Historical reference.Herbology lab was formed on January 4,1979. A major role in the organization and development of the lab was played by Bogdanovsky Alexander Fedorovich who had been at the Head of the lab since its creation.The first emploees were A.S. Andreev, A.A. Ivashkevich, V.S. Tereshchuk. The main directions of the lab, remained relevant up to date were defined.
The researches were initiated with the grain crops – barley. With S.V.Soroka, L.I. Soroka, G.P. Romaniuk, S.A. Kolesnik coming to the lab the volume of work and crops spectrum was expanded.
Since 1980 Alexander S. Andreev has been at the head of the lab, since 1994 – Sergey Vladimirovich Soroka, who was the first to defend Ph.D. thesis at the lab in 1990. Later on, the results of researches were presented in Ph.D. dissertations of V.S. Tereshchuk, T.N.Lapkovskaya, L.I.Soroka as well as the representative of a new scientists generation E.A. Yakimovich, R.V. Korpanov.
From 2003 to early 2011 the lab has been headed by T.N. Lapkovskaya. Currently, the research is being conducted in winter and spring cereals, pulse crops, corn, fiber flax, medicinal and aromatic herbs, large-fruited cranberry and etc. Due to the researches volume increase the staff of the lab is replenished by new employers N.V. Kabzar, A.V. Stashkevich, O.K. Lobach, N.S.Stashkevich, A.S.Pestereva, T.A. Stupakevich . 

Directions of work:
- the study of weed spread areas, the anthropogenic impact on the dynamics of their number ;
- the study of cultural and weed plants relationship in agrocoenoses, the definition of thresholds and critical periods of weeds harmfulness;
- evaluation of new assortment of pesticides efficiency;
- development of systems of rational herbicides application in the integrated main agricultural crop protection system

Research perspectives:
- data banks development on biology, phenology, distribution and harmfulness of dominant and new weed species, allowing the creation of economically and ecologically improved agricultural crop protection technology.;
- working out the forecast of main agricultural crop weed infestation due to climate warming;
- development of resource-saving ecologically friendly technologies of winter and spring grain crops, corn, lupine and fiber flax protection against weed vegetation;
- evaluation of cultural and weed plants sensitivity to herbicides and their formulations in order to create sustainable technologies of new generation herbicides application;
- herbicides assortment formation for spring triticale, winter barley, medicinal herbs, buckwheat and other crops;
- search and selection of herbicides to control cow parsnip Heracleum Sosnowski for preventing its spread to non-agricultural land, out of settlements and in populated areas;