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National Academy of Sciences
INSTITUTE OF BOTANY

Mail address Bogenbai-batyr Street 103, 180100 Alma-Ata
Telephone +7 (3272) 618-219, 618-250 Fax +7 (3272) 631 -207 Telex 251232

Sponsoring agency Ministry of Ecology and Bioresources
Nature National government
Mission Research
Scope of interest Kazakhstan flora and vegetation cover research (vascular plants, fungi, algae, mosses), ecologic-geographic laws of vegetation cover distribution, resources of the most important raw materials plants. ecological mapping of Asia's arid regions

Research program
Locations Throughout Kazakhstan
Subjects See Scope of interest

Internal Organization
Chief official Professor Sergei Alexeevich Bedarev, Director, Corresponding-member of the National Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan Republic

Facilities
Office Laboratories of higher plants flora, lower plants flora, experimental hydrobotany, geobotany, mapping, plant resources, monitoring and desertification, paleobotany, plant anatomy and cytology
Library Libraries within the Institute of Botany and the National Academy of Sciences
Exchange Facilities Herbarium materials exchange

Publications
Serials Botanical Materials of Institute of Botany Herbarium (issues 1-16,1955 1986), Serials of Institute of Botany (vol.1-38,1955-1978), Kazakhstan Flora (vol 1-9,1956-1966), Kazakhstan spore Plants Flora (vol 1-13,1956-1987)
Other The Complex Characteristics of Kazakhstan Desert Zone Rangelands ( 1990), Medicine Plants Resources of Kazakhstan Thian Shan (1989), Conservation of Kazakhstan Plants. Rare Species and Vegetation ( 1987), Botanical Researches in Kazakhstan ( 1988)

History
Institute of Botany established as independent institute of the Academy of Sciences in 1945