• Medicinal Plants Cultivation and Development Research Group
This group has faculty members specialized in the field of plant science, plant systematics, eco-physiology and cultivation of medicinal plants, and plant eco-systematics.
Research Line
- Development of Medicinal Plants Herbarium and the reference gene bank in Iran
- Production of new cultivars/varieties of medicinal plants
- Studies on cultivation/production of medicinal plants in greenhouse
- Post-harvest studies of medicinal plants
- Evaluation of organic production of medicinal plants
- Evaluation of the effects of environmental and agronomical factors on the quality and quantity yield of medicinal plants
- Studies on native and introduced medicinal plants in order to their domestication
Activities
- Gathering native medicinal species of IRAN to establish the Gene Bank of Iranian medicinal plants in order to domesticating, improving and reaching access to valuable medicinal plants
- Providing access to modern resources and methods of cultivation and production of medicinal plants
- Implementation of organic farming, and production of bio-herbicide, bio-pesticide and bio-fungicide.
- Settling of production and presentation of seed, seedling, and transplants of medicinal plants in Iran
- Assessment of the effects of environmental factors on quality and quantity of medicinal plants
Services
- Collection, identification, and evaluation of different species and populations of endemic medicinal plants of Iran
- Propagation and production of medicinal plant
- Study of agronomical agents and components on quality and quality of medicinal metabolites and agronomical characters of medicinal plants
- Optimization of cultivation and production of medicinal plants to improve the quality, quantity, and economy of medicinal plants
- Introducing new sources and methods of cultivation and production of medicinal plants
- Floristic study of protected and unprotected areas (including collection of herbarium specimens, photography in fields, identification and preparation of distribution map for plants, providing plant seeds, etc.)
- Ethno-botanical investigation and documentation of medicinal plants
- Identification of plant species (deposition of Herbarium code number)
- Identification of plant seeds (deposition of seed bank code number)
- Domestication of wild plant species from natural habitats of country
Laboratories
- Specialized gene bank of medicinal plants
- International herbarium of medicinal plants
- Experimental farms of medicinal plants
- Experimental greenhouses of medicinal plants
- Laboratory of plant eco-physiology
- Laboratory of seeds control and technology
- Alive collection of medicinal plants
Head
Dr. Ali Mehrafarin
Email: A.mehrafarin@gmail.com; Mehrafarin@imp.ac.ir
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-9535
http://isid.research.ac.ir/Ali_Mehrafarin
Member of Scientific Board
Dr. Hassanali Naghdi Badi
Email: Naghdibadi@yahoo.com; Naghdi@imp.ac.ir
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7070-8467
http://isid.research.ac.ir/Hassanali_NaghdiBadi
Dr. Maryam Ahvazi
Email: Maryame_ahvazi@yahoo.com; Ahvazi@imp.ac.ir
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6798-7044
http://isid.research.ac.ir/Maryam_Ahvazi
Dr. Majid Ghorbani Nohooji
Research assistant professor
Email: M.gh.nahooji@gmail.com; Ghorbani@imp.ac.ir
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9175-3942
http://isid.research.ac.ir/Majid_GhorbaniNohooj
Dr. Mohammadreza Labbafi
Email: Mlabbafy@gmail.com; Labbafi@imp.ac.ir
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2684-8080
http://isid.research.ac.ir/Mohammadreza_Labaf
Contact
Dr. Ali Mehrafarin
Email: A.mehrafarin@gmail.com; Mehrafarin@imp.ac.ir
Tel: 0098 935 873 10 66, 0098 912 438 93 57
Address: Start of Karaj-Qazvin Freeway-End of Behesht Sakineh Road-Jihad-e-Daneshgahi Research Complex-Jihad University Research Institute of Medicinal Plants