Laboratory of Biodiversity of Microorganisms

Budget funding project: “Biodiversity and taxonomic structure of bacterial complexes in ecosystems of anthropogenic habitats and their biotechnological potential”.

The main objectives of the laboratory are as follow:

organization and implementation of the taxonomic inventory and study of the components of the microbial biodiversity of Uzbekistan;
analysis of natural and technogenic impact on the quality of ecosystems;
systematic study of biodiversity as a complex indicator of the current state of natural environments;
creation of the new information platform for the conservation and sustainable use of microorganisms, the expansion and improvement of the conditions of the existing collection of industrially important cultures of microorganisms.

Main scientific topics:

inventory and study of microbial diversity, which is one of the most important tasks in the study and conservation of biodiversity, and the organization of a system for long-term monitoring of microbiota;
constant expansion of the collection with biotechnologically valuable strains of microorganisms and the development of new biotechnologies on their basis for the national economy;
compilation of national and regional biodiversity summaries;
development of innovative ideas and their implementation in to the practice;
microbiological monitoring of environmental objects (natural and under anthropogenic and technogenic impact).

Projects

Fundamental project VA-FA-F5-012 “Microorganisms producers of nanoparticles” (2017-2020).

Fundamental joint project (Uzbekistan-Belorussia) MRB-AN-2019-22 “Nanoparticles of transition metals synthesized by bacteria as activity modulators of practically significant enzymes of the oxidoreductase class” (2019-2021).

Fundamental joint project (Uzbekistan-Belorussia) MRB-2021-536 “Processes of microbial synthesis of nanoparticles and their stabilization as the basis for technologies for obtaining new nanomaterials” (2021-2023).

Applied project А-ОТ-2021-56 “Establishment of a digital database for the restoration, reproduction, storage of a collection of useful microorganisms for industry and production” (2021-2023).

Main scientific achievements:

• Microorganisms-producers of silver and copper nanoparticles were obtained and the conditions for the maximum yield of nanoparticles were worked out;

• Studied the variability and stability of microorganisms of the collection pool during storage;

• Isolated nodule bacteria of vegetable soybean, which stimulate the growth and development of crops.

• Active microbial destructors of pesticides were isolated and on their basis a preparation for the destruction of chlorpyrifos and cypermethrin was developed.

• A biotechnology has been developed for obtaining biofuel based on natural renewable resources (plant waste biomass residues, sewage, sludge).

Patents

№ IAP 02946 Hydrometallurgy waste processing method, 03.04. 2003.

№ IAP 06299 Bacterial strain Azotobacter chroococcum with antifungal activity and destructive activity to pesticides, 23.09.2020.

№ IAP 2011 01 65 Bacterial strain Bacillus licheniformis 234 for protection of cotton plants from Verticillium wilt and stimulation of cotton growth, 10.01.2013.

№ IAP 2011 01 64 Strain Streptomyces roseoflavus 33 for protecting cotton from Verticillium wilt and stimulating cotton growth, 10.01.2013.

№ IAP 04902 Microbial preparation Verbactin for biocontrol of fungal diseases and stimulation of cotton growth, 20.05.2014.

№ IAP 06289 Strain Bacillus thuringiensis 49b as a means of complex action against insect pests and phytopathogenic fungi, 29.08.2020.