The Central Botanical Garden offers consumers mini-seedlings of economically useful plants obtained in vitro culture under a manufacturing agreement and/or a license agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

In the interests of the country's agricultural sector, technologies for accelerated replication of competitive species and varieties of economically useful plants as import-substituting products have been developed and are being improved.

Scope - agro-industrial complex and food security, ornamental gardening.

The prospects for implementing the development are due to the peculiarities of the formation and functioning of the flower and ornamental products market - the supply of domestic producers of products is significantly less than the demand - which opens up broad opportunities for expanding the sales market for import-substituting plant products.

Based on a marketing study of the external and internal markets, the range of high blueberries, honeysuckle and raspberries has been expanded, and new varieties of these crops have been introduced into in vitro culture. For the purposes of industrial landscaping, 18 varieties of perennial ornamental plants (rose, hydrangea, ornamental deciduous shrubs, garden chrysanthemum, etc.) have been introduced into in vitro culture.

Information is posted in  Album of promising developments of the NAS of Belarus organizations for the real sector of the economy (2023), p. 260-261. (in Russian)

The technology of clonal micropropagation of economically useful plants in sterile culture provides the possibility of accelerated production of high-quality planting material of popular crops and meeting the needs of organizations engaged in industrial and home gardening, as well as landscaping. A distinctive feature of the produced and sold plant material is strict control over compliance with varietal purity.

The developed technology is environmentally safe. It allows for the rapid organization of replication of standardized planting material on an industrial scale, adapted to the conditions of Belarus. Along with the use of basic methods of microclonal propagation, it is possible to quickly develop optimal protocols for in vitro propagation for a specific taxon.

1. Method for obtaining a sterile culture of yellow rhododendron Rhododendron luteum Sweet: patent. 19261 Rep. of Belarus / E. N. Kutas, M. V. Garaninova; date published: 30.06.2015.(in Russian)
2. Method for accelerated mass clonal micropropagation of aseptic cultures of high blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum L.: patent. 22795 Rep. of Belarus / N. A. Gribok, A. A. Veyevnik; date published: 30.12.2019.(in Russian)
3. Method for surface sterilization of explants when introducing into in vitro culture: patent. 23643 Rep. of Belarus / N. A. Gribok, A. V. Zubarev; date published: 30.06.2021.(in Russian)

The Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the leading and largest center in the country for the conservation of biodiversity of living plants, a leading scientific institution in the field of introduction, acclimatization, physiology, molecular biology, biotechnology, biochemistry and ecology of plants. Research and practical work in the field of plant introduction has ensured the creation of a gene pool of ornamental and economically useful introduced plants from more than 15 thousand names.

In accordance with the Charter, the main goal of the Central Botanical Garden is to conduct scientific research in the field of introduction, botany, physiology, biochemistry and biotechnology, ecology, green construction and phytodesign, rational sustainable use and protection of plant resources, as well as the preservation of the gene pool of plants of the world flora.

The Central Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical institutions in Belarus. In 1999, by decision of the Government of the Republic of Belarus, it was given the status of a scientific object constituting a national heritage. The Central Botanical Garden has been declared a botanical natural monument of national significance and historical and cultural value. Today it is a unique natural object of landscape gardening art, combining the functions of a metropolitan landmark and an important cultural, educational, ecological and educational center.

The main areas of scientific and technical activities:
- efficient use, renewal and protection of plant resources;
- identification of physiological and biochemical patterns and mechanisms for the formation of plant resistance and productivity;
- creation of scientific foundations for the introduction, protection, selection and management of acclimatization processes and - biological productivity of economically useful plants based on traditional and modern methods of biotechnology and genetic engineering;
- biological monitoring, ecology;
- industrial botany;
- green construction and phytodesign;
- use of plant resources in industry, agriculture, medicine;
- solving problems of biosafety of biological methods and technologies.

Promising areas of work of the Central Botanical Garden:
- development of scientific foundations and practical measures for the effective sustainable use of plant resources in the economy and social sphere of the country, for the conservation of the gene pool of rare and endangered species and habitats of representatives of the Belarusian flora.
- creation of new competitive varieties of ornamental, medicinal, spicy-aromatic, bioenergy plants and projects of original decorative compositions for various landscaping objects, including interiors.
- development of effective methods for accelerated production of planting material based on in vitro culture and methods of identification and protection from bacterial and viral contamination in order to obtain healthy planting material.
- study of the genetic diversity of plants and plant communities, their habitats and ecosystems, solving issues of systematics and taxonomy using traditional and molecular genetic approaches.

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