The Institute’s subdivision specializing in genetic and cytogenetic studies of cereals was established in 1994 as the Laboratory of Grain Crops Genetics under the direction of Professor I.A. Gordey based on the merger of the Laboratories of Population Genetics (Kedrov-Zikhman, O. K.) and Experimental Mutagenesis (Volodin, V. G.). In 2005, by way of amalgamation of the Plant Cytogenetics Laboratory (Dubovets, N. I.), it was reorganized into the Plant Chromosome Engineering Laboratory. Since 2012, following the actualization of scientific directions, it has been renamed the Laboratory of Plant Cytogenomics.
Head of the Laboratory, PhD in Biology, Associate Professor: I.S. Gordey
Lead Research Scientist, Professor, Corresponding Member of NAS of Belarus: N.I. Dubovets
Research Scientists: O.M. Lyusikov, V.E. Shimko
Junior Research Scientists: Sokolyuk A.V., Mandrusova V.S., Matievskaya O.S., Varfolomeyeva T.E.
Technology for the Development of Rye-Wheat Amphidiploids with Rye Cytoplasm — Secalotriticum: Methodological Guidelines / I. A. Gordey, O. M. Lyusikov, I. S. Gordey; National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus; State Scientific Institution “Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.” – Minsk: Pravo & Ekonomika, 2020. – 34 p. – ISBN 978-985-552-901-0.
The Laboratory is currently supervising one PhD dissertation and two Master’s theses.
E.A. Sycheva, the Lead Research Scientist of the Laboratory, was awarded with the Medal of Francysk Skaryna in 2021.
N.I. Dubovets, the Chief Research Scientist of the Laboratory, was awarded with the Ignatovsky Badge of Merit in 2023.