@article{
author = "Vishnyakova, Margarita and Sinjushin, Andrey and Ćupina, Branko and Rubiales, Diego and Ellis, Noel and Vaz Patto, Carlotta and Medović, Aleksandar and Zorić, Lana and Smykal, Petr",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Aleksandar Mikić was born in Pančevo, Serbia, on 9 January 1974, and died on 5 September 2021, Novi Sad, Serbia. He received BSc in 1998, MSc in 2008, and PhD in 2014 in Plant Genetics and Breeding
at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture. He worked as Research Associate and annual legume breeder at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 2000 to 2018.
His fields of interest encompassed conventional and molecular genetics, genetic resources, breeding, agronomy, agroecology, and crop history of annual legumes. Dr. Mikić co-authored more than
350 journal papers, about 120 international conference papers, over 10 book chapters and one book. He has also authored more than 30 cultivars of annual legumes and various forage crops registered in
Serbia and abroad. Aleksandar's scientific horizons were endless, including archaeobotany, linguistics, plant biology, breeding, and farmers communities.",
publisher = "Wiley",
journal = "Legume Science",
title = "Aleksandar Mikić, the legume (re)searcher",
number = "3",
pages = "e134",
volume = "4",
doi = "10.1002/leg3.134"
}