The INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS AGRÍCOLAS (INCA) in agreement with the new organizing system of Science and Technological Innovation, enhances its scientific policy based on PROJECTS, dealing with basic and applied research, and innovation technology. The 30-year-old experience gathered by professionals has enabled to prescribe the following PROJECT subjects.

PLANT BREEDING
- Regional studies of Cuban potato varieties
- Evaluation, preservation and maintenance of potato germplasm in Cuba
- Production of potato varieties tolerating biotic and abiotic stresses
- Selection of new tomato varieties resisting high temperatures, salinity and drought, besides tolerating diseases and adapted to low-input crop technologies
- Production of short and mid-term rice varieties with its working technology
- Production of new rice varieties for saline and water stress conditions
- Creation of a tropical flower germplasm reserve fund
- Production and propagation of new salinity-tolerant ornamental varieties with its working technology
- Preservation, characterization and maintenance of significant crop collection to agriculture and foodstuff
- Genetic bases of tomato tolerance to pests and diseases.

BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Production of new potato genotypes by means of stress tolerant biotechonological methods
- Establishment of a methodology for artificial coffee seed production
- Production of new tomato and rice genotypes through biotechnological and nuclear methods with biotic and abiotic stress tolerance
- Productive technology of tropical ornamental plants by means of biotechnology
- Henequen reproduction trough biotechnological methods
- Scaling up of coffee somatic embryo production via submerged culture.

BIOFERTILIZERS
- Characterization of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus interaction in agroecosystems
- A more effective biofertilization technology with Rhizobium spp by synthesis induction and nod-factor excretion
- Use and management of arbuscular mycorrhizae and growth-promoting rhizobacteria
- Strain selection of crop growth-promoting rhizobacteria
- Rhizobacterial selection and bioproduct production for soybean fertilization
- Bacterium-derived biopreparations and its application to gramineae nutrition
- Impact of heavy metals at plant-mycorrhizal fungus interaction and on N-symbiotic fixation and leguminous crop development.

PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
- Effect of abiotic stress associated to global changes of economically-important species
- Development and water relations in plants as affected by water supply
- Biological activity and antistress potentialities of Cuban brassinosteroid analogs
- High temperatures and chloroplast performancce in plant seedlings
- Water demands in tropical ornamental and cut flower species
- Physiological studies supporting water stress breeding programs
- Hydraulic conductivity of roots and characterization of water and ionic transport in plants under salinity conditions
- Plant morphology and anatomy of significant crops under abiotic stress conditions
- Morphology, ultrastructure and endogenous content of hormones related to abiotic stress in plants obtained by means of biotechnology
- Water stress by nodulation default and nitrogen fixation in soybean.

AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
- A technological package for the integrated management of agro-sugar production.
- Organic food production. Environmental amelioration and urban ecological education
- New tomato and garden bean varieties and its productive technology
- Integrated technology for medicinal plant production and its applications
- Determination and solution of restrictions to obtain high rice yields
- Red rice control technology
- Wheat and soybean varieties and its productive technology under tropical conditions
- New rice and pumpkin varieties and its productive technology
- Crop protein production for human and animal foodstuff under temperature and humidity stress conditions
- Sugarcane production reestablishment in cane growers´cooperatives - Agroindustrial diversification of rice production agoecoysrems
- Soilless rose plant production
- Onion seed production system
- Potato tuber seed productive technology from true seed
- True potato seed production.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
- Agroecological zoning of several economic crops
- Sustainable technology for cut flower ornamental plant propagation
- Sustainable alternatives for Cuban agricultural foodstuff production
- Agroecological management of agriculture in cooperatives
- Sustainable alternatives for urban agricultural production increment
- Farmers’ agroecological productive estates in Havana province
- Potato tuberlet production by true seed, a low-input alternative for sustainable agriculture
- Establishment of methodological bases for participatory plant breeding in Cuba.

BIOMETRICS
- Advisory in Mathematical Statistics and Experimental Design to agricultural and veterinary researchers
- Use of modelling for an optimal soybean and rice management and the ENOS phase report in Cuba
- Specialists' qualification in Mathematical Statistics and Experimental Design applied to agricultural and veterinary investigations.

BIOACTIVE PRODUCTS
- Fungal elicitors for tobacco resistance induction against "black shank"
- Scale-up ultrafiltration methodology to obtain oligogalacturonides
- Oligogalacturonide used in morphogenesis and micropropagation
- Biotic elicitors for plant immunization against fungal and viral infections
- Structural analysis of bioactive oligosaccharides
- Fungal elicitors to activate potato systemic resistance against Phytophthora infestans attack
- Cuban brassinosteroid analogs as biorregulators in agriculture and biotechnology
- In vitro biological activity of Cuban brassinosteroid analogs.