The Scientific Research Institute of Horticulture and Subtropical Plants Head: Dilshad Bayramova Zardaby settlement, Guba, 373171, Azerbaijan Tel: +(994 169) 537 17; Fax: +(994 12) 93 0884 Ex situ germplasm conservation: Pomegranate and stone fruits, nuts, subtropical fruits, citrus and berry crops and their wild relatives Institute Code (FAO): AZE009

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Named after A. Rajably was established in 1926 on the basis of the Eastern-Transcaucasian Branch of the All-Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Cultures. In 1995 the Institute with its all facilities was transformed into a scientific - industrial association. The first-priority trends in the work of the Institute are to devise an appropriate scientific basis of horticulture, subtropical plant-growing and tea-growing, to create and select new high-yielding fruit, nut-fruit, citrus-fruit and tea plants, to improve the technology of their growing, to improve the integrated system of measures to be taken to protect the orchards from pests and diseases.
The Institute numbers 144 people of which one is a doctor and 29 are candidates of science.
The Scientific - Industrial Association of Horticulture and Subtropical plants has the following subunits i.e. those dealing with the study of varieties and selection; fruit-growing agrotechnics; nurseries; subtropical and nut-fruit plants; introduction; information and mechanization; plant protection; agro-chemistry and physiology of plants; technology; biochemistry and fruit processing.
Besides, there is a Lenkaran tea-growing branch, an Absheron control station, four control stations in the cities of Gheokchai, Gabala, Zakataly, and Ordubad.
The Scientific-Industrial Association of Horticulture and Subtropical plants has created 200 fruit, subrtropical and tea plant varieties, with 30 varieties of these perennial plants being distributed among the districts of the republic.
As a result of investigation some olive, feijoa, citrus fruit, and persimmon varieties have fond their practical application. Some new varieties are sown in Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Stavropol Region. Since the establishment of the Institute ten theses for a Doctor's degree and 100 Candidate dissertations have been defended. The introduced varieties take up more than 400000 hectares. There the Institute's varieties are annually grown to be distributed among the farms and orchards in the form of seedlings to be sown.See The research workers of the Institute have published 16 volumes of the proceedings, 20 monographs, over 100 instructions, placards and booklets, and a great number of scientific articles the most part of which has been published abroad.