Gunārs Lācis

• Plant genetics and molecular biology

• Research coordination and leading
  Fruit crop genetic research
  Molecular genetics applied in the genetic research of fruit crops
  Research on fruit crop genetic resource conservation, study and utilisation

Total number of publications: 154

Scientific papers: 92

Scopus / WoS indexed publications: 67

H-index: 18
 

Major scientific work:

• Lācis G., Kārkliņa K., Bartulsons T., Kaufmane E., 2024. Intergeneric Transfer of Simple Sequence Repeat Molecular Markers for the Study of Chaenomeles as Fruit Crop Breeding Material. Horticulturae, 10(11), 1233. 10.3390/horticulturae10111233
• Kodors S., Zarembo I., Lācis G., Litavniece L., Apeināns I., Sondors M., Pacejs A., 2024. Autonomous Yield Estimation System for Small Commercial Orchards Using UAV and AI. Drones, 8(12), 734. 10.3390/drones8120734
• Lācis G., Kārkliņa K., Bartulsons T., Stalažs A., Jundzis M., Baļķe I., Ruņģis D., Strautiņa S. 2022. Genetic structure of a Ribes genetic resource collection: inter- and intra- specific diversity revealed by chloroplast DNA simple sequence repeats (cpSSRs). Scientia Horticulturae, 304, 111285. 10.1016/j.scienta.2022.111285
• Zelmene K., Kārkliņa K., Ikase L., Lācis G. 2022. Inheritance of Apple (Malus × domestica (L.) Borkh) Resistance against Apple Scab (Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) Wint.) in Hybrid Breeding Material Obtained by Gene Pyramiding. Horticulturae, 8, 9, 772. 10.3390/horticulturae8090772

• Moročko-Bičevska I., Stalažs A., Lācis G., Laugale V., Baļķe I., Zuļģe N., Strautiņa S. 2021. Cecidophyopsis mites and blackcurrant reversion virus on Ribes hosts: Current scientific progress and knowledge gaps. Annals of Applied Biology, 180 (1), pp. 26-43. DOI: 10.1111/aab.12720

• Nybom H., Lācis G. 2021. Recent large-scale genotyping and phenotyping of plant genetic resources of vegetatively propagated crops. Plants, 10 (2), art. no. 415, pp. 1-30. DOI: 10.3390/plants10020415
• Lācis G., 2013. Characterisation of Latvian fruit crop genetic resources by application of molecular genetics methods. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B: Natural, Exact and Applied Sciences, 67(2), 84–93
• Lacis G., 2010. Characterisation of the Latvian and Swedish Sweet and Sour Cherry Genetic Resources. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae, Doctoral Thesis, No. 2010:89
• Lacis G., Rashal I., Ruisa S., Trajkovski V., Iezzoni A.F. 2009. Assessment of genetic diversity of Latvian and Swedish sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) genetic resources collections by using SSR (microsatellite) markers. Scientia Horticulturae, 121, 451–457.
• Lacis G., E. Kaufmane, I. Rashal, V. Trajkovski, A.F. Iezzoni, 2008. Identification of self-incompatibility (S) alleles in Latvian and Swedish sweet cherry genetic resources collections by PCR based typing. Euphytica, 160, 155–163.

Patent “Early detection of somaclonal variation in apple and pear”, No. LV 14835 (2014)