Abstract:Sunflower production is facing serious Pest and disease problems in Jilin province. It is one of sunflower breeding objects to develop oilseed hybrids resistant to diseases. Helianthus genus is a souroe of genetic variability for cultivated sunflower. Resistant genes form wild sunflower species could be introduced into cultivars hy interspecific hybridization in order to get resistant breeding material. Interspecific hybridization is difficult to realize because of different chromosome numbers or other reasons. It is necessary to combine biological technique (embryo rescue) with conventional breeding program. The embryo rescue methed can prevent embryo from aborting, obtain seeds from interspecific hybridization, accelerate the breeding cycle, so that we can develop sunflower hgbrids which resistant to diseases. In this thesis we introduce the embryo rescue technique and its application in sunflower breeding program. The contents include: (1) Planning of interspecific hybridization; (2) Preparation of culture medium; (3) Isolation of young embryos; (4) The small plants transfer and adaptation of green-house conditions.