title: Current Challenges in Plant Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Biotechnology
abstract: Considering the narrow range of the cultivated vegetable species in Russia and the worldwide trend for impoverishment of the biochemical composition of cultivated vegetables, simultaneously with globalization of the vegetable crop production, it is necessary to search for plant species and forms characterized by a high content of functional food ingredients (FFI) in their composition,. Based on the methodological approaches to the introduction of initial material and cultivars of warm-requiring 