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Experts in Plant Sciences
Soumana Datta Sumita Kachhwaha Vidya Patni Ramani Payal Lodha Rao D.V Sharma Ramavtar Sharma Manju Manmohan Arya Navneet Singh Chaudhary Gunjan Dubey Shika Gupta Amit Kotiya Anil Kumar Lalita Rishi Kesh Meena VINAY KUMAR MEENA Praveen Mohil Aparna Pareek Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Dr Richard J. Colgan View MoreValentina Spanic
Associate Professor
Agriculture and Forestry
Agriculture Genetics Institute
Croatia
In last 11 years she was engaged in wheat breeding and wheat genetics research, where she combined classical breeding with modern technologies. Ii was focused on Fusarium resistance, and later she was working on rusts in USA, University of Minnesota and Australia, University of Sydney, where she had spent few months. As a Fulbright Fellow, she had learned how to manage QTLs. At Agricultural Institute Osijek, she was working on classical breeding, where she was a co-breeder in wheat varieties. she had established Fusarium inoculum production and she was trying to combine resistance with research on physiology of plant. Through KWS-Borlaug stipendium for few months she was working on disease resistance, hybrid wheat production, and evaluation of genetic diversity with SNP markers.
Wheat breeding and genetics