LABPRATORY “APPLIED GENETICS AND PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGIES”

Leader

FIELD OF RESEARCH

  • Development of initial plant material for plant breeding and genetics.
  • Population variability of phytopathogens and induced resistance in plants.
  • Finding sources of complex resistance to economically important diseases in cultivated plants.
  • Micro propagation of endangered, traditional and nontraditional medicinal species and obtaining suitable plant material for breeding programs.
  • Gene transfer and application of chemical agents for increasing the synthesis of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants.

Scientific Achievements

Selected Varieties

Scientific Publications

TEAM

Zornitsa Stoyanova – MSc

Office: 123, 13 km
E-mail: zornica_st@abv.bg
Scientific interests: Plant diseases, phytopathogenic fungi, pathogenicity, disease resistance, sources of biotic stress resistance in plants; Colletotrichum, Phomopsis, Septoria; plant protection; collection, description and preservation of  pepper cultivars (Capsicum spp.) –  bulgarian old and local forms.

Bistra Mihaylova – PhD

Office: 16, 13 km
E-mail: bistrasm@abv.bg
Scientific interests: Description, storage and maintenance of a pepper collection created in IFRG and other local pepper forms. Genetic diversity of pathogens causing plant diseases. Identifications of sources of resistance to phytopathogenic  viruses, bacteria and fungi both in wild plant species and crops. Development of plant lines, hybrids and cultivars resistant to diseases.

Zoya Tsekova – Agronomist, MSc

Office: 13 km
E-mail: kmeti@abv.bg
Scientific interests: Хибридизация; характеристика и оценка на получените хибриди; скрининг за стопански признаци.

Denitsa Ignatova – Biologist, MSc

Office: 13 km
E-mail: ignatova_denitsa@abv.bg
Scientific interests: Field experiments.

Svetlana Kamenova – Biologist, MSc

Office: 13 km
E-mail: svetla_ka@mail.bg
Scientific interests: Field experiments.

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