Plant Science

Sergey Dolgov is the Head of Laboratory of Expression Systems and Plant Genome Modifi cation “Biotron”. During last 25 years, the technologies of in vitro cultivation of isolated cells, tissues and organs on artifi cial media have been developed for more than plant 30 species. Highly effective methods of genetic transformation have been developed for a large number of plants (carrots, tomatoes, pears, apples, strawberries, wheat, duckweed, chrysanthemum), which allow to study the activity of foreign proteins in transgenic plants and obtain varieties with economically valuable traits. Currently, the station of artifi cial climate "Biotron" researches on the plant physiology and molecular biology (studying of genes that affect the fl owering morphology of Compositae), biopharming, protection of plants against biotic and abiotic stresses, fi eld

trials of transgenic fruit trees, etc.