Dr. Dragana Antonić Reljin

Dragana Antonić Relјin holds a PhD in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade (2022). She completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade (2010). Since 2011 she has been working at the Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković“, the Plant Physiology Department. Her field of interest is plant stress physiology. The main subject of her research is the horticultural species Impatiens walleriana (busy Lizzie), which is extremely sensitive to water deficits in the substrate. This horticultural specie is grown commercially in Serbia, and the main limiting factor in its production, transportation and sale is its high sensitivity to water deficits in the substrate. Dragana Antonić Reljin achieved the most important results in overcoming the sensitivity of I. walleriana to water stress by studying the importance of salicylic acid (SA) application under water stress. She worked on transcriptome sequencing of I. walleriana leaves, and the sequences of the coding regions of the three dehydrin genes (IwDhn1, IwDhn2.1 and IwDhn2.2) were identified.

Dragana Antonić Reljin participated as a member of the national project of the Republic of Serbia, Grant TR31019. She is a member of the Society for Plant Physiology (DFBS) and the Serbian Biological Society (SBD).