Kristina Petrović

Position:Project Manager at the Center for Biosystems

Academic Rank: Senior research associate in the field of biotechnical sciences

Kristina Petrović is a project manager at the Center for Biosystems at the BioSense Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Belgrade, in 2013, on the topic of characterization of phytopathogenic fungi that cause soybean disease complex. Kristina Petrović has experience in various methods of characterizing soybean diseases. Her research is related to finding soybean resistance to pathogens, which is essential in agriculture, the food sector, and environmental protection. During 2010 and 2011, she attended the Centro di Ricerca per la Patologia Vegetale (CRA-PAV) in Rome, Italy, for professional training in the field of molecular characterization of phytopathogenic fungi, and completed postdoctoral specialization at the South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA, during 2017 and 2018. She has participated in several national and international projects and was the work package coordinator within the European ECOBREED project H2020. Kristina Petrović is the author or co-author of 90 scientific papers in international and national journals, a book of abstracts from international and national conferences, and patents. She is a member of the European Legume Hub Association Board, The American Phytopathological Society, The Australasian Plant Pathology Society, and the Plant Protection Society of Serbia.

Center:

CBS

Projects:

1. SmartAgriHubs-Connecting the dots to unleash the innovation potential for digital transformation of the European agri-food sector

2. agROBOfood- Business-Oriented Support to the European Robotics and Agri-food Sector, towards a network of Digital Innovation Hubs in Robotics

Publications:

1. Petrović K, Skaltsas D, Castlebury L, Kontz B, Allen T, Chilvers IM, Gregory FN, Kelly MH, Koehler MA, Kleczewski MN, Mueller SD, Price T, Smith LD, Mathew MF (2021) Diaporthe seed decay of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is endemic in the United States, but new fungi are involved. Plant Disease, DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-03-20-0604-RE.
2. Ranđelović P, Đorđević V, Milić S, Balešević-Tubić S, Petrović K, Miladinović J, Đukić V (2020) Prediction of Soybean Plant Density Using a Machine Learning Model and Vegetation Indices Extracted from RGB Images Taken with a UAV. Agronomy, 10(8): 1108. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10081108.
3. Ghimire K, Petrović K, Kontz BJ, Bradley CA, Chilvers MI, Mueller DS, Smith DL, Wisea KA, Mathew FM (2019) Inoculation method impacts symptom development associated with Diaporthe aspalathi, D. caulivora, and D. longicolla on soybean (Glycine max). Plant Disease, 103(4):677-684. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-06-18-1078-RE.
4. Petrović K, Riccioni L, Vidić M, Đorđević V, Balešević-Tubić S, Đukić V, Miladinov Z (2016) First report of Diaporthe novem, D. foeniculina and D. rudis associated with soybean seed decay in Serbia. Plant Disease, 100(11):2324. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-03-16-0353-PDN.
5. Petrović K, Vidić M, Riccioni L, Đorđević V, Rajković D (2015) First report of Diaporthe eres species complex causing seed decay of soybean in Serbia. Plant Disease, 99(8):1186. DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-01-15-0056-PDN.