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In the forty years of seminars of agronomists, the genetic composition of sugar beet hybrids and varieties has been completely changed, mainly due to development of different scientific methods. Every change lead to increase of genetic yield potential for important quantitative and qualitative traits, or improvement of efficiency and profitability of production. Sugar beet breeding in Institute of field and vegetative crops always managed to follow European and world trends, in order to create hybrid and varieties whose performance was equal to hybrids made by international companies. Increase in yield potential of 2% per year in the last few decades, is mostly due to genotype improvement, which presents huge success of scientists involved in sugar beet genetics and breeding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]