Dr. Aleksandra Ponitka

email: apon@igr.poznan.pl
tel. (+48 61) 65 50 222

Field of specialisation:

Research interests:

Research on obtaining haploids and doubed haploids of cereals by using anther culture and isolated microspores. Regeneration and transformation of hemps.

Co-operation:

• Instytut Biochemii i Biologii Molekularnej - Uniwersytet Wrocławski,
• Plant breeding: Szelejewo, Hodowla Roślin DANKO - Choryń, Poznańska Hodowla Roślin, Małopolska Hodowla Roślin, Hodowla Roślin - Nasiona Kobierzyc

Organization of events:

• School course "Haploids, doubled haploids, cereal hybrid proembryo and embryo culture" - IGR PAS, Poznań, 18 - 19 April 2001.

Publications:

1. Ponitka A., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A. (1996). Anther culture response in F1 hybrids of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). J. Appl. Genet. 37: 253-256.
2. Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Ponitka A. (1997). Effect of genotype and media composition on embryoid induction and plant regeneration from anther culture in triticale. J. Appl. Genet. 38: 253-258. Ponitka A., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Wędzony M., Marcińska I., Woźna J. (1998). Anther culture response of triticale substitution lines. The 13th Symposium of the Polish Genetics Society, Warszawa, 22-25 września, J. Appl. Genet. 39A: 100-101.
3. Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Ponitka A., Wędzony M., Marcińska I., Woźna J. (1998). Production of haploids and DH lines in triticale. IX International Congress on Plant Tissue and Cell Culture. Jerusalem, Israel, 14-19 June 1998. Abstracts: 177.
4. Wędzony M., Marcińska I., Ponitka A., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Woźna J. (1998). Production of doubled haploids in triticale (´ Triticosecale Wittm.) by means of crosses with maize (Zea mays L.) using picloram and dicamba. Plant Breed. 117: 211-215.
5. Zwierzykowski Z., Zwierzykowska E., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Ponitka A. (1998). Regeneration of anther-derived plants from pentaploid hybrids of Festuca arundinacea ´ Lolium multiflorum. Euphytica 103: 1-5.
6. Ponitka A., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Wędzony M., Marcińska I., Woźna J. (1999). The influence of various in vitro culture conditions on androgenetic embryo induction and plant regeneration from hexaploid triticale (´ Triticosecale Wittm.). J. Appl. Genet. 40: 165-174.
7. Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Ponitka A., Wojciechowska B., Woźna J. (2000). Rapid assessment of early embryo development in some wide crosses of cereals. J. Appl. Genet. 41: 75-80.
8. Leśniewska A., Ponitka A., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Zwierzykowska E., Zwierzykowski Z., James A.R., Thomas H., Humphreys M.W. (2001). Androgenesis from Festuca pratensis ´ Lolium multiflorum amphidiploid cultivars in order to select and stabilize rare gene combinations for grass breeding. Heredity 86: 167-176.
9. Ponitka A., Ślusarkiewicz-Jarzina A., Wojciechowska B. (2002). Production of haploids and doubled haploids of the amphiploids Aegilops variabilis ´ Secale cereale. Cereal Res. Comm. 30: 39-45.