EVALUATION OF SOYBEAN BREEDING MATERIAL FOR COMPLEX RESISTANCE TO PHYTOPATHOGENS
Soybean occupies an important place among many food and forage crops in West Siberia combining high yields with the wide variety of applications. Being a new crop for West Siberia, soybean needs a comprehensive study of its response to the biotic and abiotic factors pecu-liar to a specific agrocenosis. The most important of all biotic factors are soybean diseases. Under the conditions of West Siberia, the soybean crops are subject to contami-nation by various phytopathogens which reduce the yields and product quality: various root rots, bacterial blight and fungal leaf diseases (peronospora and ascochyta blights) as well as cases of viral blights. Various chemical com-pounds used for a long time for plant protection has many disadvantages such as the ability to accumulation and cir-culation in agroecosystems, high levels of toxicity to warm-blooded mammals, bees, entomophages and fish and, moreover, the emergence of resistant phytopathogens. In this regard, thebreeding the soybean varieties with the complex resistance to the phytopathogens became a long-range objective. The results of the field research carried from 2017 through 2020 showed two promising varieties which could be a base for further research: these were Gorinskaya and SNK 146 varieties showing reliable re-sistance to the downy mildew and a tendency to the re-sistance to a complex of bacterial pathogens. Consequent-ly, these varieties may be used as a base to the other vari-eties or implemented in production.