Plant-pathogen interactions

Photo: (a), (b) - wheat leaves infected with powdery mildew, (c) anther of Arabidopsis, (d) powdery mildew hyphae, (e) confocal microscope with 2 scanners, (f) TIRF/VAEM microscope with climate chamber.

Powdery mildew on a wheat leaf. Photos by Heiti Paves.

 

Staff

Kadri Järve	senior researcher, PhD (Moscow State Univ.)
Heiti Paves	senior researcher, PhD (Univ. of Tartu)
Hilma Peuša	senior researcher, PhD (St. Petersburg State Univ.)
Cecilia Sarmiento	senior researcher, PhD (Tallinn Univ. of Technology)
Merike Sõmera	researcher, PhD (Tallinn Univ. of Technology)
Ljudmilla Timofejeva	senior researcher, PhD (Univ. of Tartu)
Marina Toompuu	researcher, PhD (Univ. of Tampere)
Jelena Tsõmbalova	researcher, MSc (Estonian Univ. of Life Sci.)
Tamara Enno	senior researcher, DSc ((Inst. of Plant Physiol. and Genetics, Kiev, Ukraine)
Eve-Ly Ojangu	researcher, MSc (Tallinn Univ. od Technology)
Signe Nõu	engineer
Galina Sokolova	engineer
Kairi Kärblane	engineer
Lenne Nigul	assistant
Liina Kotkas	assistant
Kadri Vinkel	engineer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PhD students and their research topics

Birger Ilau	Viruses in myosin knockout plants
Irena Jakobson	Powdery mildew resistance in introgressive wheat line
Kristjan Kamsol	Movement of cocksfoot mottle virus
Diana Reis	Fine mapping of powdery mildew resistance gene in wheat
Kristiina Talts	Arabidopsis myosin VIIIB
Gabriela Uffert	Polyprotein of cocksfoot mottle virus
Bulat Islamov	Mechanisms of quantitative resistance in wheat
Karmen Tõnismann	Qualitative and quantitative resistance against Phytophthora in Estonian potato cultivars
Grete Nummert	Interactions between sobemoviruses and host plants
Jelena Gerassimenko	RNase L inhibitor as RNA silencing suppressor in plants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSc students

Jan Raidloo

Krista Tanner

Kärt Sõber

Ann-Katrin Kehlmann

Agnes Kivistik

Eliis Ihoma

Milana Ussatsova

Tõnis Relvik

Siim Maiste