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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Dr. Natallia Valasevich from the Republic of Belarus does research in the field of plant virology. She obtained a grant from the Humboldt Foundation and chose the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), respectively the JKI-Institute of Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture in Dossenheim for her research stay in Germany. The JKI ist the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants and assigned to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
During her one-year stay (1st March 2015 to 29th February 2016) Dr. Valasevich will study in the working group of Dr. Bernd Schneider, a national as well as international well known specialist for phytoplasmas. She will focuse her work on the characterization of Belarusian fruit tree phytoplasmas. Above all she is interested to identify quarantine species as early as possible in infected trees and infected plant propagating material. Thus her aim is to develop a sensitive and rapid detection method for theses pathogens.
During her PhD Dr. Valasevich worked one year at the Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics in Uppsala, Sweden. Thereafter she stayed for ten months at the Research Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice, Poland working on the characterization of Apple mosaic virus isolates from Poland and Belarus. Since then she holds a position as research scientist at the Department of Biotechnology, Institute for Fruit Growing in Samochvalovichi, Republic of Belarus. The Humboldt Foundation is organizing networking and research exchange meetings in Bremen and Berlin, respectively to promote discussion, collaboration and knowledge transfer.
Background information
Phytoplasmas are specialized bacterial pathogens inhabiting the sieve tubes of infected plants. The bacteria are vectored by phloem-feeding insects and occur in all parts of the world causing important diseases in wild and cultivated plants. Until today phytoplasmas can`t be cultured in vitro. Therefore, little is known on their metabolic pathways and their interaction with host plants. The team at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) is working in basic and applied phytoplasma research.
The Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, is both a federal research institute and a higher federal authority. Its main office is located in Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt). Currently, 1200 staff members, of whom 300 are scientists, work in 16 specialized institutes or in one of the service units, such as library, data processing or administration. Apart from the institutes based in Quedlinburg, the JKI provides research facilities in nine further sites in Germany. JKI activities are centred on cultivated plants as such. It does research in the fields of plant genetics, cultivation of crops, plant nutrition, soil science, plant protection and plant health. Its broad competence enables the JKI to develop holistic concepts for crop cultivation as a whole, ranging from crop production to plant care.
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