Dr. Sándor Takács - MATE Research
Overview
Sándor Takács is a research fellow at the Institute of Horticultural Sciences. He has completed his PhD studies in 2019 in Doctural School of Plant Sciences. His research focuses on the optimal water supply of some selected vegetable species. His expertise lies in water stress measurements in horticultural plants, modelling the growth and water use of herbaceous plants and precision irrigation applications. Dr. Takács’s work contributes to questions of how the different stress levels affect some important phytonutrients or quality parameters of vegetable crops. Across his research, he uses instruments related to monitoring plant transpiration, leaf reflectance and photosynthetic activity. He authored and co-authored 22 research articles in high-quality scientific journals. He has won the prestigious Wolfgang Kessler research award awarded by the German-Hungarian Association under the patronage of the Hungarian Academy of Science.
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Publications
Takács, S.; Pék, Z.; Csányi, D.; Daood, H.G.; Szuvandzsiev, P.; Palotás, G.; Helyes, L. Influence of Water Stress Levels on the Yield and Lycopene Content of Tomato. Water 2020, 12, 2165. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12082165
Égei M, Takács S, Palotás G, Palotás G, Szuvandzsiev P, Daood HG, Helyes L, Pék Z. Prediction of Soluble Solids and Lycopene Content of Processing Tomato Cultivars by Vis-NIR Spectroscopy. Front Nutr. 2022 Jun 28;9:845317. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.845317. PMID: 35836590; PMCID: PMC9274195.
Takács, S.; Csengeri, E.; Pék, Z.; Bíró, T.; Szuvandzsiev, P.; Palotás, G.; Helyes, L. Performance Evaluation of AquaCrop Model in Processing Tomato Biomass, Fruit Yield and Water Stress Indicator Modelling. Water 2021, 13, 3587. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243587
M’hamdi, O.; Takács, S.; Palotás, G.; Ilahy, R.; Helyes, L.; Pék, Z. A Comparative Analysis of XGBoost and Neural Network Models for Predicting Some Tomato Fruit Quality Traits from Environmental and Meteorological Data. Plants 2024, 13, 746. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050746
Balázs, V.; Helyes, L.; Daood, H.G.; Pék, Z.; Neményi, A.; Égei, M.; Takács, S. Effect of Fertilization Level on the Yield, Carotenoids, and Phenolic Content of Orange- and Purple-Fleshed Sweet Potato. Horticulturae 2023, 9, 523. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9050523
Projects
GINOP-2.2.1-15-2016-00003 – Research program of the Univer Product Plc. on spicepaprika and processing tomato
Different kinds of experimental PGPR products were tested in field experiments under different levels of water deficit stress. The interactive effect of stress and PGPRs were evaluated on the quantitative and qualitative parameters of processing tomato.
