| Central
Department
Head
of Department: Ph.D. Gvozden Dumicic
The
Central department's role is coordination of technicians'
work and ensurance of optimal use of trial plantations
and equipment in order to enable scientific and professional
projects' implementation.
The
main buildings of the Institute, in Duilovo, are fitted
to the needs of the laboratory research activities
(viticulture and enology, soil science, plant nutrition,
fruit and vegetable growing, fruit and vegetable processing,
plant tissue culture, plant protection, molecular
biology and microbiology). The small building-refrigerated
space was renovated in an experimental wine cellar.
At
its experimental plantations the Institute maintains
its collections of native, indigenous and introduced
plant species. The building of the Institute is surrounded
by test sites (greenhouse - 1.3 ha; annual and perennial
crops - 1ha). At another 5 ha of trial plantation
in Kastel Stari there is an experimental oil mill
and long-term crops. In the area of Sibenik, Muc and
Split surroundings permanent sample plots have also
been established in order to study the selection of
species and methods for afforestation of Mediterranean
karst areas and the impact of forest vegetation on
soil protection from erosion.
Scientific
Suport Resources at the Institute:
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