Protein markers as a tool for accelerating the sale of maize hybrids of the Moldovan breeding for export

Abstract

In the Republic of Moldova (RM), maize occupies a leading position in the export of seeds to the Republic of Belarus (RB). The seed lots sold in RB can be accepted for sale only after the Moldovan side submits certificates issued on the basis of the SM-2003 standard by the Central Phytosanitary Laboratory of the RM and the corresponding matrices of electrophoretic (EF) passports of parental forms of hybrids submitted for analysis. The developers of the SM-2003 standard have implemented the methodological principles of this standard in the Seed Quality Testing Laboratory of the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy that led to the development of a national standard in RB, according to which all seeds of corn hybrids exported from RM are retested for the degree of hybridity in RB.