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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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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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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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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.