UNU EXPERIMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEX OF THE IGF RAS (UNU OBK IGF RAS)

The OBK of the IGF RAS provides comprehensive scientific research in the field of biotechnology of higher plants. The OBK of the IGF RAS includes three sections: preparatory, production and finished product receiving section, equipped with both domestic and imported equipment.

At the preparatory site, work is carried out on air purification; preparation and sterilization of dishes and equipment; preparation and sterilization of cultivation media; maintenance in collections of producing crops; preparation of selected strains for hardware cultivation. The site is equipped with a set of distillers and steam autoclaves, washing equipment, sterilization and drying plants, climate chambers with controlled environmental conditions and stationary circular rockers for long-term cultivation of producer strains in flasks with a speed control system (for flasks 0.25 — 2.00 liters), laminar flow cabinets, as well as analytical equipment. The production site is equipped with fermentation plants with a volume from 2 to 2500 liters, in which the actual hardware cultivation of producer crops is carried out in laboratory, pilot and semi-industrial plants while simultaneously monitoring the processes of growth and biosynthesis. At the site of receiving finished products, plant cells and adventitious roots are separated from the culture liquid, dried, dry biomass is analyzed, packaged and stored. The sector is equipped with a set of filtration and drying equipment that allows working with various volumes of cell suspensions and adventitious roots, as well as appropriate analytical equipment for chemical analysis of the products (HPLC, HPLC-MS, spectrophotometers).

According to the set of parameters, the IGF RAS is a unique installation for the development of biotechnologies for the industrial production of biological products with specified properties for the needs of the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries based on cell cultures and organs of higher plants, regardless of environmental conditions. The characteristics of the available technological equipment make it possible to create an environmentally safe and economically profitable production scheme when scaling laboratory developments.