Laboratory of Water Plant Physiology

HEAD Eduard A.TITLYANOV, Dr. Sci. Biol., Professor.

STAFF numbers 17, including 1 Dr. Sci, 4 Cand. Sci.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: Study of photosynthesis in marine plants and reef-building corals with the aim of controlling their productivity. Research into the mechanism of light adaptation of aquatic plants and corals is being carried out. The primary production of photosynthesizing organisms in various ecological conditions and the utilization of primary production in the processes of growth, life maintenance and excretion are estimated. The donor-acceptor relationships between the general life function and photosynthesis are examined at different stages of the life cycle of algae. Considerable attention is paid to the physiology and ecology of commercially valuable algae species producing agar and alginic acid. Recommendations have been given with respect to the rational exploitation of the natural commercial fields of agar-producing alga Ahnfeltia.

In Vietnam, research on the physiology and improvement of the techniques for growing of agar-producing algae Gracilaria is being conducted and the dynamic structure and production characteristics of natural Sargassum growths are being studied. Marine expeditions to the South China Sea and other areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans have been organized to study the production ecology in various species of photosynthesizing plants and reef-building corals.

Phone: 31-09-31