About us

Expert solutions to reduce the risks caused by fungal pathogens

The ArtPlanta team

ArtPlanta Ltd. was founded in the spring of 2017 and is an independent professional community engaged in research and development. Our researchers are internationally recognized experts in the fields of plant pathology, microbiology, field crop production and cereal breeding.
As honorary associate professors, two of our senior colleagues also pass on their expertise and experience at the Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering, and Science and Informatics of University of Szeged, within the framework of university education.
Our young engineer colleagues are involved in the field of food safety research and experimental development: they contribute significantly to the success of ArtPlanta with their talent, innovative ideas and enthusiastic attitude.
Our results so far, the numerous bred plant varieties with good resistance, the hundreds of scientific publications and the discovery of new mycotoxin-producing fungal species serve the development of agriculture and the future of sustainable, safe crop production.
 

The Founders

Beáta TÓTH

Managing director, plant pathologist

Microbiologist, plant pathologist. Her main research program is the study of the resistance of cereals to natural infection in the field and in artificial inoculation tests, and the study of the genetic background of resistance.

She also studies pathogenic fungi of cereals, specializing in the assessment of the occurrence of mycotoxin-producing fungi in domestic cereals, identification of pathogens, examination of their toxin production and genetic variability.

She won the János Bolyai Research Scholarship twice in a related topic. As the Head of the Resistance Research Department at the Cereal Research Non-profit Ltd., later as Research Director, she participated in the resistance breeding of winter wheat against Fusarium head blight. Recently, she and her colleagues described a new species of Fusarium (F. vorosii) and a new species of Alternaria (A. hungarica). The Hungarian Plant Protection Society recognized her work with the József Vörös Memorial Medal.

The number of her scientific publications is 347 and the number of independent citations is 2120. As a supervisor, she has carried out research on cereal and maize fungal pathogens within the framework of European Union, bilateral, national and regional R+D and scientific projects.

László CSEUZ

Researcher manager, plant breeder

Plant breeder, agricultural engineer. So far, he participated in the production of more than a hundred bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) candidate and registered varieties. He is the leading breeder of five certified, patented bread wheat varieties and co-breeder of more than fifty bread wheat, durum wheat and triticale.

His work has been linked to the Cereal Research Institute since 1987. Initially, he worked at the Wheat Breeding Department established by Dr. Zoltán Barabás, and later he was the head of the Wheat Directorate/Small Grain Cereal Department. He founded the Cereal Gene Bank of the Cereal Research Ltd., which is ensures the medium-term preservation of more than 7000 seed samples.

He has participated in several study trips abroad, including to Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel and the United States of America. His most important field of research is the study of the drought tolerance of wheat. He established a rain shelter equipment for the in situ testing and selection for drought tolerance in the field. It makes it possible to study the impact of water scarcity for better understanding of drought tolerance.

He is a member of the board of the Hungarian Plant Breeders' Association, a member of the Scientific Committee on Plant Breeding of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and EUCARPIA.

ArtPlanta in numbers

successfully implemented agricultural research projects
national and international tenders with university and agricultural partners
years of laboratory and field R&D experience
scientific publications in the field of plant pathology and mycology