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.

Publications:

2025

2024

• Kazakov P., Alseekh S., Ivanova V., Gechev T. (2024)
  • Biostimulant-based molecular priming improves crop quality and enhances yield of raspberry and strawberry fruits. Metabolites. 14(11): 594. (IF 3.4)

• Steimker J., Tripodi P., Wendenburg R., Tringovska I., Nankar A., Stoeva V., Pasev G., Klemmer A., Todorova V., Bulut M., Tikunov Y., Bovy A., Gechev T., Kostova D., Fernie A.R., Alseekh S. (2024)
  • The genetic architecture of the pepper metabolome and the biosynthesis of its signature capsianoside metabolites. Current Biology. 34(18): 4209-4223.e3. (IF 8.1)

• Todorova. V., Nankar A.N., Yankova V., Tringovska I., Markova D. (2024)
  • Assessment of Balkan Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) accessions for agronomic, fruit quality, and pest resistance traits. Horticulturae. 10(4): 389. (IF 3.1)

2023

• Varalakshmi S., Sahoo S., Singh N.K., Pareek N., Garkoti P., Senthilkumar V., Kashyap S., Jaiswal J.P., Jacob S.R., Nankar A.N. (2023)
  • Marker–Trait association for protein content among maize wild accessions and coix using SSR markers. Agronomy. 13(8): 2138. (IF 3.949)

2022

• Radeva-Ivanova V., Pasev G., Lyall R., Angelov M., Nankar A.N., Kostova D. (2022)
  • First report of cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus causing yellowing disease on pumpkin (cucurbita pepo) and cucumber (cucumis sativus) in Bulgaria. APS Journal. DOI: doi: 10.1094/PDIS-09-21-2030-PDN. (IF 4.025)

2021

• Grozeva S., Pasev G., Radeva-Ivanova V., Todorova V., Ivanova V., Nankar A.N. (2021)
  • Double Haploid Development and Assessment of Androgenic Competence of Balkan Pepper Core Collection in Bulgaria. Plants. 10(11): 2414. (IF 3.935)

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: 3.935)

• 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 3.935)

• 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 3.240)

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)