Новый перспективный сорт табака крымской селекции Американ Ароматный

Traditionally, aromatic tobaccos of ‘American’ and ‘Dubec’ varietal types were cultivated in Crimea. The Tobacco Growing Department has an extensive collection of native varieties of these varietal types, many of which were cultivated for years in the production or were the source material for breeding new varieties. However, over the past 20 years, local tobacco growing has gradually declined and was replaced by imported tobacco raw materials. Currently, there is a trend for import substitution and local tobacco growing revival. To solve breeding problems, it is important to use the genetic potential of tobacco as efficiently as possible. In this regard, native varieties are the most valuable source material for further improvement of national tobacco product assortment. Breeding work is aimed at creating new varieties that can combine in one genotype such valuable traits as high productivity and quality of tobacco raw materials. The aim of this work was to create a high-yielding tobacco variety of traditional ‘American’ varietal type, which has high quality characteristics and multipurpose potential. Breeders of the Institute Magarach have selected a new tobacco variety ‘American Aromatny’. The article provides data on three-year study of this variety. The work was carried out on the experimental plot of Tobacco Growing Department of the FSBSI Institute Magarach of the RAS, Tobachnoye village, Bakhchisaray district of the Republic of Crimea. In the course of the work, phenological observations were carried out. The varieties were evaluated in accordance with biometric and technological indicators, plant productivity, quality of dry raw materials and other characteristics. Based on the results of the research, we may conclude, that the variety ‘American Aromatny’ can be recommended for introduction into production in the Piedmont zone of Crimea. The conducted studies allow increasing the varietal assortment of Crimean tobacco varieties.