Tatiana Sergeyevna ANTONOVA
Head of the laboratory of immunity
Doctor of biology
Tel: (861) 275-86-53
Fax: (861) 254-27-80
E-mail: antonоva-ts@mail.ru
The Laboratory of immunity was established in 1998 and solves the following tasks:
— evaluating the parent material for breeding developed in the department of sunflower breeding for resistance to diseases caused by the most dangerous pathogens, such as broomrape, downy mildew pathogen, rust pathogen, fungi causing Phoma rot, Fusarium blight, stem blight, and others;
— improving and developing new methods for evaluating the resistance of sunflower plants to diseases;
— studying the biological properties of pathogens of sunflower diseases;
— phytopathological examination of seed infection;
— identifying and monitoring new races of sunflower broomrape in the regions of sunflower cultivation in the Russian Federation;
— identification and monitoring of new races of the sunflower downy mildew pathogen in the Krasnodar region;
— identification and monitoring of new races of the sunflower rust pathogen in the regions of sunflower cultivation in the Russian Federation.