The article provides information about the emergence of a direction in biology – industrial botany. The authors dwell in detail on the personality of doctor of biological science, professor E.N. Kondratyuk, who made a significant contribution to the development of industrial botany in Donbass. The main theoretical and applied tasks of industrial botany and ways to solve them are formulated.
A.Z. Glukhov, S.A. Prykhodko, I.V. Agurova