Head of the structural unit: D.B. Bayramova, PhD on biological sciences, head scientific worker

Total number of employees: 9

Main activity directions of structural unit: 

The detection of spreading areas of perennial herbs, also seed-fruits, stone-fruits, cultivated varieties and wild forms of berries by the expeditions in Azerbaijan, their collection, preservation, efficiently utilization in ensuring of food security and breeding programs.

With the aim of preservation of ancient rare varieties and forms of the fruits, enrichment of the gene pool creating of fruit seeding, restoring and increasing of local varieties, establishing of gene pool-collection garden, studying and evaluating their biological-agronomical characteristics.  

Main scientific results of structural unit:

Last 5 years by the expeditions and authorities have been detected the places of 325 varieties and forms of fruit and berry plants, 200 wild-savage fruits, they are have been identified and collected, also was established gene pool-collection garden of 150 varieties of apple, pear, quince, cherry, plum, peach, apricot, cornel, alycha, hazel-nut, currant, raspberry in 4,5 hectare field and they are researching.

It is continue scientific-research work on 12 varieties, 77 forms of almond, 1 variety and 99 forms of pistachio and 4 forms of almond will present to DSS.

Has been investigated morpho-anatomical structure of leafs of different fruit plants (sea-buckthorn, apple, hazel-nut, pear) and their pollens at the laboratory. 

Since 2009 year collaborators of the laboratory grow and increase of savage forms of different fruit plants, restore their rare varieties by grafting in Experimental Stations of the Institute. 

76 scientific works, also 2 books, 45 articles (18 in abroad), 29 theses (15 in abroad) had been published by collaborators of the laboratory during 2008-2012 years.