The teachers and the scientists of the Nature and Geography Department carry out a number of applied researches related to the evaluation of the genetic consequences of anthropogenic pollution on the territory of Ukraine. Among the places of interest the 30-km alienation zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was in the special focus of the scientists. Under the guidance of Ruslan Yakymchuk, the Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, and support of Igor Chyzhevsky, the Candidate of Biological Sciences, the research scientist of the “Chernobylskiy Spatskombinat”special-purpose state enterprise the students have been studying the risks of genetic changes of life forms that had experienced the harmful influence of artificial radio nuclides on the example of autumn wheat for many years.

Photo: Near the Fouth Power Generation Plant of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station

Photo: Gathering the wheatears in the 10 km zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station

Today, for academic writing of Master Theses the mutant plants are studied on the special research fields of the Agrobiostation of our University.

Photo: The records on the mutant plants on the research fields of the Agrobiostation.

The participants of “the extreme mutagenesis” scientific research group not only track down the specifics and regularities in inheriting the new qualities in the following generations but also determine the useful selective changes that can be used to create the new species of wheat cultures.

Photo: Thrashing the wheatears is exercised by the students of “the extreme mutagenesis” scientific research group.

Photo: Cooperation of the students of the Nature and Geography Department and the employees of the research properties of the Institute of Physiology of Plants and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.