Erland Liljeroth
Professor
Department of Plant Health Biology
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden
Biography
Erland Liljeroth is a Professor at the Department of Plant Health Biology in Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He did PhD in ”Interactions between plants and microorganisms”, 1990 and Post Doc at Research Institute Ital, Netherlands (1991). He was working as a Researcher at SLU, Sweden 1992-1995, 1997-2012. He was the Lecturer with extension duties. Now he is working as a professor in Plant Protection.
Research Interest
Plant defence and induced resistance and practical applications of alternative plant protection methods and traditional pesticides to obtain efficient disease control with minimized use of pesticides.
Publications
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Liljeroth E, Lankinen Ã…, Wiik L, Burra DD, Alexandersson E, et al.,(2016) Potassium phosphite combined with reduced doses of fungicides provides efficient protection against late blight in large-scale field trials. Crop Protection 86: 42-55.
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Alexandersson E, Mulugeta T, Lankinen Å, Liljeroth E, Andreasson E. (2016) Plant Resistance Inducers against Pathogens in Solanaceae Species—From Molecular Mechanisms to Field Application. International Journal of Molecular Science. In Press.
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Odilbekov F, Edin E, Garkava-Gustavsson L, Persson-egnaHovmalm H, Liljeroth E (2016) Genetic diversity and occurrence of the F129L substitutions among isolates of Alternaria solani in south-eastern Sweden. Hereditas 153.
