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(5.) The Structural Methods Laboratory under Sergei Iurii Shchyogolev, C. PM.
S. The laboratory develops methods of immuno-chemical and immuno-cytochemical
analysis as related to the problems of microbial symbiosis and plant
immunity. Original theoretical and instrumental developments in spectroturbidimetry
and electro-optics are carried out. Possible new approaches to the
application of electro-optical effect to study electric properties of particles surfaces
in diverse systems and adsorption processes, occurring on particles are being developed.
(6.) The Plant Cell Physiology Laboratory under Oleg I. Sokolov, C. Plant Phys.
S., who was born in 1958, graduated from the biological faculty of the Saratov
State University in 1980, receiving his candidate of sciences degree in plant
physiology in 1988. His interests are in non-muscular forms of biological motility,
and the organization and intracellular monitoring in plant cells.
(7.) The Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory (organized in 1989), under Igor M.
Skvortsov, D. Org. Chem. S., who was born in 1937, graduated from the faculty
of chemistry of Saratov State University in 1959, receiving his doctorate of
sciences degree in organic chemistry in 1990. His interests are in microbial polysaccharides
and carbohydrate components of plant roots mucigel. The laboratory has
two groups:
the group of polysaccharides and polysaccharide complexes headed by Igor N.
Skvortsov, studies the fine mechanisms of plant-microorganisms interaction at the
molecular level, and
the applied microbiology group under Valentina A. Larina, acts basically as a service
subdivision for all groups and laboratories listed above. The two independent and
interdisciplinary groups--both organized in 1989--are:
(1.) The Group of Bio-energetic under Igor B. Zhulin, C. Biochem. S., who was
born in 1961, graduated from the biological faculty of Saratov State University in
1983, receiving his candidate of sciences degree in biochemistry in 1988, leads his
group in studying the mechanisms of bacterial sensor reactions, and
(2.) The Group of Genosystematics under Valerii V. Nikiforov, C. Biochem. S.,
maintains an Azospirillum collection, isolated from the roots of grasses and cereals
of the Saratov region containing 120 isolates that include strains with high level of
nitrogen-fixing activity, strains producing biological active substances-phytohormones
and lectins--are among these isolates. Since 1980, Vladimir V.
Ignatov, D. Bio. S., has been Director of this institute. (Information by letters
from Professor V. Ignatov, Director, dated October 31 1991 and 27
April 1992.)
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14. Soil Science and Photosynthesis Institute in Pushchino
Located at Puschino, 142292, Moscow region. Directed by Professor
Valentin I. Kefeli. Telephone: 923-35-58.
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