A COLLECTION OF INDUSTRIALLY VALUABLE CULTURES OF MICROORGANISMS FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGY

Abstract

The Engineering and Technological Institute "Biotechnic" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has collected and preserve the viable collection of microorganisms, which was formed on the basis of expediency and efficiency in the biologization of agriculture. The microbial gene pool of the Collection bacterial and fungal strains of microorganisms that are used in biotechnologies for the production of plant protection products and their quality control. Microbiopreparations with fungicidal, entomocidal, phosphate-mobilizing, nematicidal, cellulolytic, and growth-stimulating properties have been created on the basis of collection microorganisms. The Collection also preserve strains that influenced on the atmospheric nitrogen fixation processes. The great interest present the microorganisms isolated from natural sources of different regions of Ukraine (author's strains), most of which are in studying and accumulating information about them. To determine the biological activity of fungicides, the Collection supports fungal test objects that are the causative agents of diseases of vegetable, grain, fruit and berry crops. The Collection of non-pathogenic microorganisms was created for working in the field of plant protection, as well as for teaching students of biology, biotechnologies, and agronomists. The collection is specialized, therefore the preservation of such unique objects is a priority task, since the losts of collection microorganisms can have negative consequences for the further improvement and development of biotechnology, in particular, the production of microbiological preparations for plant protection using the potential of the Collection. Taking into account all of the above, on November 4, 2022, the collection was entered into the State Register of Scientific Objects, which constitute national property (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ukraine of November 4, 2022, No. 1243).