Head: Elena A. Sycheva

PhD (Biology), Associate Professor

E-mail: E.Sycheva@igc.by

Key directions of scientific research:

• Cytogenomics of grain crops, studying the structural and functional variability of genomes at molecular and cellular levels at distant hybridization, polyploidy and inbreeding;
• Studying of microevolutionary differentiation mechanisms of polyploid crop species;
• Experimental transformation of the genetic structure of cereal crops (rye, wheat, triticale, and secalotriticum) by chromosome engineering methods;
• Chromosomal and molecular marking of the new gene pool of tetraploid and hybrid (CMS) rye, recombinant tetraploid and hexaploid forms of triticale and secalotriticum; marker-assisted selection (MAS).

Key publications:

1. Dubovets, N. I., Sycheva, E. A., Solovey, L. A., Shtyk, T. I., Bondarevich, E. B. Development and molecular cytogenetic marking of secondary chromosome-substituted forms of hexaploid triticale (xTriticosecale Wittm.) // Vestsi, NAS of Belarus, Edition: Biological Sciences. – 2013. – No. 4. – P. 35–44.
2. Lyusikov, O. M., Gordey, I. A. Cytogenetic stabilization of secalotriticum genome (Triticosecale derzhavinii secalotriticum Rozenst., et Mittelst., S/RRAABB, 2n = 42) // Cytology and Genetics. – 2015. – Vol. 49. No. 2. – P. 48–55.
3. Lipikhina, Yu. A., Evtushenko, E. V., Gatskaya, S. S., Stepachkin, P. I., Lyusikov, O. M., Gordey, I. A., Vershinin, A. V. Expression of the gene activity of centromeric histone H3 in wheat and rye allopolyploid hybrids // Cytology. – 2016. – Vol. 58. No. 4. – P. 324–329.
4. Dubovets, N. I., Sycheva, Ye. A. Microevolutionary Differentiation of Cereal Tetraploid Species by the Formation of Recombinant Genomes / Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research. – 2017. – Vol. 7, № 3. – Р. 327–334.
5. Silkova, O. G., Ivanova, Y. N., Krivosheina, E. A., Bondarevich, E. B., Solovey, L. A., Sycheva, E. A., Dubovets, N. I. Wheat chromosome instability in the selfed progeny of the double monosomics 1Rv-1A // Biologia Plantarum. 2018, V. 62 (2), P. 241–249; DOI: 10.1007/s10535-017-0757-0.
6. Dubovets, N. I., Sycheva, E. A., Drobot, N. I., Bondarevich, E. B., Solovey, L. A., Silkova, O. G. Pre-breeding assessment of recombinant and introgressive rye-wheat hybrids by the allelic composition of dwarf genes Rht-B1, Rht-D1, Rht8 and Ddw1 // Vestsi of NAN Belarusi, Bial. Navuki, 2018., Vol. 63, No. 2, P. 146–154.
7. Lipikhina, Yu. A., Evtushenko, E. V., Lyusikov, O. M., Gordei, I. S., Gordei, I. A., Vershinin, A. V. Dynamics of the centromeric histone CENH3 structure in rye-wheat amphidiploids (Secalotriticum) // BioMed Research International. Volume 2018, ID 2097845, DOI:10.1155/2018/2097845.

Monographs:

I. Gordey, I. A., Belko, N. B., Lyusikov, O. M. Secalotriticum (xSecalotriticum): Genetic bases for the genome development and formation. – Minsk: Bel. Navuka, 2011. – 214 p.