Projects
Financed by the National Science Fund
КП-06-Н76/5 “Biotechnological approaches for targeted accumulation of secondary metabolites in the medicinal plant Arnica montana L. and study of the biosynthetic pathway of sesquiterpene lactones” (2023-2026). Project leader: Assist. Prof. Maria Petkova
КП-06-Н66/7 Comparative analysis of the physiological effects of melatonin on Bulgarian wheat varieties with different drought resistance (2022-2025). Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Iskren Sergiev.
КП-06-Н56/16 Effectiveness of extracts from cultivated Bulgarian medicinal plants as potential therapeutic agents in socially significant diseases (2022-2025). Project leader: Assist. Prof. Krasimira Tasheva.
КП-06-Н56/15 Тhe ancient wheat – growth and physiological characteristics under unfavorable stress factors and possibilities to alleviate the negative effects (2022-2025). Project Leader: Assist. Prof. Irina Moskova.
КП-06-Н36/3 Assessment of the physiological responses of wheat and triticale to soil drought and waterlogging after routine application of selective herbicide (2020-2023). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova.
КП-06/Н36-1 Study of bacteriophage-phytopathogen-plant pathosystem for control of bacteriosis on economically important crops (2020-2023). Project Leader: Assist. Prof. E. Shopova.
КП-06-Н56/8 Influence of newly synthesized amino acid nanofibers carriers of biologically active agents on in vitro propagation and accumulation of secondary metabolites in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni (2021-2025). Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Maria Geneva. Participants from the lab: Assist. Prof. M. Petrova, Res. T. Nedev.
КП-06-Н31/17 Genome wide association study of grain yield, grain protein content and grain nitrogen concentration in Bulgarian bread wheat germplasm (2019-2022). Project Leader: Prof. Svetlana Misheva. Participant from the lab: Assist. Prof. K. Tasheva.
International cooperation
HormOnDrought – Physiological and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance after treatment with phytohormones. Bulgaria-Lithuania bilateral research agreement (2022-2024). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. I. Vaseva. Participants from the lab: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova, Assoc. Prof. I. Sergiev, Assist. Prof. Z. Katerova.
Assessment of ability of synthetic auxin type compounds to counteract herbicide stress in crop plants. Bulgaria-Lithuania bilateral research agreement (2019-2021). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova.
Mitigation of adverse effects of abiotic stress on cereals by application of plant growth regulators. Bulgaria-Egypt bilateral research agreement (2019-2021). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova.
Plant growth regulators – tools for increasing plants tolerance to temperature stress. Bulgaria-Lithuania bilateral research agreement (2016-2018). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova.
Other Projects
National Research Program: „Environmental protection and reduction of the risk for adverse climate changes“ (2019-2023). Project coordinator from IPPG – BAS: Prof. Valya Vassileva. Participants form the lab: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova, Assoc. Prof. I. Sergiev, Assist. Prof. E. Shopova.
ДФНП 205/16.06.2016 Activity, isoenzyme profile and expression of glutathione reductase in pea (Pissum sativum L.) (2016-2017). Project leader: Assist. Prof. E. Shopova.