Head: Oksana Y. Urbanovich

D.Sc. in Biology

E-mail: O.Urbanovich@igc.by

Key directions of scientific research:

• Development of new methods and technologies aimed at the deeper investigation of genetic processes and genes, including those of interest for agricultural crop breeding;
• Development of genetically modified (transgenic) plants with economically valuable traits;
• Marker-assisted selection;
• DNA identification and certification of agricultural crops.

Key publications:

1. Urbanovich, O. Yu., Koslovskaya, Z. A., Kartel, N. A. Polymorphism of SSR alleles in pear cultivars grown in Belarus // Russian Journal of Genetics. – 2011. – Vol. 47, No. 3. – P. 349–358.
2. Kuzmitskaya P., Titok V., Anoshenko B., Urbanovich O. Molecular variability of apple chlorotic leaf spot virus isolated in Belarus // Environmental and Experimental Biology. – 2016. – Vol. 14. – P. 121–126.
3. Kuzmitskaya, P. V., Urbanovich, O. Yu. Genetic diversity of three apple viruses detected in Belarus // Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding. – 2016. – Vol. 20. No. 5. – P. 673–682.
4. Grabelnych, O. I., Borovik, O. A., Lyubushkina, I. V., Gamburg, K. Z., Fedyaeva, A. V., Fedoseeva, I. V., Stepanov, A. V., Rikhvanov, E. G., Sauchyn, D. V., Urbanovich, O. Yu., Borovskii, G. B. Biological effects of potato plants with a glucose oxidase gene and their resistance to hyperthermia // J. Stress Physiol. & Biochem. – 2017. – V. 13. No. 1. – P. 5–14.
5. Mezhnina, O. A., Urbanovich, O. Y. Study of genetic variability of representatives of Ribes L. grown in Belarus // Cytology and Genetics. – 2017. – V. 51. – P. 441–447.
6. Urbanovich, O. Yu., Kuzmitskaya, P. V., Kilchevsky, A. V. Identification and genetic diversity of plum cultivars grown in Belarus // Russian Journal of Genetics. – 2017. – V. 53, No. 7. – P. 775–784.

Monographs: 

1. Urbanovich, O. Yu. Molecular methods for the identification and genotyping of apple and pear trees. – Minsk: Pravo & Ekonomika, 2013. – 210 p. – ISBN 978-985-522-231-8.