P rominent t ajik f igures of the

The Institute of Botany

The Institute of Botany was founded in 1941. It consists of 2 departments.

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  Flora and Systematics of Plants and Medicinal Plants

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  Central Botanical Garden, Kulab Botanical Garden, Varzob Alpine Station

The major fields of investigation of the Institute of Botany include

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  Study of vascular plants, their species composition, ecology, and geography;

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  Finding the plants most valuable for the national economy; and

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  Introduction and enrichment of new plant species and varieties of other

plants.

The major scientific results of the Institute include

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  taxonomical composition of the flora of higher and lower plants, their ecology,

geography, anatomy, cytology, palynology and chemical composition were

studied.

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  valuable plants were found, tested and recommended for their use in agriculture,

horticulture, and landscaping, the medicinal, nutritional, and other uses of plant

resources were studied and developed;

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  a scientific inventory of the flowering plants of the republic was completed. It

found 4,500 plant species in Tajikistan.  The investigation resulted in a ten-

volume monograph entitled The Flora of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.

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