Projects

Projects of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia

• A toolkit for risk assessment integration in modeling a management strategy for stolbur phytoplasma associated diseases in sustainable agriculture. STOLKit- 6060914, Program for Excellent Projects of Young Researchers;
• Insights into the microbiome of crown gall tumors on different plants in Serbia, MICROS – 6431425, Serbian Science and Diaspora Collaboration Program.

Projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development

• TR31018: Elaboration of integrated management and application of modern principles of pest control in plant protection;
• TR31037: Integral crop cultivation systems: conservation of biodiversity and soil fertility;
• TR31063: Application of new genotypes and technological innovations in order to improve fruit and vineyard production;
• TR31057: Investigations of the influence of mineral nutrition on the growth, development and yield of seeds of fodder species, the influence of pre-harvest and post-harvest treatments and growth regulators on seed quality indicators, the process of seed maturation and aging;
• TR31043: Study of plant pathogens, arthropods, weeds and pesticides in order to develop methods of biorational plant protection and safe food production;
• III46007: New autochthonous isolates of Lysobacter and Pseudomonas bacteria as an important choice of metabolites useful for biotechnology, plant growth stimulation and plant disease control: from isolates to preparations;
• III43001: Agrobiodiversity and land use in Serbia: an integrated assessment of the biodiversity of key groups of arthropods and plant pathogens;
• III46008: Development of integrated pest management systems in plant production with the aim of overcoming resistance and improving food quality and safety;
• III43010: Modifications of antioxidant metabolism of plants with the aim of increasing tolerance to abiotic stress and identification of new biomarkers with a change in remediation and monitoring of degraded habitats;
• OI173026: Molecular characterization of bacteria from the genera Bacillus and Pseudomonas as potential biological control agents;

Projects of the Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia

Science and economy cooperation program

• Bacteriocin based product against Erwinia amylovora, the Fire Blight Pathogen.

Innovation voucher program

• Improving seed quality and seedling growth for organic and conventional vegetable production;
• Development of biopesticides based on Bacillus spp. for the control of invasive nematodes in plant production;
• Development of preparations for the control of phytopathogenic fungi of fruits and vines;
• Determination of bioefficiency of isolated strain of Trichoderma spp. for new biopesticide registration;
• Development of preparations for the control of storage insects using bioinsecticides based on Bacillus spp.

International projects
 

• Epidemiology, genetic peculiarities and insect vectors of phytoplasma Flavescence doree in vineyards of Croatia and Serbia; Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia;
• Distribution, host plants and genetic characteristics of Drosophila suzukii Matsumura – a new invasive pest in fruit orchards of Montenegro and Serbia; Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro;
• Epidemiology and management strategy of stolbur phytoplasma in agroecosystems; SCOPES Joint research project, Swiss National Science Foundation;
• Epidemiology of Flavescence dorée, an European quarantine grapevine disease: the role of wild reservoir plants and potential insect vectors; Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and Italy;
• Morphology, population genetics and acoustic communication signals in taxonomy of Hyalesthes obsoletus species group – vectors of stolbur phytoplasma; Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Germany;
• Host specialization of aphid parasitoids; SCOPES Joint research project, Swiss National Science Foundation;
• Study of potential vectors of Stolbur phytoplasma in potato and corn; Bilateral project of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and Hungary;
• Impact of oilseed rape (OSR) production on functional biodiversity of predators and decomposers - development of management strategies for conservation and improvement in Croatia, Germany and Serbia; SEE-ERA.NET PLUS, FP7 program EU No ERA 51, GERCROSER-OSR-BIODIV;
• Grapevine phytoplasma diseases. Evaluation of the risk of the wild reservoir and study of the co-adaptation phytoplasma/insect vector; Intergovernmental program of bilateral scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of France "Pavle Savić";
• Grapevine phytoplasma diseases. Evaluation of the risk of the wild reservoir and study of the co-adaptation phytoplasma/insect vector; Program of bilateral scientific-technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of France;
• Global epidemiology of phytoplasma diseases of economic importance in Southeast Europe; SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call No. 10724;
• Landscape and regional context of insect agrobiodiversity in Southeastern Europe: a pilot survey of selected hemipteran pests, their parasitoids and predators, and bee pollinator diversity; SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call No. 9608;
• Investigations on potential biological control agents of Dalmatian and Yellow toadflaxes, Linaria dalmatica and L. vulgaris; Wyoming Weed and Pest Council Biological Control Steering Committee, USDA-APHIS National Biological Control Institute, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada;
• EuroXanth: Integrating science on Xanthomonadaceae for integrated plant disease management in Europe; COST Action CA16107;
• Knowledge Conversion for Enhancing Management of European Riparian Ecosystems and Services; COST Action CA16208;
• Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science; COST Action CA17122
• Integrated Management of Phytoplasma Epidemics in Different Crop Systems. COST Action FA0807.

Projects of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
 

• Grapevine yellows – epidemiology, distribution and program of control measures; No. 401-001973/2010-03;
• Study and suppression of Scaphoideus titanus vector of the grapevine yellows phytoplasma Flavescence dorée; No. 321-01-750/2004-11;
• Fauna Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) and their role in the epidemiology of phytoplasma spread in vineyards in Serbia; No. 401-00-4148/05-11;
• Monitoring of the grapevine yellows phytoplasma Flavescence dorée epidemiology in vineyards in Serbia; No. 401-00-7839/2006-11/9;
• Research on the etiology, epidemiology and measures to control maize redness - a new disease of maize in Serbia; No. 401-00-16422/2007-11/36-4;
• Resistance of weed plants to herbicides; No. 321-01-00881/2018-11.