Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor Office 5214, tel. +7(7172)38-39-59 E-mail: b.amantayev@kazatu.edu.kz

Sphere of scientific interests
Innovation in conservation agriculture

Delivered disciplines
Crop production, Technology of storage and processing of plant products

Main research areas    
Effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) in case of cultivation of crops.
Exact agriculture – an innovation in system of resource-saving agriculture.

Current research projects
«Development of techniques for increasing productivity, drought tolerance of wheat in arid conditions of Central, Northern Kazakhstan using mathematical modeling» - Project Manager;
«Production early maturing soybean material with high productive and adaptive potential using molecular breeding methods for conditions of Northern Kazakhstan» - project executor

Master and Doctorate students working under his/her supervision
Master student: Karimova Ainur Merekeeva
Doctoral student: Lushchak Pavel 

Education
1992-1997 S. Seifullin Akmolinsk Agricultural University, Agronomy Faculty, Agronomist

Work experience
1997-2001 – Junior researcher of the South - Kazakhstan SRI of Agriculture
2001-2003 – Senior researcher of the Southwest Research and Production Center
2003-2006 – Head of the laboratory of Plant Biotechnology in South-Western Scientific Production Center
2006-2007 – Senior lecturer at the South Kazakhstan State University
2007-2012 – Deputy Dean of Agricultural Faculty of the South Kazakhstan State University
2014-2015 – Senior lecturer of the Department of Agriculture and Crop production of S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University
2015-2022 Head of the Department of Agriculture and Crop production of S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University
Since September 2022 to present - Associate Professor of the Department of Agriculture and Crop рroduction

Awards, certificates of honor
2013 International Scholarship of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Bolashak"
2017 - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
2022 - Badge "excellence in agriculture"

Advanced training courses
2020 - Advanced training courses. Management of an educational organization for managers.  Association of Higher Educational Institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. No.2155, Astana.
2022 - Advanced training courses. Primary seed production of grain crops Scientific and production center of grain economy named after A.I.Baraev. Shortandy.

Local, national and international meetings
International Scientific and Practical conference "Organic agriculture in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Present and future". Astana, July 2020.

Publliched works
The author has published more than 40 scientific works. The most significant are the following:
1.    Gulmira Khassanova, Akhylbek Kurishbayev, Satyvaldy Jatayev, Askar Zhubatkanov, Aybek Zhumalin, Arysgul Turbekova, Bekzak Amantaev, Sergiy Lopato, Carly Schramm, Colin Jenkins, Kathleen Soole, Peter Langridge,Yuri Shavrukov. Intracellular Vesicle Trafficking Genes, RabC-GTP, Are Highly Expressed Under Salinity and Rapid Dehydration but Down-Regulated by Drought in Leaves of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Frontiers in Genetics. February 2019. Volume 10. Article 40. Impact Factor (2020) 4.599. Quartile Q2.
2.    Irina Zhirnova, Aiman Rysbekova, Elmira Dyussibayeva, Aiym Zhakenova, Bekzak Amantaev, Yin-Gang Hu, Bai-Li Feng, Zhazira Zhunusbayeva. Pre-breeding for waxy millet millet by phenotyping and marker-assisted selection. Chilean Journal Of Agricultural Research. Volume 81. Issue 4. Page 5 18-526. Published OCT-DEC 2021. Document Type Article. Impact Factor (2020) 1.677. Quartile Q2.
3.    Akmaral Baidyussen, Satyvaldy Jatayev, Gulmira Khassanova, Bekzak Amantayev, Grigory Sereda, Sergey Sereda, Narendra K. Gupta, Sunita Gupta, Carly Schramm, Peter Anderson, Colin L. D. Jenkins, Kathleen L. Soole, Peter Langridge, Yuri Shavrukov. Expression of Specific Alleles of Zinc-Finger Transcription Factors, HvSAP8 and HvSAP16, and Corresponding SNP Markers, Are Associated with Drought Tolerance in Barley Populations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021. Journal Impact Factor 2020-5.924. Биохимия и молекулярная биология в издании SCIE, Q1
4.    Aliya Baitelenova, Almas Kurbanbayev, Gani Stybayev, Hristina Yancheva, Nurlan Serekpayev, Nurbolat Mukhanov, Bekzat Amantaev. Photosynthetic potential and productivity of annual mixed crops in northern Kazakhstan. Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science CiteScore 2020-1.0 Percentile – 45.
5.    A. Turbekova, I. Oshergina, A. Kurmangozhinov, E. Ten, B. Amantayev, G. Kipshakbaeva Evaluation of the Genetic Material of the Grass Pea (Lathyrus Sativus L.) Seed Collection in Northern Kazakhstan. Ж. OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences 2022, 22 (2): 191.200 DOI: 10.3844/ojbsci.2022.191.200
6.    Abdelkader, M.; Voronina, L.; Baratova, L.; Shelepova, O.; Zargar, M.; Puchkov, M.; Loktionova, E.; Amantayev, B.; Kipshakbaeva, A.; Arinov, B. Biostimulants-Based Amino Acids Augment Physio-Biochemical Responses and Promote Salinity Tolerance of Lettuce Plants (Lactuca sativa L.). Horticulturae 2023, 9, 807. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/horticulturae9070807