Biography:
Dr. Agnieszka Orzel studied Agriculture Science at University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland and graduated as MS in plant breeding science in 2001. She joined to the raspberry and blackberry breeding program headed by Dr. Jan Danek in the Fruit Experiment Station Institute of Horticulture in Brzezna, southern Poland. She is co-author of 6 raspberry and 6 blackberry cultivars which got a dominant position in polish fruit market production.
She received her PhD in 2011 at University of Agriculture from the thesis “Biology of the flowering within Rubus species as a preliminary study in obtaining primocane blackberries”. She obtained a new position as Rubus breeder since 2012 in the private breeding program, Niwa Berry Breeding Ltd. which is also a co-founder. From this program, the latest early primocane raspberry ‘Delniwa’ was released in 2017.
Title : Attempts to explain incompatibilities in the process of pollination and fertilization of blackberry flowers (Rubus L. subgen. Rubus)