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Director of Laboratory : Associate Professor Stavros Vemmos

Research interests :

  • Asexual propagation with cuttings and micropropagation of fruit trees.

  • Alternate bearing in olive, pistachio and citrus.

  • Effects of growth regulators on fruit quality.

  • Effects of soil amendments on fruit quality.

  • Stress responses of various fruit tree rootstocks.

  • Effects of shading on fruiting of the olive cultivar Koroneiki.

  • The effect of genotype, nutrient and water stress on the physiological and morphological characteristics of the root and shoot system of the olive tree.

  • Studies on the ripening of detached olive fruits.

  • Storage of fresh fig fruits under controlled atmospheres at different temperatures.

  • Storage of lemons after postharvest treatments.

  • Studies of photosynthesis and carbohydrates in fruit trees.

  • Nutrition and fertilization of pistachio and other fruit trees.

  • Identification of Greek pistachio and olive using molecular markers.

  • Bud dormancy biochemistry.