Aleksandar Simic

Current address:

Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University, Serbia

Phone: +38 163 1028604

E-mail address : alsimic@ptt.yu

Education background:

2002 Masters of Science, Biotechnology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

1995 Bachelor of Science, Agronomy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Positions held:

  • 2002 – Present: Research Assistant at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University
  • 1996 - 2002: Teaching Assistant at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade

Workshops/training attended::

  • Summer 2004: Course on seed technology and vigor testing application, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • August-September 2005: Norman E. Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

Research interests:

Grass seed production and quality, forage production and quality, natural meadows and pastures, forage utilization, new standards in forage seed production (seed vigor)

Papers:

A. Simic and S. Vuckovic (2006): Possibilities of Italian ryegrass seed production in northwestern Serbia. Proceedings of Scientific Works, Vol. 12 No. 1-2, (2006) 133-140. Institute PKB Agroekonomik.

Simic, A., Vuckovic, S., Sabovljevic, R.(2005): Seed yield and quality of Italian ryegrass (Lolium italicum L.) different ploidy produced in first harvest year. Selection and Seed Production, vol. XI, No. 1-4 (2005), pp. 19-24

Simic, A., Djordjevic, S., Zivanovic, Lj., Vuckovic, S. (2005): Effect of microbiological fertilizer »Slavol« on forage rape seed yield. Proceedings of the XIX Meeting, Institute PKB Agroekonomik Vol. 11 No. 1, (2005) 133-138. Institute PKB
Agroekonomik.

Vuckovic, S., Simic, A., (2005): Birdsfoot trefoil seed production. Proceedings of the XIX Meeting, Institute PKB Agroekonomik Vol. 11 No. 1-2, (2005) 125-132.

Vuckovic, S., Krstanovic, S., Cupina, B., Simic, A., Ivana Stojanovic, Stanisavljevic, R., Vojin, S., Marina Vuckovic (2004): Red clover seed production. Proceedings of the XVIII Meeting, 10 No 1 (2004) p. 101-107. Institute PKB
Agroekonomik
Vuckovic, S., Simic, A., Cupina, B., Stojanovic Ivana, Stanisavljevic, R., Vojin, S. i Dubljevic, R. (2004): The effect of time mowing first growth on lucerne seed yield in Western Srem agroecological conditions. Acta Agriculturae Serbica,
Vol. IX, 17 (2004) p. 123-127.

Vuckovic, S., Simic, A., Krstanovic, S., Ivana Stojanovic, Stanisavljevic, R., Vojin, S., Marina Vuckovic (2003): Alfalfa seed production. Proceedings of the XVII Meeting, 9 (2003) p.99-105. Institute PKB Agroekonomik

Simic, A., Vuckovic, S., Cupina, B., Jordanovic, O. (2003): The influence of interrow spacing to seed yield and seed quality in red fescue (Festuca rubra L.) and redtop (Agrostis alba L.). Grassland science in Europe 8 : 122-125.

Vuckovic, S., Simic, A., Cupina, B., Stojanovic, I., Stanisavljevic, R. (2003): The effect of vegetation area size on grass seed yield. Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Belgrade, Vol. 48, No.1, 2003, pp. 125-134

Vuckovic, S., Simic, A., Krstanovic, S., Stojanovic, I., Stanisavljevic, R., Vojin, S., Vuckovic, M. (2002): Effect of vegetation area size on alfalfa seed yield, Proceedings of the XVI Meeting, 8 2002:137-143. Institute PKB Agroekonomik.

Simic, A., Vuckovic, S., Nedic, M. and Vuckovic M. (2002): Influence of Post-harvest Burning Date and Term of N Apllication on Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) seed yield. Grassland science in Europe 7: 354-356.

Rakocevic M., Simic A., Pekaric-Nadj N., Lazarevic J., Zarubica K. (1998) Stimulation of Agrostis capillaris L. caryopsis germination by pulsative magnetic field during a one year period. Proceedings of XVII General Meeting of European
Grassland Federation, Debrecen, Hungary: 115 -118.

Rakocevic M., Lazarevic J., Pekaric-Nadj N., Simic A. (1997) Stimulation of Agrostis capillaris L. caryopsis germination by pulsative magnetic fields. Proceedings of II International Congress of Electromagnetism in Biology and Medicine, Bologna,
Italy : 256.