Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology of Pesticides

The laboratory has existed since 2025 and was established on the basis of two laboratories:

• the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of Pesticides, which was founded in 1956. Its first head was the leading scientist in the field of analytical chemistry of pesticides, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Ye.S. Kosmatyі. At various times, the laboratory was headed by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences V.M. Kavetskyi, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor L.I. Bublyk, and Candidate of Agricultural Sciences T.P. Panchenko;
• the Laboratory of Toxicology, which was founded simultaneously with the establishment of the institute (1946). Its first head was Academician V.P. Pospelov. In subsequent years, the laboratory was headed by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor M.P. Sekun, and Candidates of Agricultural Sciences L.M. Lyutko and O.G. Vlasova.

Analytical Chemistry of Pesticides

Head – Olesia V. Tsurkan, e-mail: lac_ipp@ukr.net

• creation of a database on the properties of pesticide active substances based on an integral indicator;
• development of algorithms and procedures for the systematic analysis of pesticides in matrices;
• establishment of a methodological framework for the determination of multiple pesticide residues (quantitative multi-residue method) to ensure effective ecotoxicological monitoring;
• development of innovative products for the multi-residue determination of active substances in matrices;
• creation of a dynamic database of ecotoxicological criteria for assessing the potential environmental hazard of pesticides, their predictive screening in agrocenoses, and the improvement of existing plant protection strategies against harmful organisms.

Practical Developments

Practical Services (on a Contract Basis)

Using the relevant methodological framework and patents:

• determination of active substance content in pesticide formulations;
• determination of plant protection product density;
• determination of active substance content in treated agricultural seed material (completeness of seed treatment).

Pesticide Toxicology

Head – Olha H. Vlasova, Leading Researcher, PhD in Agricultural Sciences, e-mail: vlasova_olga@meta.ua

• theoretical substantiation for the development and improvement of the insecticide assortment in order to increase efficiency and environmental safety, as well as to prevent the formation of resistant populations of major agricultural pests;
• substantiation of scientific principles for the rational application of pesticides in integrated plant protection systems;
• monitoring of the sensitivity of natural populations of major potato and cereal pests to insecticides, and studying the insecto-acaricidal resistance of harmful and beneficial arthropod species;
• study of the biological and physiological effects and after-effects of new insecticide formulations on harmful insect species under simultaneous and sequential application of toxicants.

Scientific Developments

• methodology for improving the study of resistant populations of harmful arthropods;
• methodological guidelines for determining the sensitivity of phytophages to insecto-acaricides;
• methodological guidelines for determining the mechanism of resistance formation in populations of harmful arthropods;
• system of chemical protection of fruit crops against pests and diseases; pesticide application regulations;
• anti-resistance methodology for plant protection systems against harmful arthropods;
• study of the toxic effects of insecticides on the honey bee: methodological guidelines;
• determination of pesticide toxicity indicators using probit analysis;
• database of factors influencing insecticide toxicity;
• pesticide application regulations;
• methodology for the combined application of pesticide mixtures;
• methodology for detecting the selective action of insecticides in the phytophage-entomophage system;
• scientific and methodological recommendations for improving the system of chemical protection of agricultural crops against pests.

Practical Services

• identification and establishment of the species composition of the entomocomplex in agrocenoses of cereals, potatoes, rapeseed, soybeans, and orchards during the vegetation period;
• monitoring the population dynamics of dangerous phytophage species during critical periods to determine the need for crop protection measures;
• identification of dominant phytophage species in various agrocenoses and recommendations for protection systems using insecto-acaricides in accordance with the current List of Pesticides;
• implementation of improved systems of chemical protection for cereals, potatoes, rapeseed, soybeans, and orchards;
• recommendations for preventing the formation of harmful phytophage populations resistant to insecto-acaricides.