1) Title: Research of plant biodiversity within family Poaceae (Poa L. and Festuca L.) (№ 12-04-90723)
Funding agency: Russian Fund for Basic Research
Principal investigator: M. Olonova
2) Title: Population variability and phylogeography of plants of non-tropical Asia in accordance with Quaternary climate change based on model ferns and grasses (№ 13-04-01715-а)
Funding agency: Russian Fund for Basic Research
Principal investigator: M. Olonova
3) Title: Polymorphism and specificity of St-Y- genome species Elymus gmelinii and E. pendulinus in the Asian part of Russia, inferred by classic methods of systematics and molecular genetic (№ 14-34-50524-мол)
Funding agency: Russian Fund for Basic Research
Principal investigator: M. Olonova
4) Title: Speciation and phylogeography in Asian Russia according with Quaternal climate change on example of model genera of grasses (N 16-04-01605)
Principal investigator: M. Olonova
5) Title: Dynamics of the grasses ranges in the territory of Asian Russia in conditions of the changing climate in the Cenozoic (on the example of model genera). (N 19-04-00973) 2019
Funding agency: Russian Fund for Basic Research.
Principal investigator: M. Olonova
6) Title: Microevolution, phylogeny and formation of biodiversity of xeromorphic grasses of extratropical Asia by the example of bluegrass (Poa L.) of the P. versicolor aggregate.
(N 22-24-00994) 2022
Funding agency: Russian Scientific Fund
Principal investigator: M. Olonova
Research of the (genus of cereals depending on the territory of residence of the potential graduate student): taxonomy, ecology, distribution.
1) Olonova MV, Shiposha VD, Romanets RS, Singh H. Phenotypic plasticity of the stem epidermis in the bluegrasses (Poa L.) of section Stenopoa Dumort. (Poaceae). II. Xeromorphic species
Acta Biologica Sibirica 8: 673–692. https://doi.org/10.14258/abs.v8.e42 (2022)
2) Soreng R.J., Olonova M.V., Probatova N.S., Gillespie L.J. Breeding systems and phylogeny in Poa L., with special attention to Northeast Asia: the problem of Poa shumushuensis Ohwi and sect. Nivicolae (Poaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution June 2020 DOI:
10.1111/jse.12647
3) Olonova, M., Gudkova, P., Navruzshoev, D., Barkworth, M. (2020). Endemic and relic species plants of Badakhshsan (Pamirs) and new approach to their conservation. Ukrainian Journal of Ecology, 10(6), 1-8
4) Olonova M.V., Vysokikh T.S., Mezina N. S. Structure of ecologo-climatic niches of Poa palustris L. and P. nemoralis L. (Poaceae) in Asian Russia //Contemporary Problems of Ecology. 2018. Vol. 11, № 6. P. 604-613
5) Olonova M.V., Gussarova G.L., Brysting A.K. & Mezina N.S. 2016: Introgressive hybridization in mesomorphic bluegrasses, Poa section Stenopoa, in western Siberia. — Ann. Bot. Fennici 53: 43–55
6) Olonova M.V., Singh H. Poa sorengiana (Poaceae): a new species from Western Himalaya, India // Phytotaxa. 2023. Vol. 609, № 1. P. 10‒16. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.609.1.2
Results of intellectual activity
1) Olonova MV 2016. Genus Poa L. in Siberia. Tomsk, Publ. House of TSU. 360 p
2) Zhu GH, Liu L, Olonova MV. 2006. Poa subg. Stenopoa Dumortier, in Soreng et L.J. Gillespie (eds). Flora of China vol. 22: 295-309. Beijing - St.-Louis. (Olonova MV. 2007. Illustrations of 6 Siberian bluegrasses, in Flora of China vol. 22 (Beijing - St. Louis)
3) Olonova MV. 2001. Poa L. in Flora of Siberia (English translation). Scienсe Publishers Inc. pp.165-189, 317-323. (Olonova MV. 1990. Poa L. in Flora of Siberia (in Russian), vol. 2: 163-186, 308-315, Novosibirsk)
4) Olonova, M.V., Gudkova P.D., Shomurodov H., Adylov B., Rakhimova N., Khabibullaev B., Polvonov F. Creating a bioclimate model of the species (in Uzbek). 2021 February 2021. Publisher: Muxr press ISBN: 978-9943-5461-8-9
Systematics and phylogeny of grasses, plant anatomy, morphological and genetic diversity, biogeography, ecological and climatic modeling, plant concervation