Developing strategies for artifical propagation and preservation of protected species. Exploration and utilization of new plant resources. Chemotaxonomy and measurement of active ingredients of plants either native to or potentially introduced into Hungary. Naturalization of new economic plants in order to increase the diversity of cultivated crops, with emphasis on requirement arising agricultural farms and global climate changes. A specific task of the Institute is the preservation and improvement of plant collections in the Botanical Garden.
Research is supported partly by national and international grants.
As a result of our activities, more than 1300 publications, books and book chapters were published so far. Organisation of the Institute Ecological Centre, Department of Plant Ecology, Hungarian Danube Research Station, Botanical Garden, Finance Department.