Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops,Maksima Gorkog 30,21000 Novi Sad,Serbia
Mini-biographyAleksandar got his BSc degree in agronomy of field and vegetable crops at the University of Novi Sad in 1998. Since 2000, he works in the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops as a junior researcher in annual forage legumes breeding. As a member of the team of Dr. Vojislav Mihailović and Dr. Branko Ćupina, Aleksandar has been involved mainly in breeding and genetic resources of feed pea, common vetch and other annual forage and grain legumes.
Legume genetic resources and their utilisation in the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, SerbiaMirjana Vasić
1A, Vojislav Mihailović
1B, Dragan Jovićević
1A, Milica Hrustić
1C, Jegor Miladinović
1C, Branko Ćupina
2, Slobodan Katić
1B, Sanja Vasiljević
1B,
Aleksandar Mikić1B, Vuk Ðorđević
1C, Dragan Milić
1B1Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops,
AVegetable Crops Department,
BForage Crops Department,
CSoybean and Agroecology Department, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
2University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field and Vegetable Crops, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
mikic@ifvcns.ns.ac.yuThe Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad, Serbia, has been involved in the activities related to genetic resources, primarily aimed at their utilisation in breeding.
The Phaseolus collection has several hundreds accessions of common bean, with a certain number of multiflora/runner bean. They belong to diverse market classes and agronomic types, with majority of local landraces, since common bean is the most important pulse in the country.
The vegetable pea collection contains about 300 accessions of diverse origin and agronomic types, notably the cultivars suitable for preservation, garden production, peeling, with high protein content, and those of sugar pea. The accessions are evaluated for maturity, tolerance to lodging, low and high temperatures and pests and diseases.
The soybean germplasm collection comprises over 830 accessions from 000 to III maturity groups. It consists predominantly of advanced cultivars, breeding lines and germplasm with special traits. During last 30 years it has been constantly enriched in number of accessions. Characterisation and evaluation of its accessions are of constant concern for its maintenance and utilisation.
The Annual Forage Legumes Collection contains about 1,500 accessions, with near 600 of pea and about 300 of common vetch. The accessions are characterised for the most important traits and evaluated for forage and grain yields, forage and grain chemical composition and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress.
The lucerne collection has been enlarged through international exchange. The active collection has about 150 cultivars and approximately 300 experimental populations, characterised and evaluated for yield of green forage and hay, plant height, portion of leaves, stem length and number, beginning of flowering and chemical composition.
The red clover collection has about 350 accessions, with the first being local landraces from Serbia and the Republic of Srpska. The characterisation and evaluation are aimed at the most important traits, such as stem length and thickness, length of central lamina, beginning of flowering, growth habit, stem pubescence and yield of green mass per plant.
Apart from breeding, the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops uses its genetic resources to promote the forgotten legume species, such as faba bean, bitter vetch, lentil, grass pea and cowpea, as well as to introduce new species, such as Narbonne vetch, white and blue lupins and pigeon pea. The preliminary results reveal great potential of all these species for yields of green forage, forage dry matter and grain and a quality chemical composition, assessing the possibility of their utilisation as food, feed and green manure.
