Uzbek Research Institute of Plant Industry (UzRIPI) Under Scientific-Production Center of Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan date of foundation UzRIPI was founded under the leadership of N.I.Vavilov in 1924 and nowadays it is one of the greatest scientific institutions in Central Asia, where genepool of agricultural plants is concentrated.

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development of UzRIPI

• 1924: Department of Institute of Applied Botany, Genetics and Selection (nowadays VIR)
• 1927: Middle Asian Experimental Station of N.I. Vavilov All-Union Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR)
• 1979: Middle Asian Branch of VIR
• 1991: Renamed to Uzbek Research Institute of Plant Industry (UzRIPI)
• 1992: Andijan Experimental Station foundation (under UzRIPI)
• 1994: Surkhandarya Experimental Station (under UzRIPI)

main scientific directions

• Collection, conservation and introduction of plant genetic resources;
• Quarantine control of introduced material;
• Complex evaluation and transmission of valuable features; providing material to breeding institutions;

collecting and introduction
To enrich plant genepool of the Institute annual observation of Central Asian territory is realized in the course of  Middle Asian plant collection mission since 1965.
International plant collection mission are carried out as well.
Institute's world germplasm collection has been replenished with both modern cultivars and hybrids as well as with wild relatives of cultivated plants.
Exchange of germplasm is carried out with scientific institutions and leading genepools of the world.

quarantine control
To prevent penetration of quarantine objects into the country phytopathologic and entomological control initial study of main valuable features of 2-3 thousand of introduced accessions of different agricultural crops is carried out annually.
Tested material is forwarded to laboratories of plant resources of the Institute for subsequent research.