P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Iraj Bashiri

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Institute of Chemistry

The Institute of Chemistry was founded in 1946. It consists of 8 departments as
follows
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Technology of Inorganic Matter
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Corrosion-stable Materials
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Medical Biological Compounds
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Fiber-forming Materials
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Organic Synthesis
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Biopharmacology
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Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry
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Patent-license
The major fields of investigation include
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Chemical technological bases of complex processing of local sources of raw
materials;
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Geochemistry of sedimentary mountain rocks of Tajikistan;
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Theory and methods of concentration of useful fossils;
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Study of the corrosive-electrochemical behavior of aluminum alloys, and the
study of new construction materials, which are stable in aggressive
mediums;
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Study of heterochain polymers, including bi-products of cotton-growing;
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Synthesis of polymers with special complex properties; and
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Study of biological active compounds of natural origin.
The major scientific results have been:
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Construction of an anti-epileptic preparation "Karbatin," haemosorbent
"IKHANT," coagulator from local nepheline cyanides, offered new class of
flutreagents;
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Discovery of new aluminum alloys from which an experimental batch of
automobile wheels was produced;
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Suggested methods for receiving medical salt (sodium chloride);
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Methods for utilization of the slag field of TadAZ waste were delivered;
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The possibility of the use of pectin as a cure for gallstones was exhibited.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

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Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics

The Institute consists of 2 departments with a number of laboratories within each
department:
The Department of Plant Physiology
The Department has the following 5 laboratories:
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Laboratory of Biochemistry of Photosynthesis;
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Laboratory of Photosynthesis Genetics and Plant Productivity;
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Laboratory of Physiological Principles of Intensive Genetic Engineering;
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Laboratory of Physiological-genetic Plant Breeding;
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Laboratory of Physiology of Fruit Plants.
The Department of Genetics
The Department has the following 5 laboratories:
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Laboratory of Physiological Genetics;
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Laboratory of Cotton Phenogenetics;
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Laboratory of Microorganism Genetics;
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Laboratory of Cotton Physiology and Biochemistry; and
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Laboratory of Animal Genetics.
The major fields of investigation include
The development of theoretical principles and methods of applying the
achievements in plant physiology, genetics and biotechnology for the
improvement of the efficiency of photosynthesis, plant resistance to unfavorable
environmental conditions, selection of high-productive crop varieties, strains of
microorganisms, and stocks of animals.
The major scientific results have included:
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Research in the concept of genetic control in the formation and functioning
of the photosynthetic apparatus of plants;
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Application of the genetic analysis of photosynthesis and other components
of the productivity process in the selection of high-productive crop varieties;
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Completed research on the physiological principles of all-year plant growing
on the irrigated soils of Tajikistan;
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An original test system based on the application of the induced somatic
chimerity method for the estimation of the frequency of mutations and
crossing-over of the semi-dominant chlorophyll mutant of Arabidopsis was
introduced;

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