Marianna Rakszegi

Marianna Rakszegi, PhD Chemical Sciences, is a principal investigator of cereal chemistry at the Cereal Breeding Department of the Centre for Agricultural Research. As the leader of the laboratory for quality traits, her main interest is the identification and development of biochemical and molecular-biology tools to develop a more efficient selection system for quality-oriented wheat breeding. Her research focuses on storage proteins, starch, dietary fibers and other bioactive components of...See more

Marianna Rakszegi, PhD Chemical Sciences, is a principal investigator of cereal chemistry at the Cereal Breeding Department of the Centre for Agricultural Research. As the leader of the laboratory for quality traits, her main interest is the identification and development of biochemical and molecular-biology tools to develop a more efficient selection system for quality-oriented wheat breeding. Her research focuses on storage proteins, starch, dietary fibers and other bioactive components of cereals. She is a guest associate editor at Frontiers in Plant Science and editorial board member of the Journal of Cereal Science, and co-breeder of 38 wheat and 2 spelt varieties. She won the János Bólyai Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences twice, and the Zoltán Magyary postdoctoral Fellowship. She was awarded the 'Researcher of the year 2017' by the HAS.and is a member of EUCARPIA and the Committee on Plant Breeding, Agricultural Sciences of the HAS. See less