Yakiv Ratushnyak

Scientific Interests

• organelle DNA recombination and nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions under somatic hybridization in higher plants,
• genetic variability of fertile asymmetric somatic hybrids,
• plant genetic transformation.

Experience

• Plant cell tissue and protoplast culture,
• mutagenesis and mutant selection,
• haploid production,
• plant genetic transformation
  • Agrobacterium-mediated procedure,
  • direct gene transfer with and without electroporation,
  • chloroplast transformation,
• somatic hybridization,
• biochemical and molecular analyses
  • DNA-fragment amplification by PCR,
  • isozyme analysis.