Horticultural Plant Genetics Group - Group leader

Horticultural Plant Genetics Group - Group leader

Last modified: 11. July 2022

Name: Dr. Hegedűs Attila
Department: Plant Biotechnology
Title: Professor
Phone: +36-1/305-7698
Office: MATE Buda Campus, building A, room 24. Budapest, Ménesi út 44.,
E-mail: Hegedus.Attila@uni-mate.hu

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Scientific career

  • group leader, MATE, IGB, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Group of Horticultural Plant Genetics (2021-)
  • Research fellow (SZIE Faculty of Horticultural Science, 1999-2002)
  • Lecturer (Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Food Science, 2002 -2006)
  • Senior Lecturer (Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Food Science, 2006 -2008)
  • Associate Professor (Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Horticultural Science, 2018-2014)
  • Professor (Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Horticultural Science, 2014-)
  • Head of department (Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2015-)
  • M.Sc.: horticultural engineer, English translator, University of Horticulture and Food Industry (1996)
  • Ph.D.: plant growing and horticultural sciences, Szent István University, Faculty of Horticultural Science (2002)
  • Habilitation: Plant growing and horticultural sciences, University of Debrecen (2007)
  • Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) (2014)


Research

  • Development and application of molecular markers to support the breeding of stone fruit species with special focus on the characterization of raw materials and cultivar identification.
  • Analysis of the genetic background determining the economically significant properties of stone fruit species.
  • Exploring the evolutionary and crop evolutionary history of stone fruit species, with a particular focus on the Falling Stones transposon identified by our grou


Education

  • Plant genetics (responsible educator, Hort. eng. BSc, Hungarian and English language)
  • Plant Breeding and Cultivar Recognition (responsible educator, Hort. eng. BSc, Hungarian and English language)
  • Professional Literature Methodology (responsible educator, Agricultural Biotechnology MSc, English language)
  • Functional and Structural Plant Genomics (responsible educator, Agricultural Biotechnology MSc, English and Hungarian language)
  • Plant Molecular Genetics and Genome Editing (responsible educator, Hort. eng. MSc, English and Hungarian language)
  • Bioinformatics Approaches for Studying Plant Protein Evolution (responsible educator, Doctorate School of Horticultural Science)
  • Publication of scientific results in peer-reviewed journals (responsible educator, Doctorate School of Horticultural Science)
  • Nobel Prizes in molecular genetics (responsible educator, elective subject)
  • Cytology and cytogenetics (educator, Agricultural Biotechnology MSc, English language)
  • Classical, Population and Evolution Genetics (educator, Agricultural Biotechnology MSc, English language)
  • Molecular genetics (educator, Agricultural Biotechnology MSc, English and Hungarian language)
  • Plant Reproduction and Reproduction Biotechnology (educator, Agricultural Biotechnology MSc, English and Hungarian language)
  • Molecular biology and genetics (educator, Enology and viticulture MSc, Hungarian language)
  • Principles of Food Research (educator, Doctorate School of Food Sciences, English language)
  • Genetics of sexual reproduction in fruit trees (educator, elective subject, Hungarian and English language)


Selected publications

Identification and Molecular Analysis of Putative Self-Incompatibility Ribonuclease Alleles in an Extreme Polyploid Species, Prunus laurocerasus L.
Halász, J.*, Molnár, A. B., Ilhan, G., Ercisli, S., Hegedűs, A.
Front. Plant Sci, 12. (2021). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.715414 IF 5,753 D1

LC–MS based metabolic fingerprinting of apricot pistils after self-compatible and self-incompatible pollinations.
Lénárt, J., Gere, A., Causon, T., Hann, S., Dernovics, M., Németh, O., Hegedűs, A., Halász, J.*
Plant Mol. Biol. 1-13. (2020). doi: 10.1007/s11103-020-01098-5 IF 4,076 D1

Identification, structural and functional characterization of dormancy regulator genes in apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.).
Balogh, E., Halász, J., Soltész, A., Erős-Honti, Z., Gutermuth, A., Szalay, L., Höhn, M., Vágujfalvi, A., Galiba, G., Hegedűs, A.*
Front Plant Sci. 2019 Apr 5;10:402. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00402 IF 4,407 D1

Genetic variability is preserved among strongly differentiated and geographically diverse almond germplasm: An assessment by simple sequence repeat markers.
Halász, J.*, Kodad, O., Galiba, G.M., Skola, I., Ercisli, S., Ledbetter, C.A., Hegedűs, A. Tree Genet. Genomes 15: 12. (2019). doi: 10.1007/s11295-019-1319-8 IF 2,175 D1

Correspondence between maturity date and molecular variations in a NAC transcription factor of diploid and polyploid Prunus species.
Balogh, E., Halasz, J., Szani, Z., Hegedus, A.*
Turk. J. Agr. For., 42(2), 136-144. (2018). doi: 10.3906/tar-1711-19 IF 1,731, Q1

Identification of a recently active Prunus-specific non-autonomous Mutator element with considerable genome shaping force.
Halász J., Kodad O., Hegedűs A.*
Plant J. 2014 Jul;79(2):220-31. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12551. IF 6,815, D1

Genistein isoflavone glycoconjugates in sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) cultivars. Abrankó L.*, Nagy Á., Szilvássy B., Stefanovits-Bányai É., Hegedűs A.
Food Chem. 2015 Jan 1;166:215-222. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.06.007. IF 4,052, D1

Antioxidant and antiradical capacities in apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) fruits: variations from genotypes, years and analytical methods.
Hegedűs, A.*, Engel, R., Abrankó, L., Balogh, E., Blázovics, A., Hermán, R., Halász, J., Ercisli, S., Pedryc, A., Stefanovits-Bányai, É. J Food Sci. 2010 Nov-Dec;75(9):C722-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.01826.x. IF 1,733, D1

Origin and dissemination of the pollen-part mutated SC-haplotype that confers self-compatibility in apricot (Prunus armeniaca).
Halász, J., Pedryc, A., Hegedűs, A.*
New Phytol. 2007;176(4):792-803. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02220.x. IF 5,249 D1

Comparative studies of H2O2 detoxifying enzymes in green and greening barley seedlings under cadmium stress.
Hegedűs, A., Erdei, S.*, Horváth, G.
Plant Sci. 2001 May;160(6):1085-1093. doi: 10.1016/s0168-9452(01)00330-2. IF1,384, Q1

+ other publications (book chapters)

Nyéki, J; Soltész, M; Szabó, Z (szerk.) Morphology, Biology and Fertility of Flowers in Temperate Zone Fruits. Budapest, Magyarország : Akadémiai Kiadó (2008) 560 p.