LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

The main purpose: Enhancing the crop resilience and plasticity to biotic and abiotic stress factors through understanding the genetic and physiological mechanisms of complex plant characteristics based on the use of state-of-the-art DNA technologies

Objective
  • Understudying the genetic control of adaptation and grain yield for Kazakh bread wheat based on the use of population and quantitative genetics crop breeding approache;
  • Establishment and development of first and next generation mapping populations for polyploid crops;
  • Development of recombinant lines for the identification of putative polymorphisms at the loci;
  • Improving the existing plant breeding approaches applying sophisticated experimental designs;
  • Establishing the system for the rapid identification of allelic variation in crops at the potential yield and adaptation associated loci;
  • Development of technologies for the microclonal propagation of rare and endemic forms of plant species in Kazakhstan to preserve the exotic gene pool.
Feature
  • Improving the contribution of Kazakhstan to the global food security in the face of climate change;
  • Delivering the outcomes of laboratory-based science to the farmer’s fields;
  • Development of the technology of micropropagation to obtain a clean genetic material of important plant species in the Almaty region.
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