Laboratory for DH Pepper Production - Head of Laboratory

Laboratory for DH Pepper Production - Group leader

Last modified: 12. October 2022

Name: Dr. Judit Mitykó
Department: Department of Genetics and Genomics
Position: Head of Laboratory
Phone: +36-28/430-494
Office: MATE GBI Gödöllő, Szent-Györgyi A. st. 4., ground floor, 012.
E-mail: Mityko.Judit@uni-mate.hu


Scientific carreer

  • Head of Laboratory (MATE GBI, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Laboratory for DH Pepper Production, 2021-)
  • Group Leader (ABC, NARIC-ABC, Plant Tissue Culture Group, 2011-2021)
  • Research fellow (Agricultural Biotechnology Center, 2012-)
  • Institute engineer (Agricultural Biotechnology Center, 2002-2011)
  • Team leader (Agricultural Biotechnology Center, 1995-)
  • Research assistant (Agricultural Biotechnology Center, 1987-2002)
     
  • dr. univ.: Genetics and Plant Breeding, GATE Gödöllő (1989)
  • MSc.: graduate in agricultural engineering, GATE Gödöllő (1987)


Research Field

  • Plant Tissue Culture
  • In vitro haploidy


Related Publications

Improvement in the haploid technique routinely used for breeding sweet and spice peppers in Hungary.
Mitykó, J*., Gémes Juhász, A.
Acta Agronomica Hungarica 2006 Vol. 54(2):203-219. doi:

Microspore-derived embryogenesis in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.): subcellular rearrangements through development.
Bárány, I., Gonzáles-Melendi, P., Fadón, B., Mitykó, J., Risueño, M. C., Testillano, P. S.*
Biol. Cell 2005, 97, 709-722. doi: 10.1042/BC20040142  

The swich of the microspore developmental program in Capsicum involves HSP70 expression and leads to the production of haploid plants.
Bárány I., Testillano, P. S., Mitykó, J., Risueño, M. C.*
Int. J. Dev. Biol. 2001 Vol. 45. Supplement 1, 39-40. doi:

Utilization of androgenic doubled haploid (DH) lines in the improvement of an open pollinated pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) variety.
Venczel, G.*, Mitykó, J., Zatykó, J., Fári, M.
Horticultural Science 1996 28, (1-2): 14-18. doi:

Anther Culture Response in Different Genotypes and F1 hybrids of Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.).
Mitykó J*., Andrásfalvy, A., Csilléry, G., Fári, M.
Plant Breeding 1995 114 (1), 78-80. doi:

Other professional results

Delikát F1 hybrid pepper variety, 10% variety ownership (2008)

​​​​​​​Ministerial Certificate for widespread production and introduction of doubled haploid pepper lines into practice and for the outstanding work done in Hungarian resistance breeding and seed production.
(Ministry of Agriculture, 2016)