Department of Silviculture and Genetics of Forest Trees

The scope of activities of the Department

• Natural and economic conditions of farming a multifunctional forest.
• Methods and technologies for the production of planting material.
• Cultivation management, methods of restoring and caring for stands.
• Shaping the relative stability of the forest under the threat of biotic and abiotic factors.
• Spatial structure of stands, processes shaping it and its impact on forest functions.
• Reconstruction of stands.
• Afforestation of post-agricultural land, wastelands and devastated forest land,
  Restitution of the forest in areas of ecological disaster.
• Phenotypic and genetic variability of the main forest-forming species and their breeding value.
• Application of molecular biology methods (DNA, isoenzymes) to study the structures and functions of genes.
• Protection of genetic diversity of native populations of trees and shrubs.
• Long-term storage of seeds and plant tissues, assessment of their physiological state and quality.
• In vitro propagation of forest tree species.
• Plantation cultivation of trees of fast-growing species.