ORCiD iD: 0000-0001-9160-5192
Tel. +370 620 94 113
E-mail: zita.maknickiene@lammc.lt
Žalioji a. 2, LT-02232 Vilnius, Lithuania
Education
1979–1985 Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).
Academic degree
1992 Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, dissertation "Influence of defoliation, desiccation and growth regulators on seed yield and quality in yellow lupine growing mixtures"
Research fields
- Yellow fodder lupine breeding and seedlings
- Narrow-leafed forage lupine breeding and seedlings
- Narrow-leafed low-alkaloid,nutritious lupine breeding and seedlings
- Narrow-leafed sideral lupine breeding and seedlings
- Lupine (Lupinus luteus L. and Lupinus angustifolius L.) genetic resources research
Position
Since 2021 Researcher, Vokė Branch, Institute of Agriculture, LAMMC
Involvement in programmes and projects
- 2002–2017 European Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Programme
- 2002–2014 Preservation of Plant Genetic Resources of the Nordic Countries and the Baltic States
- 1998–2002 Investigation and Conservation of Lithuanian Plant and Animal Genetic Resources
Plant varieties developed
- Low alkaloid narrow-leafed lupine variety ‘VB Pilkiai’
- Low alkaloid narrow-leafed lupine variety ‘VB Rausviai’
- Siderace narrow-leafed forage lupine variety ‘VB Melsviai’
- Narrow-leafed forage lupine variety ‘Antaniai’
- Narrow-leafed forage lupine variety ‘Ugniai’
- Narrow-leafed forage lupine variety ‘Derliai’
- Narrow-leafed forage lupine variety ‘Vilniai’
- Yellow fodder lupine variety ‘Vilčiai’
- Yellow fodder lupine variety ‘Trakiai’
- Yellow fodder lupine variety ‘Augiai’ (co-author)
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