The Institute is conducting research and development activities that aim to maintain and improve the background / genetic heritage of potatoes, sugar beets, herbs, turkeys and cattle. It also studies methods to create new varieties of potato and sugar beet by using classical and unconventional methods, using wild and cultivated species, with good adaptation to Romanian conditions, with disease resistance, which makes better use of ecological and technological resources and it is interested in improving the quality of seed potatoes and promoting biotechnologies (in vitro cultures, micro and mini-tubers