Oleg Baranov, Zhanna Anisova
Biological foundations of sustainable and productive agroecosystems
The article considers the term «agroecology» and its constituent technologies, methods and techniques necessary for obtaining high-quality agricultural products. They are designed to assess anthropogenic factors that have a technogenic impact on the ecosystem, including the use of chemical and biological fertilizers and plant protection products, soil reclamation, forage harvesting, grazing, etc.

Zhanna Kalatskaya, Ninel Elovskaya, Marina Mandrik-Litvinkovich, Ksenia Gilevskaya, Igor Ovchinnikov, Ekaterina Rybinskaya
Innovations in agroecology: how Belarus is adapting to modern challenges
The authors presented one of the most effective strategies for preserving and improving soil fertility, involving the technologies for complex environmentally friendly biological products and biofertilisers, including bacteria that stimulate plant growth, and modified natural compounds (polysaccharides or secondary plant metabolites), as well as natural minerals.

Alexander Kilchevsky, Igor Gordey, Valentina Lemesh, Marina Sinyavskaya.
Modern plant breeding: acceleration of obtaining improved varieties
The authors gave the innovative approaches to the creation of new varieties and hybrids of economically useful crops, in which traditional methods of hybridization and selection, developed over decades, are supplemented and improved due to the achievements of molecular biology, bioinformatics and genome editing.

Liudmila Kabashnikova
Biogenic immunostimulators are a new generation of crop protection agents
The article presents modern strategies for increasing the protective potential of plants against a complex of unfavorable environmental factors, including phytopathogens. There are considered the main mechanisms of priming protective reactions in a pathological process involving natural resistance inducers and the ways of their implementation in plants.

Alexander Shepshelev, Elena Bolotnik, Zinaida Aleshchenkova
Microbial biotechnologies in agricultural production
The article considers the ecological, economic and technological advantages of microbial biotechnologies and their use in agricultural sector, as well as presents the most significant developments of the Institute of Microbiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Marina Mandrik-Litvinkovich, Emilia Kolomiets
Innovations in solving the problem of stabilizing the agroecosystems phytosanitary state
An ecologically safe and economically rational strategy is presented as related to the identification and restoration of damaged microbial communities of urban and agricultural soils in order to preserve landscapes and increase crop productivity.

Oksana Urbanovich, Anastasia Shishlova-Sokolovskaya
Genetic editing of the genome using the CRISPR/Cas system
The authors consider the CRISPR-Cas technology, which changes the traditional approach to selection and allows influencing the most important characteristics of plants, including increased photosynthesis, disease resistance, and nutrient use efficiency.

Fedor Privalov, Nikolay Pavlovsky
Diversification potential of bog bilberry in Belarus
The authors gave the expedience of wide introducing bog bilberry into industrial and home gardening practices, which will contribute to the diversification of the industry, increase the production of fresh fruit, and expand its export in demand on the market.

Oleg Sinchuk, Alexander Kolbas, Dmitry Voitka, Irina Feklistova, Nadezhda Arkhipova
Phytosanitary analysis of garden agroecosystems of the Brest region
The authors gave the results of a comprehensive phytosanitary analysis of 4 Brest garden agroecosystems. They determined a complex of natural entomophages that can be considered as biological protection agents, and showed the effectiveness of biological preparations in limiting the spread of diseases and improving the condition of soils.

Irina Atroshko
Natural ecosystems under the protection of science
The most notable scientific achievements in various fields, including methods for determining the qualitative and quantitative indicators of drinking, surface and waste water, soil and ground research, livestock feed, as well as testing the plant protection products and fertilisers are presented in a collection of materials prepared for the 25th anniversary of the Polessky Agricultural and Ecological Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Vladimir Gusakov
The nature and characteristic features of the Belarusian economic model and the Belarusian economic school
The author considers the Belarusian socio-economic model and the role of the Belarusian economic school in wide presenting the domestic economy performance.

Alexey Shlyakhtun, Diana Stanislavchik, Galina Khovanskaya, Vyacheslav Polubok, Dmitry Pitsko, Lyudmila Eliseeva, Elena Raduta
The effect of yogurt with betulin on metabolic parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes
The authors give the research results of yogurt «DiaVita» with betulin and probiotic cultures effect on metabolic parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes. It was shown that this product contributed to a decrease in glucose and fructosamine levels, normalization of lipid metabolism and a decrease in the concentration of the proinflammatory marker TNF-?.