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Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics
The Institute consists of 2 departments with a number of laboratories within each
department:
The Department of Plant Physiology
The Department has the following 5 laboratories:
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Laboratory of Biochemistry of Photosynthesis;
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Laboratory of Photosynthesis Genetics and Plant Productivity;
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Laboratory of Physiological Principles of Intensive Genetic Engineering;
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Laboratory of Physiological-genetic Plant Breeding;
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Laboratory of Physiology of Fruit Plants.
The Department of Genetics
The Department has the following 5 laboratories:
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Laboratory of Physiological Genetics;
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Laboratory of Cotton Phenogenetics;
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Laboratory of Microorganism Genetics;
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Laboratory of Cotton Physiology and Biochemistry; and
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Laboratory of Animal Genetics.
The major fields of investigation include
The development of theoretical principles and methods of applying the
achievements in plant physiology, genetics and biotechnology for the
improvement of the efficiency of photosynthesis, plant resistance to unfavorable
environmental conditions, selection of high-productive crop varieties, strains of
microorganisms, and stocks of animals.
The major scientific results have included:
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Research in the concept of genetic control in the formation and functioning
of the photosynthetic apparatus of plants;
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Application of the genetic analysis of photosynthesis and other components
of the productivity process in the selection of high-productive crop varieties;
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Completed research on the physiological principles of all-year plant growing
on the irrigated soils of Tajikistan;
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An original test system based on the application of the induced somatic
chimerity method for the estimation of the frequency of mutations and
crossing-over of the semi-dominant chlorophyll mutant of Arabidopsis was
introduced;
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A genetic collection of different varieties, races, mutant forms and biotypes
of phytophagenic microorganisms (wilt, black root rot, and others) was
gathered. The collection includes several thousand species currently being
studied for understanding the process of race-formation and improvement,
and for evolution of parasitic fungi in the determination of interaction
between the host and the parasite;
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A study of dwarf homostyled and cleistogamic cotton lines with a high level
of self-fertility and seed production;
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Breeding and distribution of a middle-staple cotton variety "Guliston"
throughout the Republic of Tajikistan in 1994;
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Utilization of biotechnical principles for the reproduction of virus-resistant
seed potato.
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