Research Activities

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

The activities of the Institute consist of conducting researches within different scientific projects whose results have been published as numerous scientific papers in domestic and international journals. At the same time, the employees of the Institute cooperate intensively with many scientists of other scientific institutions in Croatia and worldwide. The researches are conducted generally in the following fields: forest genetics, quantitative and population genetics, conservation of genetic resources and research on the genetic and epigenetic variability of forest tree species, forest tree breeding, biomass production on short patrols, plant taxonomy, vegetation ecology, floristics, reproductive physiology (fruiting), stress physiology, nutrition of woody plants, dendrology, horticultural dendrology, etc.