LABORATORY OF ECOLOGICAL GENETICS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Head of the laboratory - corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus D.Sc. in Biol., Professor Kilchevsky Alexander Vladimirovich.
Tel.: 375 (17) 2949303, 375 (17) 2841946; fax: 375 (17) 2841917. E-mail: A.Kilchevsky@igc.bas-net.by
Founded in 2005 on the basis of the following groups: genetics of microorganisms, genetics of plasmids and experimental haploidy of sugar beet.
Major scientific trends of the laboratory
Elaboration of principles and methods of ecological breeding of plants for developing high-productive, energy-effective and ecologically stable cultivars providing production of safe produce.
Genetic principles of sugar beet variability in the in vitro culture. Elaboration and application of biotechnology methods in view of sugar beet breeding for high sugar content, productivity and disease resistance.
Genetic and ecological principles of using soil microorganisms for working out biological technologies of soil remediation, plant protection and increase in productivity of agricultural crops.
Basic results of theoretical and applied investigations
Methodology for estimating an adaptive ability and ecological stability of genotypes, the environment, as a background for selection, was developed and tested. The conception of ecological plant breeding, including methodical approaches to breeding of ecologically stable, energy-effective cultivars with minimum accumulation of pollutants in produce was developed. A.V.Kilchevsky and L.V.Khotyleva have won a prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1999, for a series of work on “Elaboration of Principles and Methods of Ecological Plant Breeding”.
The following cultivars and hybrids were developed jointly with Belarusian State Agricultural Academy and released in Belarus: for open ground-cultivars Zorka, Garant; F1 hybrids – Maruska, Goretsky; for plastic film greenhouses – F1 hybrids Polymya and Dasha. A seed growing scheme of tomato hybrids was developed based on functional male sterility. In reduces labor expenditure by a factor of 11.
A bacterial agent Plantriz is widely used for plant protection against diseases. Agents for plant protection against phytotoxic xenobiotics and for bioremediation are being developed.
Regulations of experimental gynogenesis in vitro were worked out for sugar beet. For the first time gynogenetic lines, promising for use in breeding for heterosis, were differentiated by the method of molecular marking AFLP. The first diploid hybrid of sugar beet was produced by crossing doubled haploid lines of a gynogenetic origin.
TA multifunctional bacterial agent “Gen u” was developed jointly with the Biotechnological Center of the Shandon Academy of Sciences (China). “Gen u” improves mineral nutrition, stimulates plant growth and suppresses phytopathogenic fungi and nematodes.
Main publications
Kilchevsky A.V., Khotyleva L.V. Genotype and environment in plant breeding. - Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika, 1989. - 191 p.
Smiryaev A.V., Martynov S.P., Kilchevsky A.V. Biometrics in plant genetics and breeding. - Moscow, 1992. - 268 p.
Kilchevsky A.V., Khotyleva L.V. Ecological plant breeding. - Minsk: Technnologia, 1997. - 372 p.
Kilchevsky A.V., Skoryna V.V. Breeding of tomato heterotic hybrids. - Minsk: UP TVTS Minfina, 2005. - 217 p.
Kartel N.A., Kilchevsky A.V. Biotechnology in plant growing. - Minsk: Technnologia, 2005. - 309 p.
Svirshchevskaya A.M., Bormotov V.E. Sugar beet tissue culture: genetic and physiological aspects. - Minsk: Nauka i tekhnika, 1994. - 141 p.
Svirshchevskaya A.M., Dolezel J. Production and performance of gynogenetic sugarbeet lines. // J. of Sugar Beet Research (USA). - October-December, 2000. - Vol.37, No.4. - P.117-133.
Svirshchevskaya A.M. In vitro culturing of sugar beet cells and tissues for producing breeding genetic material // Dokl. NAN Belarusi. - 2005. - Vol.49, No.6. - P.65-70.
Bazhanov D.P., A.A.Bazhanova, N.L.Truhanovets, O.Yu.Urbanovich. Mutants of nitrogen-fixing rhizospheric bacterium Pseudomonas sp.418 with loss of the ability to colonize roots. // Russian J. Genetics. - 2000. - Vol.36. - P.159-164.
Bazhanov D.P., A.A.Bazhanova, L.A. Okulich, N.S. Strienok. Initial colonization of crop roots by a nitrogen fixing bacterium Burkholderia sp.418 and its Nifc and Nif- derivatives. // Vestsi NAN Belarusi. Ser. Biol. Sci. - 2005. - No.4. - P.48-50.
