ИНСТИТУТ ПО ПОЧВОЗНАНИЕ "НИКОЛА ПУШКАРОВ

INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE "NIKOLA POUSHKAROV"

Department of Soil Microbiology

Head of Department: Assoc.Prof. Radka Donkova, PhD
Phone.: +359 2 824 36 47; e-mail: radadonkova@gmail.com
Assoc.Prof. Aneta Dimitrova, PhD, e-mail: aneta_asd@yahoo.com
Assoc.Prof. Radka Altimirska, PhD, e-mail: radka_alt@hotmail.com
Assoc.Prof. Anna Markova, PhD, e-mail: ana-markova@abv.bg
Assoc.Prof. Darina Deribeeva, PhD, e-mail: encheva_boby2001@yahoo.com
Assoc.Prof. Nadya Kaloyanova, PhD, e-mail: muzuna@yahoo.com
Research Assoc. Kostadinka Nedyakkova, PhD, e-mail: k_ned@yahoo.com
Research Assoc. Efrosina Djonova, PhD, e-mail: avramov_m@yahoo.com
Research Assoc. Galina Petkova, PhD, e-mail: evgjalek@yahoo.com

* Biodiversity and biological activity of soil. Microbiological indicators to asses soil quality
* Optimizing microbiological activity and maintaining soil microbial biodiversity under ecological and anthropogenic impacts;

* Isolation, identification and selection of effective nitrogen-fixing bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi, phosphate solubilizing, cellulose docomposing and other microorganisms for improving plant nutrition and soil fertility;

* Biological nitrogen fixation;
* Development of microbiological methods to recover productivity of polluted, degraded and disturbed lands;
* Microbiological aspects of organic materials transformation and their utilization in agriculture;

* Microbiological and biological diagnostics of soils.

* Strain Collection of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, representative part of which is included in World Rhizobium collection;
* Effective nitrogen-fixing, phosphate solubilizing, cellulose docomposing microorganisms and endo mycorrhizal fungi for use in agriculture;
* Effective symbiotrophic associations for improving main crop production;
* Effective bacterial strain-cultivar pairs as an element of leguminous plant breeding technology;
* Biotechnological methods for quality improving of composts from different organic wastes;

* Technological decisions for improving the microbiological status of soils through biological methods.