The laboratory possesses a diverse germplasm of the pea, including a great number of original lines and genetic constructions. We have at our disposal a wide pea collection of accessions originating from different regions of the world and received from Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry. An extremely early-ripening pea line "Sprint-1" has been constructed by our group which allows to obtain up to 10 generations per year and, hence, matches Arabidopsis with respect to their generation time. We have at our disposal a wide range of isogenic pea lines, partly on the genotype "Sprint-1", differing in alleles of the Histone H1 genes, and also several such lines of the lentil and Lathyrus sativus. We have also constructed about 10 tester lines with continuous chains of markers over long regions of linkage groups 1 and/or 5 (some of which are originally induced or mapped). Besides, we have made several genetic systems based on chromosomal rearrangements which allow easy maintaining of heterozygosity or trisomy. These materials, as well as a well-experienced staff, are a useful background for effective genetic work with the pea. It can be a matter of cooperation with any western laboratories where, on the other hand, modern molecular methods are awailable, which would allow the garden pea to be one of the best genetically and molecularly studied objects among the plants, which would also allow conducting of experiments of fundamental scientific importance.