RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOIL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY OF THE
HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (RISSAC)
H-1022 Budapest,
Herman Ottó u. 15.
Web site: www.taki.iif.hu
E-mail: attila@rissac.hu
The Institute is
a scientific centre of soil science, agricultural chemistry, soil biology, and
soil ecology, acknowledged in Hungary and abroad. Its main task is modern, high
level basic research satisfactory for local needs and adequate to the trends of
international development; hence it has important –sometimes basic– role in the
applied studies, innovation, education (at different levels) and in
postgraduate training in the field. It receives and enterprises more and more
important and complicated tasks and projects in international co-operation.
Scientific aims and topics of the Institute
1. Survey and description of the
qualitative and quantitative state of our soil resources
2. Study of soil nutrient regime and energetic processes, their dynamics
in order to control them
3. Elaboration of the fundamentals of modern plant nutrition, clarifying
the role of plant nutritive element transport and
4. Microorganisms in soil processes.
5. Scientific establishment of a strategy for the prevention of soil
contamination and for soil remediation
5.1. Monitoring and nutritional
state survey of soil contamination in Hungary
5.2. Study and assay the biogeochemical cycles (transport, biotic and
abiotic transformation) of contaminants (mainly heavy metals) and their
controlling possibilities in soil-plant systems.
List of the Institute`s main
scientific projects connected to the application:
|
Source/Mandatory/ Collaborate |
Program |
Period |
|
US-AID
PSTC |
Fate
and plant uptake of selected toxic elements in cropped soil profiles (No.
12.056E) |
1991-1995 |
|
Fed.
Environ. Agency, Inst. for Water, Soil and Air Hyg., Germany |
Study
for standardization of soil biological methods for polluted and unpolluted
soils |
1994-1997 |
|
OTKA |
Model
experiment investigation of agricultural deposition and utilization of wastes
(T 030941) |
1999-2002 |
|
OTKA,
Swiss Nat. Found.,
Univ. Geneva |
Establishment
of sustainable agricultural systems by developing methods to measure in
situ the interactions between environmental stress factors and plant
fitness (TO 32890) |
2000-2003 |
|
EU-FP5 Univ. Köln-Ge., Kathol. Univ., CNRS Nancy-F.,
Univ. Krakow-Pl. |
PHYTOREM-The
use of AM fungi (and the helper bacteria) in phytoremediation projects
(QLK3-1999-00097) |
2000-2003 |
NATO, Science for Peace Decontamination
of hydrocarbon polluted military sites 2000-2003
Programme, to decrease environmental risks – Low cost cyclodextrin
technology (Project No.
SfP 973720)