Molodilnye varieties of apples of Professor L.I. Vigorov

Who among us has not heard in childhood about the juvenile apples that cured the most insidious diseases of the heroes and gave them a long life? It is obvious that the Russian breeder L.I. Vigorov also grew up listening to Russian folk tales. This is evidenced by his entire work activity, because he dedicated it to removing the juvenile sort of apples, and he did it.

L.I. Vigorov was engaged in breeding fruit-berry plants, which have therapeutic and preventive qualities. The choice of direction was not accidental. The scientist followed the testament of his mentor, Michurin, who wrote in his dying wish that he expects his students to obtain new varieties of apples that can heal people and prolong their lives.

The first thing Professor Vigorov drew attention to in his works is the presence of natural antibiotics and compounds that strengthen health in apple fruits. As a result of his research, he concluded that available varieties of apples are very rarely a cure for humans. At that time, and this was the middle of the twentieth century, there were not more than five percent of them. To the astonishment of the scientist, even in the most common of them, vitamins are important for health, and they do not fill the lack of necessary elements in the body of people consuming them.

Choosing the best in terms of the content of useful substances sorts of apples, Vigorov continued to work with them, and soon on their basis received new, having in his composition as many biologically active substances as necessary to ensure that the strength of the person consuming them, strengthened.

In those years, many scientists conducted selection work in the field of breeding new fruit and berry crops, but most of them took the path of economic interest. They were looking for a benefit in the amount of harvest, pleasant taste and external beauty and attractiveness of the fruit, and not in its usefulness. Vigorov, on the other hand, continued to insist that there are many needless apples. Where ordinary can eat ten kilograms, those that it creates, it will be enough one or two. This should correspond to the English tradition: one apple a day - and the doctor is not needed.

The desired results did not appear soon. For the sake of them, the scientist works hard all his life. Not immediately new apples were recognized by the scientific world and the public, it took more than forty years. Only nowadays, when people began to think more about what we eat and whether it will be of benefit or harm to us, the juvenile varieties of apples of Professor L.I. Vigorov became in demand not only among gardeners, but also among medical workers.

So, on the basis of their curative effect in the Urals today, clinics have been established that provide health services. The patients are prescribed as medicines apples or their juices and oilcakes. The results of the treatment brought success to the clinics and attracted the attention of gardeners to the work of the scientist. They began to plant multivitamin summer varieties of apples (such as Scarlet Crimson, Babushkino and others) in their own areas, as they were convinced that their fruits reduce blood pressure. The main stock of their planting material is now available in the Michurinsky and Botanical Gardens of the Moscow State University. Winter varieties of apples from the collection of L.I. Vigorov such as Sibiryachka, Olya contain natural antibiotics and prevent the formation of kidney stones.