Emil Rekanović, PhD – Principal Research Fellow

Ph.D. Emil Rekanović

Laboratory
Laboratory  of Phytopathology

Research Rank
Principal Research Fellow

Education
2000 - Graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Plant and food product protection, University of Belgrade
2009 - PhD from the Faculty of Agriculture, Biotechnical Sciences (field of agronomic sciences), University of Belgrade

Research Filed
Biotechnical Sciences - Agriculture - Plant Protection (Phytomedicine).

Study of the effects of conventional and biorational fungicides and bactericides on disease-causing agents of cultivated plants and mushrooms; study of the effects of plant resistance activators on cultivated plant pathogens; examination of toxicity, resistance and biological efficiency of fungicides and biofungicides against phytopathogenic fungi and bacteria in in vitro and in vivo conditions; examination of the emergence of resistance of natural and laboratory-induced isolates of pathogenic fungi and pseudofungi; study of etiology and epidemiology of plant diseases and cultivated mushrooms; identification and characterization of quarantine and economically harmful phytopathogenic bacteria and phytoplasmas.

Participation in projects
Participant in four national scientific projects (2002 - 2019)
Participant in research funded by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation (2020 - )
Participant of the Science Fund project "SUGARBETY - Rubbery Taproot Disease of Sugar Beet: Etiology, Epidemiology and Control" (2021 – 2024)

Activities, responsibilities and mentorship
Director of the Institute (2015 – )
Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute
Member of the Management Board of the Institute for Science Application in Agriculture (2014 – 2019)
Member of the Professional Board for Organic Production
Member of the editorial board of the national scientific journal "Pesticides and Phytomedicine" (M24)
Mentoring work with master's and doctoral students in the field of phytopharmacy

Membership in national and international organizations
Society for Plant Protection of Serbia

Bibliography
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5877-3207
Enauka: https://enauka.gov.rs/cris/rp/rp09532/indicators.html

Contact
E mail: emil.rekanovic@pesting.org.rs