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Founded in1995, 3 units:

1. Plant Nematodes and Management

2. Aquatic Nematodes and Environtmental Ecology

3. Entomopathogenic Nematodes and Biocontrol

Research Activities

• Taxonomy and systematics of plant, soil, insect, fresh water and marine nematodes in Vietnam.

• Assessment of economic importance of plant parasitic nematodes in Vietnam and design/advisory on integrated nematode management (IPM) in agricultural and forestry productions.

• Developing the biotechnology of entomopathogenic nematodes for biological control of insects and other pests in Vietnam.

• Developing nematode use as potential tools for pollution assessment and environmental biomonitoring of soil and aquatic ecosystems.

• Postgraduate training in Nematology.

Major Achievements

Nematode Taxonomy

• 250 species of plant parasitic nematodes has been recorded from agriculture and forest ecosystems.

• 16 species of entomopathogenic nematodes and 25 other species of entomogenous nematodes

• 200 species of soil freeliving nematodes.

• 350 species of fresh water and marine nematodes

Nematode Management

• Designed the IPM (integrated nematode management) for black pepper, coffee and rice productions

EPN and Biocontrol

• Evaluated and screened 7 EPN indigenous strains as potential agents for biocontrol of principal insect pests in Vietnam.

• Developed mass production of EPN by in vivo and in vitro cultures and formulated 6 EPN products named as NEMASTARs

• Applied for control of 30 insect pests , among them some important pests of vegetable, tobacco, vineyard and sugacane.

Use nematodes for Environmental Assessment

• Has assessed environmental quality of some agricultural soil ecosystems based on using nematode community structure and nematode maturity index (MI)

• Has assessed environmental pollution in some aquatic ecosystems based on application of PRIMER-v6 and PCORD-4 for statistical analysis of nematode data and other benthic communities.

• Has compiled of national standards (as ISO-2002 VN) for water quality assessment based on use nematodes and other meio-benthos

Publications

• 9 books in Russian and in Vietnamese

• 200 original research papers published on Vietnamese and International Journals.

Current Research Projects

• Diversity of plant and soil nematodes in forest ecosystems of Vietnam. Basis Research Program in Natural Sciences (2001-2005)

• Diversity of marine nematodes in costal mangrove forest ecosystems of Vietnam. Basis Research Program in Natural Sciences (2001-2005)

• Entomopathogenic Nematodes and symbiotic bacteria. Basis Research Program in Natural Sciences (2004-2005)

• Development of EPN Biotechnology for biocontrol of insect pests in Vietnam. National Biotechnology Program (2001-2004)

• Impact of mangrove exploitation on the benthic ecosystem and the assessment of ecological quality objectives (IMABE). VLIR Funding Project (2004-2009)

• Structures and Functions of mangrove ecosystem in Vietnam. German-Vietnamese Project (2003-2006)

• Biodiversity of freshwater nematodes in basin of North delta. IEBR Project (2002-2005).

• Other research contracts

Personnel staff

• Nguyen Ngoc Chau, Assoc. Prof., Dr., Principal Researcher. Taxonomy and Ecology of Plant and Insect Nematodes

• Nguyen Vu Thanh, Assoc. Prof., DSc., Principal Researcher. Taxonomy and Ecology of Soil and Aquatic Nematodes.

• Vu Thi Thanh Tam, PhD., Researcher on Ecology and biocontrol of plant nematodes.

• Nguyen Dinh Tu, PhD., Taxonomy and Ecology of Marine Nematodes.

• Trinh Quang Phap, PhD. Taxonomy and Molecular of Plant Nematodes.
  
• Nguyen Thanh Hien, MsC. Assistant Researcher. Taxonomy and Ecology aquatic Nematodes.
• Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong, Assistant Researcher. Taxonomy and Ecology aquatic Nematodes.

• Nguyen Thi Duyen,  Assistant Researcher. EPN

• Nguyen Thi Anh Duong, Researcher on Ecology and biocontrol of plant nematodes

• Pham Xuan Lam, Researcher on Ecology and biocontrol of plant nematodes

Facility and infrastructure

• Laboratories: Identification, Testing, Culturing, Extraction, Pilot.

• Equipment: Microscopes, Stereomicroscopes, Centrifugator, Laminar Flow, Incubators, Environmental indication set (TOA), Computers, Scanner, Softwares, etc.

• Nematode collection: (about 12,000 nematode slides and 100,000 nematode specimens).

• Nematode Library: with almost necessary and updated literatures.

• Experiment Station: Greenhouse, Experiment field.