Nauchen Tsentar Po Bubarstvo Vratsa (Scientific Center on Sericulture, SCS)
Curator: Prof. Dr Panomir Tzenov, panomir@yahoo.com
Postal Address: 24 Mito Orozov Str., 3000 Vratsa, Bulgaria

Established in 1896 the Scientific Center on Sericulture – Vratsa (SCS) is now the biggest center in Bulgaria conducting various activities for sericulture industry development. There are presently 205 mulberry accessions in the germplasm from nearly all countries dealing with sericulture from the temperate and sub-tropical climatic zones and the germplasm that are yearly screened for morphological and phenological parameters. A total of 70 mulberry varieties of different origins were included in the morphological study, following the ARACNE proposed descriptor database. Most of them are Bulgarian varieties of local origin or selections of the breeding programme (24), introduced varieties that were included in the study are from Georgia (13), followed by those from Uzbekistan (12), from Azerbaijan (11), Ukraine (6), Armenia (4) and from Romania (1).