Dr. Aliki Xanthopoulou is a Researcher in Horticulture Plant Breeding and Genomics at the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, HAO (Thessaloniki, Greece). Her research covers Genomic Technology, Molecular Breeding, Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering and food production. Aliki has participated in numerous international or national projects. She has a scientific background on plants biotechnology, genomics and vegetable breeding. She has published 69 articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals (h-index 23: Google Scholar). Recently, her scientific interest focuses on all branches of Genetic and Genomic technology, Molecular Breeding, Biodiversity, Genetic Resources valuation, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering as well as food production. Furthermore, her scientific breadth concerns the application of genomic technologies with the aim to create new horticultural varieties as well the promotion of local varieties (landraces) of horticultural crops and their utilization in breeding programs.

• Plant genomics and transcriptomics
• Molecular breeding
• Biotechnology
• Genetic Engineering
• Genetic Resources valuation

• “Highlighting, Evaluation, and Breeding of the Distinctive Quality Characteristics of Naxos Sweet Potato for the Production of a PGI Product” with the acrony ‘SWEETPOTATOES4PGI’ funded by “Research–Innovate” Action of the Competitiveness Program 2021–2027 (Call Code: 08KE – OPS Code: 9833), Intervention I: “Research and Development by Enterprises.”
• "Genetic breeding of vegetable crops for their registration in the National Catalogue of Varieties", with the acronym 'GrEaTest-Veggies', funded by the Region of Central Macedonia.
• “Evaluation and breeding of the special quality characteristics of the PGI potato ‘Kato Nevrokopi’”, with the acronym ‘PotaToID’, funded by the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
• “Enhancing potato frost resistance through the use of chemical initiation”, with the acronym ‘FREEPOT’, funded under the Rural Development Programme (RDP), Sub-measure 16.1-2 Action II

Bazakos, C., Michailidis, M., Tourvas, N., Alexiou, K.G., Mellidou, I., Polychroniadou, C., Boutsika, A., Xanthopoulou, A., Moysiadis, T., Skodra, C. and Kollaros, M.G., 2024. Genetic mosaic of the Mediterranean fig: comprehensive genomic insights from a gene bank collection. Physiologia Plantarum, 176(4), p.e14482.

Boutsika, A., Mellidou, I., Grigoriadou, K., Papapanastasi, K., Krigas, N., Maloupa, E., Ganopoulos, I. and Xanthopoulou, A., 2024. Molecular profiling of Greek native germplasm collection of Rosa canina L. for enhanced fruit extract production: a comprehensive approach utilizing neutral, gene, and exon-based markers. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, pp.1-8.

Boutsika, A., Xanthopoulou, A., Tanou, G., Zacharatou, M.E., Vernikos, M., Nianiou-Obeidat, I., Ganopoulos, I. and Mellidou, I., 2024. A microbiome survey of contrasting potato terroirs using 16S rRNA long-read sequencing. Plant and Soil, pp.1-18.

Boutsika, A., Mellidou, I., Grigoriadou, K., Papapanastasi, K., Krigas, N., Maloupa, E., Ganopoulos, I. and Xanthopoulou, A., 2024. Molecular profiling of Rosa canina L. Greek native germplasm collection for enhanced fruit extract production: A comprehensive approach utilizing neutral, gene, and exon-based markers.

Ganopoulou, M., Xanthopoulou, A., Michailidis, M., Angelis, L., Ganopoulos, I. and Moysiadis, T., 2023. Exploring the Robustness of Causal Structures in Omics Data: A Sweet Cherry Proteogenomic Perspective. Agronomy, 14(1), p.8.