Introduction - MATE Doctoral Schools
Plant Sciences
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Introduction
Last modified: 10. October 2023
The School has been established by unifying three former PhD programs aimed at providing the students with up-to-date knowledge in disciplines such as soil management, crop production, grassland management, seed production, plant genetics, breeding and biotechnology, plant pathology and agricultural entomology, weed control and integrated pest control. Candidates are taught and supervised by internationally renowned professors and researchers mainly from Szent István University as well as from other research institutes that belong to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, respectively. Research facilities required for PhD studies are available from the above-mentioned institutions.
The major PhD Program areas are:
• Plant molecular genetics and gene technology
• Plant cell genetics and tissue culturing
• Molecular markers and molecular plant breeding
• Classical genetics and traditional plant breeding
• Arthropod assemblages and pests and predators of agroecosystems,
• Fungal diseases of crop plants, biology and variability of pathogens, and alternative control
• Theory and practice of weed management
• Physiology and biochemistry of resistance in plants to pathogens
• Microbe antagonists and biological control
• Soil tillage and land use
• Soil compaction and remediation
• Agroecological impacts on yield and quality of field crops
• Grassland and pasture management
• Gene bank and field crop variety research
• Theoretical basis of new technologies in horticultural crop production
Head of Doctoral School: Prof. Dr. Lajos Helyes, MHAS
Scientific coordinator: Dr. András Neményi, PhD
