SIBERIAN SCIENTIST-BREEDER OF FRUIT AND BERRY CROPS VALENTINA NESTEROVNA VASILYEVA (on the 100th anniversary of her birth)
Vladimir M. Doronkin, Alexey B. Gorbunov
Central Siberian Botanical Garden, SB RAS, Botanical Museum of Siberia CSBS SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: scientific activity, CSBG SB RAS, breeding, hybridization, introduction, seed crops, Prunoideae, Rosaceae, berry crops, Siberia
Abstract
Valentina Nesterovna Vasilyeva is one of the leading breeders and introducers of sunflower seeds in Siberia. All her scientific activities were connected with the Botanical garden in Novosibirsk. A number of varieties of apple, currant, gooseberry, in the breeding of which she took part, are zoned for Northern Kazakhstan, Western Siberia and other regions of Russia.
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