| The Department of Plant Pathology and
Immunology identifies disease-causing agents and studies their
bioecology; investigates the sources of infection and the dynamics of
dissemination of fungal pathogens in soil; performs analysis of strain
and genetic composition of pathogens; tests varieties and lineages of
cereal crops in order to identify sources of resistance for the means
of immunoselection.
Scientific staff:
Tzenko Dimitrov Vatchev
Ph. D. in Plant Pathology
Head of Department of Plant Pathology and Immunology
vatchevnet@yahoo.com
Dr Vatchev has coordinated and participated in several research projects
focused on the control of a wide range of soilborne diseases or disease
complexes in various cereal, flower, and vegetable crops. The management
strategies being developed are based on environmentally friendly alternatives
to soil disinfestation, improvement of soil ecosystem’s suppression
of causal fungal or nematode organisms and diseases they incite, biological
control with specific agents, organic amendments, cultural control
practices and enhanced varietal resistance to the pathogens.
Svetla Nedelcheva Maneva
Associate Researcher
sve_ma@yahoo.com
• Computer models working in real time for prediction of apearance,
severity and incidence of plant diseases on the base of agrometeorological
parameters;
• Mathematical modeling of processes related with plant protection
and the environmental changes;
• Statistical methods for estimation of small sets of biological
data.
Irena Ilieva Bogoeva
Associate Researcher
irenbog@yahoo.com
• Accumulation and toxicity of copper and other heavy metals
in cereal crops. Investigation of plant’s physiological reaction
to heavy metal stress;
• Examination of the possibilities of different agricultural
crops for phytoremediation of technogenically polluted soils.
Militsa Ivanova Stefcheva
Researcher – phytopathologist
mstefcheva@mail.bg
Research interests аnd main research activities:
• Different types of wheat resistance to Puccinia recondita f. sp.
tritici.;
• Studies of virulence and molecular polymorphism in Puccinia recondita
f. sp. tritici populations in Bulgaria;
• Wheat Immunobreeding to diseases.
Zoya Ilieva Krastanova
Senior Specialist, Agrotechnician
• Maintainance and safety of laboratory equipment;
• Collection and preservation of pathogen samples;
• Experimental inoculation with pathogens and evaluation
of the results in the field;
• Cultivation of greenhouse tomato crops.
Elenka Yordanova Timova
Senior Specialist, Agrotechnician
• Maintainance and safety of laboratory equipment;
• Collection and preservation of pathogen samples;
• Experimental inoculation with pathogens and evaluation
of the results in the field;
• Cultivation of ornamental and oil-bearing plants in
greenhouses and open fields.
Troyanka Georgieva Georgieva
Senior specialist agro technician
• Fungal diseases on wheat and barley.
|
