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.
ДМУ-03/60 Oxidative stress in economically important plant species and possibilities for its alleviation by application of ecologically friendly substances (2011-2013). Project Leader: Assist. Prof. D. Todorova. Partners: Institute of organic chemistry with centre of phytochemistry – BAS, Institute of biophysics and Biomedical Engineering – BAS.
ДМУ-03/55 Application of biotechnological and bioinformatics methods to produce in vitro biomass from the endangered medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea (golden root), and to increase the production of biologically active substances (2011-2013). Project Leader: Assist. Prof. K. Tasheva. Partners: Institute of organic chemistry with centre of phytochemistry – BAS, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics – Sofia University.
ДНТС India 01/2 Influence of stress on metabolites with nutritional value and protective function of Indian and Bulgarian soybean genotypes obtained by biotechnology and genetic methods (2013-2015). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. G. Kosturkova.
In vivo and in vitro study of biotic and abiotic stress, development of innovative methods for overcoming of stresses and for protection of the natural environment (2010–2013). Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. G. Kosturkova.
Study and optimization of the biological activity of synthetic and natural plant growth regulators. Mechanisms of stress-induced changes and enhanced sustainability of different plant species to diverse abiotic stress factors by plant growth regulators, allelopathy, etc. (2009-2012). Project Leader: Prof. V. Alexieva.
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.
Hormonal regulation in higher plants under abiotic stress– Bilateral cooperation IPPG – BAS and IEB – CAS. Project leader: Assoc. Prof. L. Atanasova. Partner: Institute of Experimental Botany – Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.
Chemical regulation of the stress tolerance in plants. Bulgaria-Belgium bilateral research agreement. Partner – VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, University of Gent (2014–2015). Project leader: Prof. V. Alexieva.
Interaction between stress, role of oxidative events, protective effects of H2O2 and other xenobiotics . Bilateral cooperation with Taiwan, Partner – University of Changhua, Taiwan (2014–2015). Project leader: Prof. V. Alexieva.
Alleviation of adverse effects of water stress on cereals by application of plant growth regulators. Bulgaria-Egypt bilateral research agreement (2013–2015). Project leader: Assist. Prof. D. Todorova.
Alleviation of adverse effects of temperature stress on mono- and dicotyledonous crops by application of plant growth regulators. Bulgaria-Lithuania bilateral research agreement (2013–2015). Project leader: Assist. Prof. D. Todorova.
Harnessing plant reproduction for crop improvement. EC COST ACTION FA0903 (2011-2013). Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. G. Kosturkova, MC member. Partners: 10 countries (Italy, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria).
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.
Operational Program “Human Resources Development”, scheme for granting financial aid from the European Social Fund (2007-2013), Ministry of Education, Youth and Science, Republic of Bulgaria: GBG051PO001-3.3 on “Support for building and developing young competitive scientific potential in the field of the physiology, phytochemistry, genomics, proteomics and biodiversity of eukaryotic organisms” (2012-2015). Partners: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”, Faculty of Biology, Department of Genetics and Department of Zoology and Anthropology and Institute of Organic Chemistry with Center for Phytochemistry – BAS. Project leader: Assoc. Prof. L. Penkov. Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. D. Todorova.
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.
