KarRC RAS to run trials of Belarusian technologies for woody plant reproduction

KarRC RAS CEO Olga Bakhmet signed a cooperation agreement with the Belarusian Republican Forest Breeding and Seed Production Center (RBSPC). Karelian Research Centre RAS will be a base for trying out Belarusian technologies for reproduction of woody plants in a northern environment.

Breams infected with ligula worms are edible

Biochemists and parasitologists at KarRC RAS studied how the wellbeing and nutritive value of the bream is affected by ligula – a flatworm that can grow to be several times as long as the host fish. To this end, scientists checked a number of crucial parameters in healthy and ligula-infected fish from Lake Syamozero. Analyses show that this parasite, non-hazardous for humans, does not have much effect on the quality of the fish either.