Staff

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Adamides George - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)
Christou Anastasis - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Natural Resources and Environment)

Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403113
Email: achristou@ari.moa.gov.cy

Research Interests

Cellular and molecular responses of strawberry to salt, osmotic and heat stress
Priming approaches for enhancing plant abiotic stress resistance
Impacts and risk assessment of wastewater reuse for irrigation in the environment and public health
Fate and plant uptake of micro-pollutants and compounds of emerging concern (CECs)
Phytoremetiation as a tool for retrieving marginal and polluted soils

Dalias Panagiotis - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Natural Resources and Environment)

Emmanouelidou Maria - Agricultural Research Officer (Fruit Trees)

Fasoula Dionysia - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Improvement)

Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403124
Email: dfasoula@ari.moa.gov.cy

Research Interests

Plant Breeding and Genetics-Molecular Genetics
Prognostic Breeding– Innovative Methodology of Plant Breeding for cultivar development, exploitation of epigenetic phenomena, mitigation of biotic and abiotic stressors/Climate Change
Plant Breeding for Organic and Low-Input Agriculture – Participatory Approaches- Traditional varieties
Epigenetic phenomena in Plant Breeding-Epigenomics
Systems Biology
Precision Agriculture

Giannakopoulou Marianthi - Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)

Hadjipavlou Georgia - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Animal Production)

Ioannidou Sotiroula - Agricultural Research Officer (Fruit Trees)

Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403219
Email: sioannidou@ari.moa.gov.cy

Research Interests

Research work aiming on the improvement of yield and quality of deciduous fruit trees in local environmental conditions and optimizing production cost.
Modern cropping systems and agricultural practices in deciduous fruit-trees.
Evaluation of Cherry Varieties (Prunus avium L.)
Ex situ evaluation of local pomegranate clones (Punica granatum L.)
Integrated Fruit Production- Sustainable Horticulture

Ioannou Stavroula - Agricultural Research Officer (Rural Development)

Kapari-Isaia Theodora - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Plant Protection)

Kyratzis Angelos - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Vegetables)

Kyriacou Marios - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Vegetables)

Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403221
Email: mkyriacou@ari.moa.gov.cy

Research Interests
Postharvest physiology and technology of horticultural crops

Physiological, physicochemical and phytochemical characterization of fresh produce quality ripening and senescence
Farm-to-fork etiology of produce quality: linking preharvest factors to postharvest performance of fresh produce
Rootstock-mediated effects on vegetable quality and postharvest behavior
Control of postharvest physiological disorders by non-chemical treatments
Carbohydrate metabolism and tuber dormancy

Mina Kyriacos - Agricultural Research Officer (Cultivar Registration Center)

Neocleous Damianos - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Natural Resources and Environment)

Omirou Michalis - Agricultural Research Officer A΄ (Agrobiotechnology)

Pallides Andreas - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Improvement)

Papadavid George - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Rural Development)

Papayiannis Lambros - Agricultural Research Officer A’ (Plant Protection)

Pitta Christina - Senior Agricultural Research Officer (Plant Improvement)

Contact Information
Tel.: +357-22403125
Email: cpitta@ari.moa.gov.cy

Research Interests