Aija Rebāne Academic position Researcher Mg. agr. Field of research 2. Preservation of biological diversity in agro- and forest biocenoses, ecosystem protection and services E-mail aija.rebane@lbtu.lv Telephone +37128617707 She has obtained a master’s degree in agriculture from the Latvia University of Agriculture in 2008. She works as a researcher in the perennial herbaceous plant breeding working group at the LBTU LPTF ZI. She is an experienced researcher, author and co-author of several scientific publications. The topic of her work is “Genetic diversity of legume plants - the basis for accelerated variety breeding in organic agriculture”. The most important publications (2019-2025) S. Rancāne , (2021), Assessment of Lolium perenne tetraploid clones produced from a diverse diploid breeding population = Lolium perenne tetraploidinių klonų, sukurtų iš skirtingos diploidinės selekcinės populiacijos, įvertinimas, Zemdirbyste-Agriculture, ISSN 1392-3196 S. Rancāne , (2020), Use of flow cytometry for producing tetraploids in red clover, Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact and Applied Sciences, ISSN 1407-009X