PRESERVING SANITIZED PLANTS OF BLACK CURRANT IN ORDER TO CREATE GENETIC BANKS

The paper presents the results on the development and preservation of black currant promising cultivars from the genetic collection of the given institution, using cultivar samples that are bred by the leading Russian scientific institutions. There was started a research on creating and maintaining Ríbes L. collection in vitro; at the moment, depositing technology is being practiced. Currently, our collection fund has 31 black currant cultivars, 10 of which are introduced into in vitro. The creation of in vitro bank not only helps to develop the research on preserving plant biodiversity, but also is the basis for studying fundamental problems in plants physiology and biochemistry, including genetic and breeding works