Dr. Attila Ombódi - MATE Research
Overview
Attila Ombódi is an associate professor at the Institute of Horticultural Science of The Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences. His research has always focused on intensive field vegetable production, with special emphasis on application of controlled release fertilizers, plastic mulches, temporary row covers, mycorrhiza fungi and photoselective shading nets. His expertise lies in vegetable cultivation. His recent works contribute to questions of how the negative effects of global climate change on summer lettuce cultivation can be modulated by some of the previously mentioned methods. His findings were instrumental in the development and spread of intensive filed sweet pepper production method in Hungary. He authored and co-authored 20 research articles in high-impact scientific journals. Attila Ombódi has collaborated with research groups from Japan, Italy and the Netherlands.
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Publications
Ombódi, A., M. Saigusa. (2000): Broadcast application versus band application using polyolefin-coated fertilizer on green peppers grown in the field. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 23(10):1495-1504.
Locher, J., A. Ombódi, T. Kassai, J. Dimény. 2005. Influence of coloured mulches on soil temperature and yield of sweet pepper. European Journal of Horticultural Science 70(3):135-141. IF: 0,456
Ombódi, A., H.G. Daood, L. Helyes. (2014): Carotenoid and tocopherol composition of an orange-colored carrot as affected by water supply. HortScience, 49(6):729-733.
Ombódi, A., A. Csorbai Gógán, Z. Birkás, N. Kappel, C.K. Morikawa, N. Koczka, K. Posta (2019): Effects of Mycorrhiza Inoculation and Grafting for Sweet Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Crop Under Low-Tech Greenhouse Conditions. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj Napoca, 47(4):1238-1245. DOI:10.15835/nbha47411641
Mayer, Z., Csorbainé Gógán, A., Juhász, Á., Ombódi, A., Pápai, A.; Némethné Kisgyörgy, B., Posta, K. (2021): Impact of Soil-Applied Microbial Inoculant and Fertilizer on Fungal and Bacterial Communities in the Rhizosphere of Robinia sp. and Populus sp. Plantations. Forests, 2021, 12, 1218. DOI: 10.3390/f12091218
Projects
Integrating the use of controlled release fertilizers into Hungarian vegetable production technologies (D 38315 post-doctoral OTKA project)
By measuring the activity of stress enzymes during seedling growth, it was objectively showed that the application of controlled release fertilizers (CRFs) causes less stress than the use of traditional fertilizers, and also shortened the raising period. Use of ammonium containing CRF resulted in lower nitrate concentration in lettuce, radish and kohlrabi; however, at the same time it extended the growing period. Combination of controlled-release fertilizers (CRFs) and fertigation resulted in better water use efficiency without decreasing the yield.
Improving vegetable quality and decreasing environmental loading by application of controlled release fertilizers (JAP-20/2006 Hungarian-Japanese TÉT project)
Innovative, Japanese application methods of CRFs were tested under Hungarian conditions for the cultivation of some vegetable crops. Application of potassium containing CRFs increased concentration of some antioxidant components of processing tomato. Close to 100% nutrient use efficiency in lettuce cultivation was achieved by using CRFs. Decreased nitrate concentration in some vegetables was achieved without decreasing their yield.
Development of climate adaption capability and production security of the Solanaceae family (TÉT_16-1-2016-0203 Hungarian-Japanese TÉT project)
Grafting onto Japanese rootstock significantly enhanced leaf chlorophyll content and yield of eggplant but did not have an effect on sweet pepper. Inoculation of sweet pepper with mycorrhizal fungi had a significant positive effect on the photosynthetic activity, the biomass and the yield. In addition, it increased the proportion of the marketable pepper pods and balanced crop production even during the less optimal periods of the growing season.
