The chair of Viticulture was formed in 1927 at Yerevan State University and later in 1930 was moved to newly established Armenian Agricultural Institute. The chairs of Horticulture and Plant Protection were formed in 1933 in the Armenian Agricultural Institute.

In 1947 the chair of Gardening was united with the chair of Grape and Fruit processing and was renamed to the Chair of Horticulture. After the establishment of the Armenian Agricultural Academy in 1994, the three chairs of viticulture, fruit growing and vegetable growing were united and in 1997 the chair of Horticulture and Plant Protection was formed.

2013-2019 the chair was headed by Docent A. J. Ter-Grigoryan. From 2019 up to September 2022, the chair was headed by Docent A. Manvelyan. And since September 2022, the acting chair is the dean of the Faculty of Agronomy, Docent A.J. Ter-Grigoryan.

The chair trains highly qualified specialists in the fields of plant protection, viticulture, fruit growing, varietal science and selection. More than one thousand scientific articles, many booklets, textbooks, training manuals and monographs of scientific and practical significance, have been published by the chair pedagogical staff.

Today in ANAU the scientific research laboratory of viticulture and fruit growing goes, founded by professor P.K. Ayvazyan, who in 1970-2008 headed it. A rich hybrid funds of grapes were created, which includes 35 thousand seed plants and 550 elite sort hybrids.

24 new selective varieties of grapes, maturing in different conditions of compatibility and technical dates, were created by the staff of the department (the authors are professors P.K. Ayvazyan and G.P. Ayvazyan).

Three new selection sorts of apricot trees were obtained by co-authorship with G. Santrosyan. Works are being done in the chair in the following directions: development of new systems of grape vine formation, cultivation of varietal differentiated agricultural machinery, introducing new cultivation technologies and a system of description and classification of varieties in apricot orchards, carrying out a phytosanitary examination in the fields of RA cereal crops, discovering and mapping the species composition of harmful organisms, explorations of characteristics of illnesses and pests of a grapevine, fruit trees and vegetable growing and fighting against those pests and illnesses.

The chair cooperates with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the University of Orleans in France, the selective experimental station of the city of Khrimsk in Krasnodar region, also with the farms of the republic and individual land users. The chair staff participate in the professional consulting activities carried out in different regions of Armenia.

Post-graduate students and applicants carry out scientific researches in different specialties in the chair. Consistent work is also being done in the direction of organizing students’ scientific research.