Current

Department of forest rehabilitation and melioration

Study of water-regulatory and soil-protective functions of the basin of the river Aragvi in the oak and beech belts (2007, I-stage)

Department of forest biodiversity, planning and expertise

Studying of properties of Borjomi gorge forests biodiversity: Studying of properties of pine forest biodiversity (2006-2007) - Project financed by State Budget

Bio-ecological peculiarities of rare and vanishing wood species (pomegranate, sea-buckthorn, forest pear, crab apple, birch) and studying of their present state: Bio-ecological peculiarities of rare and vanishing wood species sea-buckthorn and measures for preserving and reproduction of its gene pool (2006) - Project financed by the State Budget

Studying of morphological, granulometric and chemical contents of soils in formations of Georgian oak (pure oak groves, oak-hornbeam groves and oak-oriental hornbeam groves) (2006) - Project financed by the State Budget

Studying of oak eco-systems genesis, structure, growth-development, climate-edaphic peculiarities in order to form biologically sustainable coppices in Eastern Georgia (2007-2010) - Project financed by the State Budget

Department of Forest Protection

For the given period the work has been carrying out in 2006-2009 for the implementation of project "Forest Protection from Pests by The Biological Means, Safe for Environment", financed by Georgian national scientific fund.

In the limits of project fundamental investigations are carried out for revealing and studying of pathogenic micro-orgamizms and ontophages, attendant (Ips Typographus L. Coleoptera: Scolytidae), in the result of which parazitoide Tmicobia seitneri Ruschk. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) and fly of prey Xylophagous cinctus Deg. (Diptera: Xylophagidae) were revealed from entomophages of typographus, which are first marked in Georgian entomofauna. Different species of gregarian, pathogenic nematodes - Parasitorhabditis sp. (Rhabditida: Rhabditidae), Bursaphelenchus sp. (Tylenchida: Aphelenchoididae), Contortylenchus sp. (Tylenchida: Tylenchoidae); Fungi pathogenes - Coniothyrium Pirocolum Poteb, Cephalosporium lacanii Zim.; Penicillium and some species of Fusarium name. Foretic types of Typographus - Dendrolaelaps quadrisetus, Trichouropoda polytricha, Pleuronectocelaeno Barbara and others have been revealed.

Bringing in and testing of new bacterial preparations against leaf-rodent insects is taking place, data base on leaf-rodent pests in Georgian forest is under formation, which will be sited in the internet in 2009.