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Scientific areas and topics of the programs
1. Horticultural biology:
- Horticultural botany, plant anatomy, taxonomy, plant geography, ecology, coenology;
- Physiology, cytology, morphology, taxonomy and coenology of wild growing mushrooms;
- Physiology and stress behaviour of horticultural species, interaction of host/parazites/symbionts;
- Regulation of plant tissue cultures and physiology of micropropagation;
- Molecular bases of physiological processes – applied system-biology;
- Classical and molecular genetics and plant breeding – studies on gene expression;
- Population genetics, application of molecular markers in plant breeding.
2. Ornamental plants and dendrology:
- in-vitro propagation in new ornamental plant cultures;
- macropropagation methods of woody plants, juvenility, histological and chemical studies;
- development of nursery technologies;
- examinations on water- and nutrient supply of ornamentals;
- gene-reservation, selection, breeding of ornamental- and stockplant cultivars;
- application of ornamental species, stress-tolerance, introduction;
- green-roofs, indoor and balcony plants, physiology, technology.
3. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants:
- biosynthesis of active materials, accumulation, chemotaxonomy;
- ecological and production-biological studies;
- gene-reservation, introduction;
- genetical bases, breeding;
- development of agrotechnology, modelling of production chain;
- the role of medicinal and alternative plants in ecological production.
4. Fruit bearing plants:
- biological bases: evaluation of varieties, floral- and fertilisation biology;
- gene-reservation, pomology and genetics, studies on of genetic resources;
- resistance breeding including determination of molecular genetical markers;
- health protection active materials of fruit species;
- propagation-physiological bases of nursery practices;
- ecological adaptation capacity and water transport of fruit species and varieties;
- agrotechnical systems, environment friendly cultivation and post harvest methods, development of mechanisation and special equipments.
5. Viticulture:
- Biological bases, evaluation of varieties;
- Interactions of qualitative and quantitative parameters of the products;
- Weather-climate effects, role of year and habitat in the quality oriented wine production;
- Leaf surface and yield regulation, their physiological bases;
- Management and development of habitat register system;
- Analysis of chemical characteristics of soil, plant and wine;
- Chemistry, microbiology and technological development of oenology.
6. Vegetables and cultivated fungi:
- Soil mixtures, growth substances, nutrient demand, fertilisation, water supply, regulation;connection of nutrient supply and crop quality;
- Development of growth technologies of edible fungi, introduction of exotic mushroom species;
- Agrotechnical innovation of Hungaricum species (especially forced sweet pepper);
- Climatization of greenhouses, development of machinery and equipment system of vegetable growing;
- Scientific problems of ecological vegetable cultivation;
- Objective methods for crop quality checking.
7. Horticultural Plant Medicine:
- Pathology of infections and diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, phytoplasmas and fungi;
- General and local defence systems;
- Integrated plant protection methods; automatization of forecast of epidemics;
- Population dynamics of phytophagous and zoophagous insects;
- Entomological aspects of horticultural crops and their environments.
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