Biomics

In my life, I had two meetings in narrow circle with an academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the organizing director of our Department of Biochemistry and Cytochemistry of the Bashkirian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now the Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Vasily Grigoryevich Konarev. The first one took place in Ufa at the hotel “Rossiya” in July 1982, and the second one took place almost two decades later in St. Petersburg in December 2000 at his home, where I came to present Vasily Grigoryevich with congratulatory addresses from Ufa in connection with his 85^th birthday, as well as deliver delicious gifts. His wife Ida Adolfovna attended both meetings. At the first meeting, the then head of the Department of Biochemistry and Cytochemistry, a disciple of V.G.Konarev, Sh.Ya.Gilyazetdinov, took me with him. The second meeting took place due to the fact that I was sent on a business trip to St. Petersburg, to the VIR by another of disciple of V.G.Konarev, the director of the Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, V.A.Vakhitov (who is also a disciple of Sh.Ya.Gilyazetdinov), with a mission, including to visit V.G.Konarev.

V.G.Konarev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, plant genome, wheat

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4. Konarev VG. Morphogenesis and molecular biological analysis of plants. 2^nd edition. St.Petersburg. 2001. 417 p.
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7. Konarev VG, Tyuterev SL. Methods of biochemistry and cytochemistry of plant nucleic acids. Leningrad : Kolos. 1970. 204 p. (In Russian)
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