P rominent t ajik f igures of the

The Institute of Botany
The Institute of Botany was founded in 1941. It consists of 2 departments.
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Flora and Systematics of Plants and Medicinal Plants
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Central Botanical Garden, Kulab Botanical Garden, Varzob Alpine Station
The major fields of investigation of the Institute of Botany include
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Study of vascular plants, their species composition, ecology, and geography;
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Finding the plants most valuable for the national economy; and
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Introduction and enrichment of new plant species and varieties of other
plants.
The major scientific results of the Institute include
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taxonomical composition of the flora of higher and lower plants, their ecology,
geography, anatomy, cytology, palynology and chemical composition were
studied.
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valuable plants were found, tested and recommended for their use in agriculture,
horticulture, and landscaping, the medicinal, nutritional, and other uses of plant
resources were studied and developed;
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a scientific inventory of the flowering plants of the republic was completed. It
found 4,500 plant species in Tajikistan. The investigation resulted in a ten-
volume monograph entitled The Flora of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

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the spore-bearing flora of Tajikistan consists of about 3,500 algae species, more
than 2,000 macro- and micromycete-fungi species, more than 300 species of
lichens, and 400 leafy and hepatic mosses.
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the geobotanical study of the vestigative cover of the republic was carried out;
the forestry and fodder resources were determined.
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the dynamics, structure and production of the distinctive photogenotypes on the
vertical profile of the PamiroAlaien Mountains were studied.
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in the Dushanbe Botanical Garden there is a rich collection, containing 2,300
species of trees and shrubs which come from Central Asia, the coastal areas of
the Mediterranean Sea, Euro-Siberia, East Asia and Northern America.
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the herbarium collection of the vascular plants numbers more than 170,000.