Scope of activites:
- Breeding of new cultivars of hops and tobacco with improved quality and resistance to diseases by means of conventional, biotechnology and cytogenetics-based methods
- Application of tissue culture in genetic and biochemical studies,
- Studies of cultivated plants and pathogens with molecular biology and genetic engineering techniques,
- Disease diagnostics, pathogen identification and assessment of effectiveness of plant protection agents,
- Quality, resistance and adaptation traits studies of wide species and varieties of hops and tobacco collection,
- Improvement of production technology of selected cultivated plants (tobacco, hops, energetic plants),
- Chemical analyses of selected secondary metabolites (alkaloids, resins and essential oils)
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