Directions of scientific activity

The main directions of fundamental, exploratory and applied scientific research (state task)

Section I. Economics and land relations

Subsection 1. Modern economic theory and principles of development of the country’s agro-industrial complex in the context of globalization and integration processes in the global economy

Subsection 2. Theory and mechanisms of the formation of a new social paradigm for the sustainable development of rural areas

Section 2. Agriculture

Subsection 5. Theory, criteria and indicators of natural and anthropogenic transformation of soils in various natural and climatic zones of Russia in order to preserve and rationally use soil fertility and produce high-quality crop production under conditions of technogenesis and climate change

Subdivision 4. Fundamental foundations for the creation of new generation agriculture and agrotechnologies, with the aim of preserving and reproducing soil fertility, efficient use of the natural resource potential of agrolandscapes, and production of a given quantity and quality of agricultural products

Subsection 6. Molecular — genetic bases of integration of microorganisms and plants with the purpose of creation of effective vegetative-microbial systems and new biopreparations with semi-functional properties, providing optimal nutrition of plants, high productivity and quality of products

IV. Crop production

Subsection 10. Search, mobilization and conservation of the genetic resources of cultivated plants and their wild relatives in order to study, conserve and use biodiversity of the forms of cultivated plants

Subsection 11. Fundamental problems of the development of agricultural biotechnology in order to create new highly productive forms of cultivated plants resistant to unfavorable abiotic and biotic factors of the environment

Subsection 13. Theory and principles of development and formation of technologies for cultivation of economically significant crops for the purpose of designing highly productive agrophytocenoses and agroecosystems

V. Plant protection and biotechnology

Subsection 14. Actual problems of creating systems for monitoring, forecasting and assessing the phytosanitary condition of new generation agrolandscapes in order to improve the effectiveness of protective measures and reduce their costs

VI. Zootechnics

Subsection 18. Study of the mobilization and conservation of animal and bird genetic resources for use in the selection process

Subsection 19. Theoretical bases of molecular genetic methods of management of selection process with the purpose of creation of new genotypes of animals, birds, fish and insects with economic-valuable traits, their keeping and feeding systems

VII. Veterinary Medicine

Subsection 21. Actual problems of security and countering bioterrorism

Subsection 22. Molecular biological and nanobiotechnological methods for creating new generation biologics, technologies and methods of their application with the purpose of combating especially dangerous infectious, parasitic and non-contagious animal diseases

VIII. Mechanization, electrification and automation

Subsection 24. Fundamental problems and principles of development of intensive machine technologies and energy-saturated new generation equipment for the production of basic food groups

IX. Department of storage and processing of agricultural products

Subsection 27. Theoretical foundations and principles for the development of processes and technologies for the production of food ingredients, compositions, protein concentrates and biologically active additives of a functional orientation in order to reduce the loss of significant diseases