Zagirbeg Magomedovich Asadulaev is an Honored Scientist of the Republic of Dagestan, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Soil Science of the Dagestan State University, Chief of the Mountain Botanical Garden of the DFRC RAS.
Editor-in-Chief is a member of the editorial board of the journals "South of Russia", "Bulletin of the DSC RAS", "Izvestiya DGPU", a member of the Council of Botanical Gardens of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the Scientific Council on Botany of the Department of Biological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a freelance expert of the state environmental expertise of federal level facilities of the Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Environmental Management in the North Caucasus Federal District, member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Dagestan; Member of the commission for the competition for inclusion in the personnel reserve of the Ministry of Land and Estate Relations of the Republic of Dagestan.
The research interests include reproductive regeneration and anatomy of rhizogenesis of isolated structures of woody plants, economic and environmental aspects of vegetative and generative reproduction of fruit crops, introduction, plant ecology. Asadulaev Z.M. is the author of 5 valid patents. He has developed and patented original projects for the conservation and restoration of populations of rare woody plants of the flora of Dagestan, their accelerated vegetative reproduction.
Under the leadership of Z. Asadulaev with leading scientists from the Komarov Botanical Institute (St. Petersburg) and the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), new bryological, lichenological and geobotanical scientific directions have been started and intensively developed for Dagestan, large-scale work is being carried out on the inventory of mosses and lichens, deployed the program for monitoring the condition and demutation of communities of degraded mountainous territories of Dagestan, continued research in the field of population biology, phytochemistry and plant introduction.
