报告题目：Genetic Resources of Jerusalem Artichoke From N.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry

报告人: 俄罗斯瓦维洛夫植物栽培研究所Stepan Kiru教授

时间: 2012年8月10日下午2:30-4:00

地点: 综合楼B316

报告人简介：

Title: Head of Department of Tuber Crops, N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR).
Education: State Doctor of biological sciences (2004), Ph.D of Agricultural Science (1989) VIR; M.Sc. in Agriculture Leningrad (now St.-Petersburg) Institute of Agriculture(1977).
Trainings - Wisconsin University, USA, 1995; Cornell University, USA 1999
Institutional affiliations: Since 2001 - Head of Department of Tuber Crops, VIR, Curator of Tuber Crops Genebank; 1995–2001 Senior Researcher; 1983–1995 - Researcher, Dep. of Tuber Crops, VIR.

Major projects: Maintaining, increasing and evaluation of VIR Tuber Crops Germplasm. He is responsible spokesman of VIR in APIC (Association of Potato Intergenebank Collaboration) as in European Associations IPGRI, EAPR, EUCARPIA. During 1998-2001 he was a participant of Joint Project of Cornell-Eastern Europe-Mexico (CEEM) in Potato Late Blight Control. In 2006-2007 he has a joint investigations in collaboration with scientists of Wisconsin University (USA). Since 2008 he has a joint collaborative project with Luxemburg Centre of Public Researches on Nutrition values of South-American cultivated potatoes.
Areas of expertise: Plant genetic resources; Tuber crops germplasm: introduction; botanical and morphological studying; evaluation and selecting valuable material for breeding. He is author of over 125 scientific papers. He is a member of Association of Potato Intergenebank Collaboration (APIC) and European CPGR Potato and Tuber Crops Working Group (representing VIR (Russian) Tuber Crops Genebank. He is a active member of International Organisаtion “Slow Food” &”Terra Madre”.
Statement of research interests: Plant Genetic Resources: Tuber Crops Germplasm Introduction; Botanical and morphological studying. Evaluation and singling out initial material for breeding.
Teaching responsibility: Lectures on Potato Growing and Seed Potato Production for Agronomists and Farmers in Training Program in the North-Western Academy of Agricultural business, St. Petersburg; also - lectures on Program of Potato Growing in St. Petersburg State Agrarian University for students of Faculty of Agronomy.

Main last publications:
• S. Kiru, S. Makovskaya, J. Bamberg, A. del Rio New sources of resistance to race Ro1 of the Golden nematode (Globodera rostochiensis Woll.) among reputed duplicate germplasm accessions of Solanum tuberosum subsp. andigena in the VIR (Russian) and US Potato Genebanks. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Vol 52 Issue 2, March, 2005. • S. Kiru, T. Gavrilenko et al. Conservation, evaluation and using in breeding of potato genetic diversity at N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) In: Potato production and innovative technologies. Edited by A. Havercort& B. Anisimov. Wageningen Publishers. 2007, Pp. 353-363.
• Kiru S., Rogozina E.. Use of VIR Potato collection’s genetic diversity as initial material for breeding“Agraarteadus”. Journal of agricultural sciences. Estonia.XIX.1. 2008.p.13-18.
• Kiru S. Ivan Nosenko New initial material for breeding of Jerusalem artichoke for high fructose content. Proceedings of II-th International Symposium on Jerusalem artichoke. Nanjing China, Okt, 20-25 2010.
• Kiru S., Nosenko I. Use genetic resources of Jerusalem artichoke collection of N.Vavilov Institute in breeding for bioenergy and health security. Agronomy research. Journal of Estonian Agrarian University, Estonia, 2010. #З.
• Gavrilenko T., Kiru S., et al. A microsatellite and morphological assessment of the Russian National Potato Collection. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Genet Resour Crop Evol (2010) 57:1151–1164.
• Kiru S., I. Nosenko Initial material for breeding of Jerusalem artichoke. Proceedings of III-th International Symposium on Jerusalem artichoke. Yinchuan, China, Aug 20-24 2011.Pp.3-6