Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER (former NAGREF)
General Directorship of Agricultural Research
Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops
1 Theophrastou street, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Tel. +30 2410 671301
Fax. +30 2410 671321
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Education
B.S. in Crop Production (1993), School of Agriculture/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
M.Sc. in ‘Genetics, Plant Breeding and Agronomy’ (1997), thesis entitled “Response to in vitro regeneration of immature zygotic cotton embryos (Gossypium sp.p) and chromosome duplication of haploid cotton plants”. School of Agriculture/lab. of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE
Ph.D. in Breeding (2009), thesis entitled “A study on selection systems for the development of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) varieties suitable to organic agriculture”. School of Agriculture/lab. of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE. Supervisor: Prof. Demetrios Roupakias
Specialty
Genetics and Plant Breeding (legumes, arable crops)
Research Interests
Genetics and Plant breeding, development of new varieties and novel breeding schemes, interplant competition and selection efficiency, GEI, varietal adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress, breeding for food/feed quality, cereal:legume intercropping, low-input agriculture, cultivation techniques, cultivar evaluation and seed production
Registration of Cultivars in the National Variety Catalogue
2016. Registration of common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) cultivar “LEONIDAS” in the National Variety Catalogue.
2016. Registration of lentil (Lens culinaris L.) cultivar “ELPIDA” in the National Variety Catalogue.
2019. Registration of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) cultivar “MALEME-107” in the National Variety Catalogue.
2020. Registration of field pea (Pisum sativus L.) cultivar “OSSA” in the National Variety Catalogue.