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metabolism and functions of phytohormones;
genetico-biochemical bases for improving the quality of cereal grain
and development of new forms of cereals raising in the Eastern Siberia;
physico-biochemical bases of optimization of plant nutrition in order
to obtain high quality and ecologically pure yields;
scientific bases for predicting adverse ecological situations in vast
areas.
List of laboratories
The Laboratory of the Plant Cell Physiology
Professor Rurik K. S A Y A E V, Corresponding Member of the Russian Acad.
Sci., Doctor of Biol. Sci.,
room No 225, tel. 46-17-80, 46-07-21 (secretary)
The studies of the structure and functions of biological membranes of plants
and mechanisms of membrane transport; development of physiologo-biochemical bases of
somatic hybridization of cells; growth of morphogenic callus and regenerants of
cereals in order to create transgenic plants with new properties; the study of
physiological bases of optimization of plant
nutrition in order to obtain high quality and ecologically pure yields.
The Laboratory of Genetic Engineering
Iurii M. K O N S T A N T I N O V Doctor of Biological Sciences
room No 112, tel. 46-09-03
Studies of structural and functional organization of the plant mitochondrial
genome in order to elaborate the principles of its changes.
The Laboratory of Physiological Genetics
Professor Victor K. V o i n i k o v, Doctor of Biological Sciences
room No 115, tel. 46-16-69
The study of the mechanisms of genetic determination of plant resistance to
stresses (hypo- and hypothermia, water deficit and weak doses of radiation).
Shock proteins of plants: physiological and biochemical functions in the cell.
Sequence of proteins determining the resistance of plants to stresses.
The Laboratory of Biochemistry of Phytohormones
Professor Kim Z. G A M B U R G, Doctor of Biological Sciences
room No 213, tel. 46-09-92
The study of the metabolism and functioning of phytohormones in normal and bacterium
transformed plant cells. Growth of plant cell cultures of different plant families,
analysis of the content of phytohormones, precursors of their synthesis and the
products of their inactivation in the cultures of normal and transformed cells.
The Laboratory of Phyto-immunology
Anatoli S. R O M A N E N K O, Doctor of Biological Sciences
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