Vegetable Breeding

Valuable vegetable germplasm will be assessed for resistance to biotic and abiotic stress factors under controlled conditions at Maritsa MVCRI as well as by joint selection with farmers under target environment. Genetic investigations on host resistance will be carried out in order to establish the type of resistance, mode of its inheritance and stabilization in progenies. Breeding lines, F1 hybrids and direct varieties with valuable traits will be created based on conventional and progressive biotechnological methods as marker assisted selection, etc. Joint research programs are envisaged with other departments of the CPSBB.

Head of Department:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Kostova	dkostova2011@gmail.com
Members:
Dr. Amol Nankar	nankar@cpsbb.eu
Valentina Ivanova	vivanova@cpsbb.eu

Publications:

2020

Grozeva S., Tringovska I., Nankar A., Todorova V., Kostova D. (2020) Assessment of fruit quality and fruit morphology in androgenic pepper lines (Capsicum annuum L.). Crop Breeding Genetics and Genomics. 2(1):e200005

Nankar A.N., Scott M.P., Pratt R.C. (2020) Compositional analyses reveal relationships among components of blue maize grains. Plants. 9: 1775 (IF: 2.762)

Nankar A.N., Tringovska I., Grozeva S., Ganeva D., Kostova D. (2020) Tomato phenotypic diversity determined by combined approaches of conventional and high-throughput Tomato Analyzer phenotyping. Plants. 9: 197. (IF: 2.762)

Nankar A.N., Todorova V., Tringovska I., Pasev G., Radeva V., Ivanova V., Kostova D. (2020) A step towards Balkan Capsicum annuum L. core collection: Phenotypic and biochemical characterization of 180 accessions for agronomic, fruit quality, and virus resistance traits. PLoS ONE. 15(8): e0237741 (IF 2.740)

2019

Denev P., Todorova V., Ognyanov M., Georgiev Y., Yanakieva I., Tringovska I., Grozeva S., Kostova D. (2019) Phytochemical composition and antioxidant activity of 63 Balkan pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) accessions. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization. 13: 2510– 2520. (IF 1.415)

Nankar A., Tringovska I., Grozeva S., Todorova V., Kostova D. (2019) Application of high-throughput phenotyping tool Tomato Analyzer to characterize Balkan Capsicum fruit diversity. Scientia Horticulturae. 260. (IF 1.961)