Head of Department: Belkin Sergey Vladimirovich

Education: Higher professional, Oryol State Agrarian University, 2004

Specialty: agrobusiness

Qualification: agronomist scientist

The main activities of the department:

- conducting laboratory researches of samples  of regulated products in order to establish their quarantine phytosanitary condition;

- determination of sowing and varietal indicators of seeds and planting material.

The main expertise in the field of plant quarantine:

 - entomological examination of samples of seed and planting material, food and technical products, stock products, cuts of flowers, forest products, sawn timber and wooden containers, as well as material selected during phytosanitary monitoring: pheromone traps, colored traps, bills, entomological sample documents (insects in various stages of development) for the identification of insects by morphological features by microscopic examination. The identification of insects sent from other units of the phytosanitary testing laboratory is confirmed.

- Herbological examination of samples of seed material, grain and products of its processing, soil, foodstuffs, as well as material selected during phytosanitary monitoring: estimates, sample documents (vegetative plants, weed seed samples) for identification of plants on different developmental stages, seeds and fruits.

- helminthological examination of samples of seed and planting material, food loads to identify and identify quarantine types of cyst-forming potato gall, stem nematodes, forest products, sawn timber and wooden containers made of coniferous species - to identify and identify pine stem nematodes in domestic and imported products.

- bacteriological examination of samples of seed and planting material, foodstuffs, as well as material selected during phytosanitary monitoring: seedlings, cuttings and parts of plants, seedlings of flowers and other agricultural crops, to identify quarantine pests and establish the phytosanitary condition in Tula areas. To identify and identify the causative agents of bacterial diseases in the department, such methods of analysis as various modifications of the PCR method (classical PCR with detection by electrophoresis method, PCR in Real Time format) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) are used.

 - virological examination of samples of seed and planting material, foodstuffs, as well as material selected during phytosanitary monitoring: seedlings, cuttings and parts of plants, seedlings of flowers and other agricultural crops, to identify quarantine pests and establish the phytosanitary status in Tula areas. To identify and identify the causative agents of viral diseases in the department, such methods of analysis as various modifications of the PCR method (classical RT-PCR with detection by electrophoresis, PCR in Real Time format) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) are used.

 - Mycological examination of samples of seed and planting material, food and technical products, flower sections, potted plants for the detection of pathogens of fungal diseases by microscopy, as well as using crops in a moist chamber and on nutrient media.

Basic research in the field of determining the varietal and sowing qualities of seeds and planting material:

For testing seed and planting material, the testing laboratory uses modern test methods and uses high-precision equipment.

The main methods used by the Oryol department of plant quarantine and seed quality to determine the sowing qualities of seeds:

- determination of cleanliness and waste;

- determination of germination;

- determination of viability;

- determination of humidity;

- determination of the mass of 1000 seeds;

- determination of disease contamination;

- determination of pest infestation;

- Determination of the quality of seed potato tubers;

- Determination of the quality of onion sets and onion sampling;

- determination of germination of seeds of flower crops;

- determination of seed waste, evenness in size, single-seed, germination, single-growth and high quality, mass of 1000 seeds and mass of one sowing unit of sugar beet.

The staff of the department includes 11 employees with higher education, qualification scientist agronomist. Specialists are regularly trained in general and individual advanced training courses at the All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine in Moscow and Pyatigorsk, etc.

The work of the department is based on meeting the requirements for testing laboratories established by Russian and international standards. When conducting all types of research and measurements in the laboratory, only methods are used in accordance with GOST ISO / IEC 17025-2009, EPPO standards, which allows