization in the fruit growing sphere, nowadays it is the RUE ‘Institute for Fruit Growing’. It was created by the initiative of N.I. Vavilov, an academician,  on the 10^th of October 1925 near Minsk city in the state farm ‘Loshitsa-I’ of the Belarusian division of the All-USSR Institute of the Applied Botany and New Crops which was the first specialized scientific-research organization in the fruit growing sphere in the Republic. The division played a great role in the study of  the world collections of fruit and small fruit plants and their congeners. For the period from 1925 to 1931 breeds and varieties which belonged to different ecological and geographical groups and also representatives of wild and mother forms all together more than 3000 variety samples including 500 on apple tree from major fruit regions of USSR and 47 ones from foreign countries were collected by A.E. Syubarov and E.P. Syubarova.

RUE 'Institute for Fruit Growing' sells planting material of stratified and promising cultivars of fruit and small fruit crops.

With all questions regarding purchasing and material's availability please contact +375 (17) 506 64 08.

The nature of Belarus is determined by its territory location on the west of the Russian plain, between latitude 51 and 56° North and longitude 23 and 33° East, in temperate zone on the way of air mass movement from the Atlantic. The climate is temperate and continental and it is characterized by warm and damp winter, comparatively cool and rainy summer, wet autumn and sunny but broken weather in spring.