Poster Session 1 – uneven numbers only includes also participants by correspondence Monday 14th June EXTRACT OF LEONURUS CARDIACA L. MODULATES NRF2 EXPRESSION IN HUMAN NEUTROPHILS Kristiana Amirova, Petya Dimitrova, Iva Stoykova, Martina Savova, P3 Ivanka Koycheva, Milen Georgiev EXTRACT OF ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA MILL. LEAVES REDUCES LIPID ACCUMULATION IN ADIPOCYTES Martina Savova, Zhivka Balcheva-Sivenova, Saveta Mladenova, P5 Kristiana Amirova, Liliya Vasileva, Milen Georgiev APPLICATION OF DNA BARCODING FOR STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIPS IN TAXONOMICALLY INTRICATE VASCULAR PLANT GENERA FROM THE BULGARIAN FLORA P7 Svetlana Bancheva, Georgi Bonchev, Stiliana Simeonova, Vladimir Vladimirov, Atanas Tanev IN VITRO SIMULATION OF DROUGHT STRESS FOR EXPLORING THE MECHANISMS OF DROUGHT TOLERANCE IN WHEAT P9 Anna Dimitrova, Mariyana Georgieva, Bianka Marinova, Valya Vassileva BIOPESTICIDAL AND PHYTOSTIMALTORY EFFECT OF MICROENCAPSULATED B. SUBTILIS NCIM 2063 Ivica Đalović, Sandra Stamenković Stojanović, Ivana Karabegović, P11 Petar Mitrović, Bojana Danilović, Stojan Mančić, Nada Nikolić, Miodrag Lazić BULGARIAN SOYBEAN CULTIVARS - FIELD PERFORMANCE, TRANSCRIPTOMICS AND METABOLOMICS Galina Naidenova, Ivayla Dincheva, Ilian Badjakov, Mariana Radkova, P13 Miglena Revalska, Anelia Iantcheva MODULATION OF WHEAT RESPONSES TO GLYPHOSATE BY APPLICATION OF BRASSINOSTEROID Zornitsa Katerova, Elena Shopova, Liliana Brankova, Ljudmila Dimitrova, P15 Iskren Sergiev, Dessislava Todorova, Neveen Talaat XEROPHYTA SCHLECTERI - TRANSCRIPTOME RESPONSE ON DRYING P17 Dimiter Kirkovski, Veselin Petrov, Nicola Illing, Tsanko Gechev APPLICATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES IN THE CRYOPRESERVATION OF IN VITRO-DERIVED SHOOT TIPS OF BLEEDING HEART P19 Dariusz Kulus, Alicja Tymoszuk EXPRESSION OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN INTERFERON ALPHA GENE IN TRANSGENIC MANGOLD (BETA VULGARIS L.) PLANTS P21 Luchakivska Yuliya, Gerasymenko Iryna, Kuchuk Mykola DNA BARCODES REVEAL INTER- AND INTRA-SPECIES DIVERSITY OF COLLETOTRICHUM ISOLATES PATHOGENIC ON SOLANACEOUS CROPS IN BULGARIA P23 Vasilissa Manova, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Irina Boycheva, Rossitza Rodeva, Georgi Bonchev ASTRAGALIN AND QUERCITRIN EXERT ANTI-OBESITY POTENTAIL THROUGH PPARγ-MEDIATED MECHANISM Saveta Mladenova, Liliya Vasileva, Martina Savova, Andrey Marchev, P25 Ivanka Koycheva, Milen Georgiev IDENTIFICATION OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS (SNPs) SITES IN A BALKAN PEPPER (CAPSICUM ANNUUM L.) COLLECTION REVEALED BY TUNABLE GENOTYPING-BY-SEQUENCING (tGBS) P27 Amol Nankar, Gancho Pasev, Dimitrina Kostova, Vesela Radeva-Ivanova, Valentina Ivanova, Velichka Todorova, Ivanka Tringovska, Zoran Nikoloski VIRTUAL TARGET-FISHING OF PLANT-DERIVED PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS BY SIMILARITY-BASED SCREENING OF DRUGBANK P29 Merilin Al Sharif, Petko Alov, Ivanka Tsakovska, Tania Pencheva, Ilza Pajeva ROS PRODUCTION DURING OXIDATIVE STRESS IN OILSEED BRASSICA AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION INVOLVED IN RESISTANCE TO ALTERNARIA P31 Sana Munir, Ahmad Shahzad, Tsanko Gechev, Muhammad Kamran Qureshi ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF CHLOROFORM SOXHLET EXTRACTS OF THE BULGARIAN ENDEMIC PLANT ACHILLEA THRACICA VELEN. P33 Mariya Rogova, Detelina Petrova, Milena Petrova, Petya Hristova, Ganka Chaneva COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRESS REACTIONS OF MICROPROPAGATED ACHILLEA THRACICA VELEN. PLANTS P35 Mariya Rogova, Detelina Petrova, Desislava Mantovska, Miroslava Zhiponova, Ganka Chaneva Mg-NANOPARTICLES POTENTIAL FOR WATER STRESS MITIGATION IN LETTUCE P37 Sónia Silva, Maria Celeste Dias, Artur Silva WHEAT RESPONSE TO TIO2 NANOPARTICLES EXPOSURE: PHYSIOLOGICAL, BIOCHEMICAL AND METABOLIC DATA INTEGRATION P39 Sónia Silva, Maria Celeste Dias, Diana Pinto, Artur Silva, Conceição Santos THE BIOSTIMULANT SUPERFIFTY® (SF) PROTECTS THREE DIFFERENT PLANT SPECIES FROM PARAQUAT-INDUCED OXIDATIVE STRESS P41 Nikola Staykov, Mihail Angelov, Veselin Petrov, Pavel Minkov, Aakansha Kanojia, Kieran Guinan, Saleh Alseekh, Alisdair Fernie, Neerakkal Sujeeth, Tsanko Gechev EFFECT OF PLANT EXTRACTS ON TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER IN VITRO P43 Iva Stoykova, Andrey Marchev, Liliya Vasileva, Kristiana Amirova, Monika Todorova, Milen Georgiev INVOLVEMENT OF POLYAMINES IN CROSS-SYNERGISM OR CROSS-ADAPTATION REACTIONS OF HERBICIDE-PRIMED WHEAT SEEDLINGS UNDER DROUGHT AND WATERLOGGING STRESS P45 Dessislava Todorova, Zornitsa Katerova, Ljudmila Dimitrova, Iskren Sergiev EFFECTIVE DNA EXTRACTION AND PHYTOPLASMA DETECTION IN SWEET CHERY P47 Rumyana Valkova, Snezhana Milusheva ROOT AND SHOOT TRAITS AS DETERMINANTS FOR DROUGHT TOLERANCE IN WHEAT P49 Valya Vassileva, Anna Dimitrova, Mariyana Georgieva, Irina Vaseva DNA BARCODES AND GENOME SIZE IN THE BULGARIAN SPECIES OF GALANTHUS (AMARYLLIDACEAE) P51 Vladimir Vladimirov, Georgi Bonchev, Stiliana Simeonova, Svetlana Bancheva, Boryana Sidjimova MICELLAR CURCUMIN ENHANCES THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF THE ALKYLPHOSPHOCHOLINE ERUFOSINE P53 Maya Zaharieva, Lyudmila Dimitrova, Alexander Kroumov, Yana Ilieva, Krassimira Yoncheva, Martin Berger, Spiro Konstantinov, Hristo Najdenski CYTOTOXICITY AND MICROBICIDAL ACTIVITY OF ORGANIC SOLVENTS COMMONLY USED FOR STUDYING PLANT EXTRACTS AND THEIR BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY P55 Yana Ilieva, Lyudmila Dimitrova, Maya Zaharieva, Mila Kaleva, Petko Alov, Ivanka Tsakovska, Tania Pencheva, Hristo Najdenski, Ilza Pajeva SUBSTRATE CHANNELING (METABOLON) MEDIATES ENZYME-ENZYME ASSEMBLIES IN PLANT METABOLISM REGULATION P57 Youjun Zhang, Alisdair Fernie EVALUATION OF ANDROGENIC POTENTIAL OF BALKAN PEPPER CORE COLLECTION IN BULGARIA Stanislava Grozeva, Gancho Pasev, Vesela Radeva, Velichka Todorova, P59 Valentina Ivanova, Amol Nankar FRUIT CHEMICAL ELEMENTAL PROFILING OF BALKAN PEPPER COLLECTION COMPRISED OF 181 ACCESSIONS P61 Ivanka Tringovska, Veneta Stoeva, Velichka Todorova, Amol Nankar ANTICANCER AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY OF EUROPEAN FERN SPECIES P63 Antonio Pavičić, Barbora Szotaková, Petra Matoušková , Lenka Langhansova PREDICTING OF CITRONELLOL, NEROL AND GERANOIL CONTENT IN BULGARIAN ROSE OIL SAMPLES BY NIR SPECTOSCOPY P65 Viktor Markuliev, Kamelia Getchovska, Daniela Antonova, Gennadi Gudi, Andrea Krähmer, Liudmil Antonov, Poster Session 2 – even numbers only includes also participants by correspondence Tuesday 15th June DOXORUBICIN AND QUERCETIN DOUBLE LOADING IN CHITOSAN/ALGINATE NANOPARTICLES IMPROVES ITS CYTOTOXICITY IN RESISTANT LYMPHOMA L5178 MDR1 CELLS Alexandra Tosheva, Denitsa Aluani, Borislav Tzankov, Chistina Voycheva, P2 Krassimira Yoncheva, Virginia Tzankova NOTES ON CROCUS L. SER. FLAVI MATHIEW (IRIDACEAE JUSS.) IN BULGARIA P4 Elena Apostolova, Kiril Stoyanov, Samir Naimov, Tsvetanka Raycheva CHANGES IN MICRO RNA GENE EXPRESSION HIGHLIGHT A PEPPER CULTIVAR-SPECIFIC RESPONSE TO POTATO SPINDLE TUBER VIROID INFECTION P6 Elena Apostolova, Desislava Ivanova, Nikol Hadjieva, Galina Yahubyan, Vesselin Baev, Mariyana Gozmanova CRK5 RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE REGULATES WATER USE EFFICIENCY DURING PLANT DEVELOPMENT. P8 Pawel Burdiak, Damian Witon, Jakub Mielecki, Stanislaw Karpinski OREGANO OIL ENCAPSULATED IN CHITOSAN-ALGINATE NANOPARTICLES INHIBITS THE FORMATION OF BACTERIAL BIOFILMS P10 Lyudmila Dimitrova, Maya Zaharieva, Krassimira Yoncheva, Niko Benbassat, Alexander Kroumov, Ivanka Spassova, Daniela Kovacheva, Hristo Najdenski NOVEL REGULATORS OF EPIDERMAL PERMEABILITY Marina Leal Gavarrón, Karin Johansson, Triin Vahisalu, Maija Sierla, P12 Dmitry Yarmolinsky, Olena Zamora, Hannes Kollist, Mats Andersson, Cezary Waszczak, Jaakko Kangasjärvi SEQUENCING AND ANNOTATION OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME OF THE BULGARIAN RESURRECTION SPECIES HABERLEA RHODOPENSIS FRIV. P14 Vesselin Baev, Zdravka Ivanova, Galina Yahubyan, Valentina Toneva, Elena Apostolova, Georgi Minkov, Ivan Minkov INTEGRATED PROTEOMIC AND METABOLOMIC PROFILING OF PHYTOPHTORA CINNAMOMI ATTACK ON CHESTNUT REVEALS DISTINCT MOLECULAR REPROGRAMMING PROXIMAL TO THE P16 INFECTION SITE AND AWAY FROM IT Iñigo Saiz-Fernández, Ivan Milenkovič, Martin Černý, Pavel Kerchev IN VITRO THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT AND ROSMARINIC ACID ON PSORIASIS DERMATITIS P18 Ivanka Koycheva, Monika Todorova, Kristiana Amirova, Zhivka Balcheva-Sivenova, Andrey Marchev, Liliya Vasileva, Milen Georgiev HAIRY ROOTS OF CHINESE CABBAGE CARRYING THE HUMAN INTERFERON ALPHA-2B GENE P20 Lystvan Kateryna, Shcherbak Natalia, Kuchuk Mykola ROCKET SALAD (ERUCA SATIVA MILL.) CARRYING THE COLICIN M GENE P22 Lystvan Kateryna, Shcherbak Nataliia, Kuchuk Mykola RHODIOLA ROSEA AND ITS MARKER COMPOUNDS MODULATE PSORIASIS-LIKE INFLAMMATION IN KERATINOCYTES P24 Andrey Marchev, Ivanka Koycheva, Liliya Vasileva, Kristiana Amirova, Zhivka Balcheva-Sivenova, Milen Georgiev ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF OREGANO OIL ENCAPSULATED IN CHITOSAN-ALGINATE NANOPARTICLES P26 Krassimira Yoncheva, Niko Benbassat, Maya Zaharieva, Lyudmila Dimitrova, Alexander Kroumov, Ivanka Spassova, Daniela Kovacheva, Hristo Najdenski IN VITRO ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY OF HEMOCYANINS Maria Nikolova, Pavlina Dolashka, Teodora Atanasova, Antonios Trochopoulos, P28 Spiro Konstantinov ЕFFECT OF SOIL LIMING ON OXIDATIVE STRESS PARAMETERS IN SOYBEAN P30 Jovana Šućur, Đorđe Malenčić, Dejan Prvulović, Vladimir Ćirić, Miloš Petrović MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA GENE CODING FOR CCHC-Zn FINGER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR INFLUENCES THE CONTENT OF AMINO ACID AND FATTY ACID IN LEAF TISSUE AND SEEDS P32 Mariana Radkova, Ivaila Dincheva, Ilian Badjakov, Anelia Iantcheva BETULINIC ACID AFFECTS LIPID ACCUMULATION DURING DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN SGBS ADIPOCYTES P34 Martina Savova, Liliya Vasileva, Saveta Mladenova, Kristiana Amirova, Zhivka Balcheva-Sivenova,