Adaptation possibilities of introduced plants of various origin in conditions of Botanical garden at Surgut State University

The botanical garden in Surgut is the northernmost in Western Siberia and one of the northernmost botanical gardens in Russia. It is the major point for promoting new agricultural and biological technologies to the Far North. Currently, the collection of ornamental plants of the Surgut botanical garden comprises about 200 species and varieties of herbaceous plants belonging to 60 genera and 32 families, and about 210 species, forms and cultivars of woody plants. The research objective is to study the adaptation mechanisms of some ornamental plants from the collection of the botanical garden using the up-to-date portable flavonoid and chlorophyll meter DUALEX. The research objects are five species of herbaceous plants of genus Iris L. - Iris hungarica Waldst. &Kit., Iris variegata L., Iris sibirica L., Iris glaucescens Bunge, Iris sulfurea C. Koch. and eight species of woody plants of genus Acer L. - Acer pseudoplatanus L., Acer rubrum L., Acer trautvetteri Medw., Acer tataricum L...