Apostolos Kalivas is a researcher in Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources Institute of the HELLENIC AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION “DEMETER”. He received his Ph. D., his second cycle thesis (M.Sc.) and his first degree (Diploma) from the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding of the School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests include conventional and molecular plant breeding. He has published several papers in the above topics and he has also participated in various EU-funded and national research projects.

• Plant Breeding
• Development of new varieties by marker-assisted selection
• Molecular markers

• TomorrowS – Designing cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L) and durum wheat (Triticum durum) crop management ideotypes (cultivars, fertilization, salinity and irrigation) under simulating current and projected future climate with comparative studies in Greece and Tunisia
• Evaluation and Breeding of two industrial hemp varieties

• Xanthopoulou, A., Tsaballa, A., Ganopoulos, I., Kapazoglou, A., Avramidou, E., Aravanopoulos, F.A., Moysiadis, T., Osathanunkul, M., Tsaftaris, A., Doulis, A.G., Kalivas, A., Sarrou, E., Martens, S., Nianiou-Obeidat, I., Madesis, P. Ιntra-species grafting induces epigenetic and metabolic changes accompanied by alterations in fruit size and shape of Cucurbita pepo L. (2019) Plant Growth Regulation, 87 (1), pp. 93-108.
• Kalivas, A., Ganopoulos, I., Psomopoulos, F., Grigoriadis, I., Xanthopoulou, A., Hatzigiannakis, E., Osathanunkul, M., Tsaftaris, A., Madesis, P. Comparative metagenomics reveals alterations in the soil bacterial community driven by N-fertilizer and Amino 16® application in lettuce (2017) Genomics Data, 14, pp. 14-17.
• Kalivas, A., Ganopoulos, I., Bosmali, I., Tsaliki, E., Osathanunkul, M., Xanthopoulou, A., Moysiadis, T., Avramidou, E., Grigoriadis, I., Zambounis, A., Tsaftaris, A., Nianiou-Obeidat, I., Madesis, P. Genetic diversity and structure of tobacco in greece on the basis of morphological and microsatellite markers (2016) Crop Science, 56 (5), pp. 2652-2662.
• Kalivas, A., Ganopoulos, I., Xanthopoulou, A., Chatzopoulou, P., Tsaftaris, A., Madesis, P. DNA barcode ITS2 coupled with high resolution melting (HRM) analysis for taxonomic identification of Sideritis species growing in Greece (2014) Molecular Biology Reports, 41 (8), pp. 5147-5155.
• Kalivas, A., Xanthopoulos, F., Kehagia, O., Tsaftaris, A.S. Agronomic characterization, genetic diversity and association analysis of cotton cultivars using simple sequence repeat molecular markers. (2011) Genetics and molecular research: GMR, 10 (1), pp. 208-217.