Director Olga Davydova, Cand. Chem.

Founded on July, 18, 1991.

Its main research areas are:

- development of scientific principles for producing and employing novel integral chemical-and-biological means for plants to mobilize phosphorus contained in sparingly soluble soil phosphates and phosphoric fertilizers;

- development of scientific fundamentals for formulating and using new agrochemicals in agriculture and forestry.

Principal achievements and developments:

- Over 20 technologies to use novel efficient environment-friendly agrochemicals based on biologically active substances, trace elements and plant protectants have been developed and introduced to farming industry (crop and fodder production) and forestry.

- Novel growth-promoting preparations of phytohormonal action have been formulated, patented and put to use; they are able to activate the processes of biological symbiotic and associative nitrogen fixation, ensure higher crop yields and a better quality of plant products.

- A technique for identifying genotypes of local winter wheat with high adaptive ability to conditions of scarce phosphoric nutrition has been developed.