Erik Alexandersson

Presentation
My research interests and projects:
- Functional genomics and ‘-omics’ data in field trials – linking molecular data with environmental cues, field phenotypes ("Field-omics")
- Induced resistance in potato varieties
- Transcriptomics and proteomics for biomarker discovery
- Global gene expression in the early blight (Alternaria) and late blight (Phytophthora)-potato/tomato interactions
- Understanding plant defense in wild relatives to potato
- Identifying potato late blight in the field with the help of drone-based image analysis (Vinnova FoodTech, EnBlightMe!, 6P2/6P3, NordPlant)
- Biofortification of cassava for improved pro-vitamin A content (Swedish Research Council developmental reseach)
- Botanicals and plant resistance inducers for sub-Saharan Africa (AgriFoSe1/2)
- Knowledge-exchange for enhanced genomic analysis of potato to control late blight, and increase drought tolerance together with ARC Pretoria (STINT/NRF)
- "Växtbioteknik i Afrika söder om Sahara - teknologiöverföring och nya policyer" VR Swedish Research Link
- Resistance breeding for healthy crops - Alternaria-Potato interactions (SLU Grogrund)
- Coordinator NordPlant - A Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates
Teaching
MSc course Plant Biology for Breeding and Protection, 15 ECTS
PhD course Plant Protection Biology (bi-annual) 7 ECTS
Member of ELLS subject areas Plant Health and Plant Molecular Breeding and Biotechnology and active in ESCAPAdE
Research
I'm currently involved in these larger projects:
“Public Private Partnership - Plant Phenotyping Project (6p): focus on disease in field ptoato”, NordForsk/NordGen, 2018-2020, 2021-2023
”NordPlant - A Climate and Plant Phenomics Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates”, NordForsk, 2018-2023
“Knowledge-exchange for enhanced genomic analysis of potato to control late blight, and increase drought tolerance” together with ARC Pretoria, STINT/NRF 2018-2023
"Plant Biotech in sub-Saharan Africa – technology transfer and new policies", VR Swedish Research Link, 2019-2022
“Biofortification of cassava”, VR development research, 2017-2022
“Pathogen Informed Resistance to Oomycete Diseases in Ecosystems, Agriculture and Aquaculture (PROTECTA)”, MSC-ITN EU, 2018-2022
“Plant resistance inducers – the next set of questions for future sustainable agriculture”, Formas, 2020-2022
“Resistensförädling för friska grödor – fokus torrfläcksjuka i potatis (Alternaria solani)”, SLU GroGrund, 2019-2023
“Search for novel enzymes from Ethiopia soda lakes through metagenomics” Addis Ababa Univeristy-SIDA, 2019-2022
KAP for biologicals for sub-Saharan Africa (AgriFoSe2), 2021-2022
Finished:
EnBlightMe! Identifying potato late blight in the field with the help of drone-based image analysis, Vinnova, 2017-2019
Botanicals and plant resistance inducers for sub-Saharan Africa (AgriFoSe), 2018-2019
Cooperation
Supervision
Current PhD students (main supervisor):
Priscilla Olayide
PhD students (co-supervisor):
Valentina Rossi
Oliyad Jeilu
Post docs:
Sajeevan Radha Sivarajan
Isaac Ilomo
Allan Mueke
MSc students:
Rizwan Choudhry
Previous students and post docs
Junfeng Gao
Sophie Brouwer
Linnea Stridh
Murilo Sandroni
Ingi Abdelmeguid
Shilu Dahal
Annabel Large
Thuongh Ha
Selected publications
Find my publications here