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The South-Siberian
Botanical Garden (SSBG)
bot@asu.ru
©2008-2014 SSBG ASU
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The Department of Biotechnology
It is headed by Candidate of Botany – Tavartkiladze Otary Karlovich.
The date of the foundation of the department was 1994.
The aims and tasks of the department are working out the methods of regeneration and microreproduction of agricultural plants, rare and endangered species; making and keeping up these collections in vitro. One of the basic directions of the department is cloning plants.
The method of microreproduction with the help of clones lets receive the necessary quantity of copies of those plants seminal reproduction of which has some difficulties for different reasons. Another direction of work is based on using isolated cells and tissue for the reduction of plants of full value – rare plants of Altay. The collections of following plants are made in vitro in the department: 9 species of potato, 3 sorts of ever bearing wild strawberries; 1 sort of clematis, Rhododendron ledebourii, 20 forms of pear, 5 forms of cherry, Brachantemum baranovii, B. krylovii and Dendranthema sinuatum. The members of the department have worked out the methods of regeneration of ever bearing wild strawberries, have modernized the methods of adaptation to the conditions of growing ex vitro and also the methods of regenerations and reproduction of rare and endangered species (Fritillaria meleagris, F. verticillata).
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