THE BREEDING PROGRAM OF SEEDLESS GRAPES, THE EXISTING PROBLEMS IN REPUBLIC AND A PROSPECTS OF INTRODUCING THE GEN TECHNOLOGIES
This article discusses problems in the breeding programs of the seedless grapes, the way of introducing of the biotechnology and gene technology skills to resolve its issues, and the advantages of molecular markers to select seedlessness among the hybrid progeny of grapes. Uzbekistan is famous for its seedless grapes, but on the other hand, the grape breeding is oriented on the conventional breeding method. In other words, seedless grapes have a recessive character, a male form is using only as a pollinator, and all these factors limit to create new seedless varieties and forms. Nowadays the word grape breeders, especially seedless grape breeders use advantages of the biotechnology and gene technology skills to resolve above listed issues. As a result, except for obtaining hybrid progeny by crossing between ♂seedless × seeded ♀ that was an unchangeable algorithm of the cross combination in the traditional grape breeding. But today, researchers argued that crossing between ♂seedless × seedless ♀ is also possible to obtain a hybrid progeny through “embryo rescue technique”. Thus introducing this novel breeding program directly to grape breeding of Uzbekistan leads to an increase the diversity of the new seedless grape varieties and also for increasing the export potential of the grape industry. KEYWORDS: Seedless grape varieties, variety, cross combination, embryo culture, molecular markers, DNA.