Līga Zemeca Academic position Research assistant MSc. biol., PhD student Field of research 1. Implementation of the "One Health" concept and species interaction studies in the context of climate change E-mail liga.zemeca@lbtu.lv Telephone +37125920888 Obtained a master's degree in biology and currently developing her PhD thesis “Wheat yellow rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis) biology and possibilities of control” at the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. The work experience has been acquired at the Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre, a group of arable crops pathology (2012-2018), where she worked on an evaluation of the effectiveness of plant protection products. Since 2019 she is taking active participation in research in Institute of Plant Protection Research “Agrihorts”. Resarch areas - phytophatology of arable crops. She is the author or co-author of peer-reviewed publications indexed in SCOPUS, with an h-index of 3. The most important projects (2019-2025) Alternative pest management options in oats and rye, 2023 , project leader RustWatch: A European early-warning system for wheat rust diseases, 2019 Yellow rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis) racial distribution in Latvia and possibilities of control its devastation, 2019 , project leader The most important publications (2019-2025) L. Zemeca , (2024), Management of rust in wheat using IPM principles and alternative products, Agriculture, ISSN 2077-0472 L. Zemeca , (2022), Stem rust on barberry species in Europe: Host specificities and genetic diversity, Frontiers in Genetics B. Bankina, L. Zemeca , (2019), Possibilities for the biological control of yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in winter wheat in Latvia in 2017–2018, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X
