Erik Alexandersson

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

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

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

Possible MSc projects

Director of PlantLink - a plant reserach network at Lund University and SLU Alnarp

Coordinator of NordPlant

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

Find my publications here