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The Institute was established 1990 as an Institute of Plant Genetics SAS with preferential orientation towards solving actual problems of plant genetics and breeding of selected species of agriculturally important crops plants, forest and fruit trees. By means of implementation of recent biotechnological methods, the research activity has subsequently been extended covering also the fields of biotechnology and gene ingeneering. With regard to fact, the Presidium of SAS proved in 1998 the change of name of the institute renaming it on Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology SAS. At present the institute is routinely using a broad range of methods aiming not only in further improvement of plant reproduction, differentiation and regeneration of isolated cells tissues and organs of plants but also in regulation of these processes until the plant genome level. The objective of such an approach is to improve of some economically important traits and properties of crop plants and in increasing of their resistance to pathogens.
The Institute is involved in broad international collaboration as evidenced by its participation in such, multilateral international activities as COST (COST 822, 824, 836, 863, 843, G4), project INCO-COPERNICUS as well as in bilateral collaborations with several foreign countries (Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan, USA etc.). Important is in this respect also participation of some scientists of the Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology SAS in ruling committees of the COST projects. There exists also an intensive collaboration with universities (Slovak Agricultural University and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Technical University in Zvolen, Comenius University in Bratislava).
Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology SAS has acquired the status of a training institution in the field of plant genetics (discipline – genetics 15-03-9). There are regularly organized international symposia and conferences oriented towards the problems of in vivo and in vitro embryogenesis of plants as well as of plant biotechnology. A certificate of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic has enabled the institute to act as an institution which performs the requalification education programs under the name “Higher forms of education in the field of plant biotechnology”
The Institute participates actively in solving 8 parts of the technical project named as “Investigation and utilization of biotechnology in agriculture” under auspices of Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic. The institute regularly provides consultation and advisory services to the institutions concerned with basic and applied research. The results of research activity are publicly presented at the exhibition AGROKOMPLEX, which regularly takes place in Nitra.
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