Head of Division - Wojciech Nowacki, Ph.D.

PL, Jadwisin, 05-140 Serock
phone/fax: (+48 22) 782 66 20 or 782 72 20 or 782 72 65
e-mail: jadwisin@ihar.edu.pl

Department of Potato Agronomy
Wojciech Nowacki, Ph.D.
phone/fax (0 22) 782 66 20, 782 72 20, 782 72 65
e-mail: w.nowacki@ihar.edu.pl

Laboratory for Agrotechnology and Mechanization
Wojciech Nowacki, Ph.D
tel./fax (0 22) 782 66 20, 782 72 20, 782 72 65, w. 155
e-mail: w.nowacki@ihar.edu.pl

Science workers:
Wojciech Nowacki, Ph.D., Wojciech Goliszewski, Ph.D; Barbara Lutomirska, Ph.D; Marianna Szutkowska, M.Sc.; Dominika Boguszewska, M.Sc; Piotr Barbaś, M.Sc.

Research activities:

• agricultural characteristic of potato cultivars;
• biological base of potato plant productivity;
• improvement researches of potato cultivation in different systems: ecological, integrated and specialist system;
• quantity and low input technology of potato cultivation;
• presprouting technology of seed material;
• plant water demands and potato cultivar tolerance to drought stress
• methodology of potato quality evaluation
• improvement of plants cultivation methods with using mechanical methods and herbicides;
• prevention from tuber defects caused by biotic and abiotic stresses;
• agrotechnical methods preventing from spreading of potato bacterial ring rot;
• technology and economy of potato harvest in a big scale;
• alternative methods of potato using for feed and energetic purposes;
• national monitoring of yielding level, using different cultivation systems and different methods of potato storage.

Laboratory for Fertilization and Quality Assessment
Władysław Mazurczyk, D.Sc.
phone/fax (0 22) 782 66 20, 782 72 20, 782 72 65, w. 130
e-mail: w.mazurczyk@ihar.edu.pl

Science workers:
Władysław Mazurczyk, D.Sc., Cezary Trawczyński, Ph.D., Anna Wierzbicka, M.Sc., Justyna Wroniak, M.Sc.

Research activities:

• technology of precise application of nutrients and water in potato production with use of computerized decision support systems;
• nutrients and water utilisation by plants growing under different management systems;
• agricultural usefulness of various organic and mineral fertilizers;
• estimation of fertilization demands for new potato cultivars;
• agrophysiological background of potato crop nutrition;
• chemical composition of potato tubers and their quality;
• biomass accumulation at three levels of production: potential, water or nutrient limited and actual
• exploitation of plant growth model Daisy in investigations of soil-plant-atmosphere system.
  

Department of Potato Storage and Processing
Professor Kazimiera Zgórska, D.Sc.
phone/fax (0 22) 782 66 20, 782 72 20, 782 72 65 ext. 105
e-mail: k.zgorska@ihar.edu.pl

Science workers:
Professor Kazimiera Zgórska, D.Sc., Zbigniew Czerko, Ph.D.; Magdalena Grudzińska, Ph.D.

Research activities:

• storage characteristics of cultivars;
• cultivar suitability for food processing and for direct consumption;
• laboratory evaluation of tubers quality;
• modern methods and equipment in storage technology;
• adaptation of farm buildings for storage;
• project concepts for constructions of new storage buildings;
• concepts of ventilation systems;
• mechanization of reloading and handling.
  

Work in potato storege.

The Division can (in the subjects mentioned above) accept orders for:

• research and implementation projects,
• field and storage experiments,
• registration researches of plant protection agents,
• expert opinions, standards, instructions,
• conferences, seminars, presentations,
• ectures, training, consulting,
• field and laboratory analyses,
• scientific works, training materials (handbooks, brochures, films, etc.).

Scientists working currently at Research Division Jadwisin and their specializations:

• Nowacki Wojciech, Ph.D., Head of the Research Division and of the Department of Potato Agronomy - technology of handling, macro-problems of potato sector.
• Professor Zgórska Kazimiera, D.Sc., Head of the Potato Processing and Storage Department
  - potato processing, evaluation of row plant materials.
• Mazurczyk Władysław, D.Sc., Head of Laboratory for Fertilization and Quality Assessment - modelling of potato plant development, chemical analyses of potato plant
• Professor Rykaczewska Krystyna, D.Sc., Head of Laboratory of Potato Physiology - plant physiology, physiological age of potato tubers.
• Czerko Zbigniew, Ph.D., - potato storage, ventilation technic, storage buildings.
• Goliszewski Wojciech, Ph.D., Head of Services Section - potato seed production, organic production system.
• Trawczyński Cezary, Ph.D., - fertilization of potato crop: technology and technique.
• Zarzyńska Krystyna, Ph.D., - plant physiology, organic production system, seed tuber quality assessment.
• Lutomirska Barbara, M.Sc., - potato cultivar assessment, agronomical methods of disease and pest control.
• Magdalena Grudzińska, Ph.D. - food technology, plant product processing.
• Szutkowska Marianna, M.Sc., - field experiments, potato crop protection systems.
• Wierzbicka Anna, M.Sc., - fertilization for cultivars.
• Wroniak Justyna, MSc. - potato yield quality, analisis of chemical compounds of potato tubers.
• Boguszewska Dominika, MSc. - draught stress and its influence on potato plants and potato tubers quality; plants water demands, Clavibacter michiganensis subspecies sepedonicus development on potato plants during vegetation period.
• Barbaś Piotr, MSc. - cultivation methods of potato fields, herbology, methods of elimination of Clavibacter michiganensis subspecies sepedonicus

Jadwisin Research Division have special research facilities: experimental field of 8 ha with 4-year rotation, ecological statistic ex[periment, static field experiments, complex of 432 microplots with 6 different soil types typical for Poland (object for researches connected with bacterial ring rot of potato), green house, experimental store building, weather station, and other research equipment.
Achievements of Jadwisin Research Division: number of awards of Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Education, 28 doctoral dissertations, 5 thesis qualifying for assistant-professorship, over 3300 publications.
The Scientific team cooperate with farmers and various institutions of potato sector.
Jadwisin is also a head quarters of Polish Potato Association.
Jadwisin Research Division invites to cooperation all research institutions, advisory services and other partners from potato sector.