Current: 

• 2024–2026: “A ‘vaccine’ for black rot – biocontrol of Xanthomonas campestris campestris on the autochthonous cabbage cultivar Futoški using plant-associated beneficial bacteria” – XanthoSTOP, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia under the Program for Excellent Projects of Young Researchers and Early Career Scientists (PROMIS 2023, project registration number 10837) – Principal Investigator (xanthostop.com)

Past:

• 2020–2022: “New Approaches for Biocontrol of the Novel Group of Plant Tumorigenic Agrobacteria Discovered in Serbia and Germany” – BIOCTA, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia under the Program for Cooperation between Serbian Science and the Diaspora: Knowledge Exchange Vouchers (project number 6436066; PI: Dr. Ivica Dimkić, Project Partner: Dr. Nemanja Kuzmanović) – Participant
• 2019–2021: “Barley genotypes with contrasting tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses: Do chloroplast derived redox signals mediate the trade-off strategy“ funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within the framework of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Germany (Serbian PI: Dr. Sonja Veljović Jovanović; German PI: Dr. Hans-Peter Mock) – Participant
• 2018–2019: “Modulation of antioxidative metabolism in plants for improvement of plant abiotic stress tolerance and identification of new biomarkers for application in remediation and monitoring of degraded biotopes” funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (project number III 43010; PI: Dr. Sonja Veljović Jovanović) – Participant

1. Popović Milovanović, T., Jelušić, A., Iličić, R., Trkulja, N., Damnjanović, J., Adžić, S., Živković, I. 2025. Biocontrol potential of indigenous pepper seed Bacillus strains against Xanthomonas euvesicatoria. Pest Management Science. doi: 10.1002/ps.8843
2. Popović Milovanović, T.,Iličić, R., Bagi, F., Aleksić, G., Trkulja, N., Trkulja, V., Jelušić, A. Biocontrol of Seedborne Fungi on Small-Grained Cereals Using Bacillus halotolerans Strain B33. Journal of Fungi, 11(2), 144. doi: 10.3390/jof11020144
3. Dimkić, I., Jelušić, A., Kruščić, K., Janakiev, T. 2024. Pathobiome and Microbial Community Shifts Associated with Vegetable, Fruit, and Cereal Crops. In: Verma, P.K., Mishra, S., Srivastava, V., Mehrotra, S. (eds) Plant Pathogen Interaction, pp. 237–258. Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-4890-1_9
4. Iličić, R., Jelušić, A., Barać, G., Nikolić, D., Stošić, N., Scortichini, M., Popović Milovanović, T. 2024. In Depth Characterization of Crown Gall Disease of Tobacco in Serbia. Agronomy, 14, 851. doi: 10.3390/agronomy14040851
5. Marković, S., Popović Milovanović, T., Jelušić, A., Iličić, R., Medić, O., Stanković, S. 2023. Biological control of major pathogenic bacteria of potato by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strains SS-12.6 and SS-38.4. Biological Control, 182, 105238. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2023.105238
6. Jelušić, A., Mitrović, P., Marković, S., Iličić, R., Milovanović, P., Stanković, S., Popović Milovanović, T. 2023. Diversity of Bacterial Soft Rot-Causing Pectobacterium Species Affecting Cabbage in Serbia. Microorganisms, 11(2), 335. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11020335
7. Marković, S., Popović, T., Berić, T., Dimkić, I., Jelušić, A., Iličić, R., Stanković, S. 2023. Metabarcoding approach for evaluation of bacterial diversity in soft rotting potato tubers and corresponding geocaulospheres. Potato Research, 66, 793-810. doi: 10.1007/s11540-022-09601-9
8. Jelušić, A., Popović, T., Dimkić, I., Mitrović, P., Peeters, K., Miklavčič Višnjevec, A., Tavzes, Č., Stanković, S., Berić, T. 2021. Changes in the winter oilseed rape microbiome affected by Xanthomonas campestris campestris and biocontrol potential of the indigenous Bacillus and Pseudomonas isolates. Biological Control, 160, 104695. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2021.104695
9. Jelušić, A., Berić, T., Mitrović, P., Dimkić, I., Stanković, S., Marjanović-Jeromela, A., Popović, T. 2021. New insights into the genetic diversity of Xanthomonas campestris campestris isolates from winter oilseed rape in Serbia. Plant Pathology, 70(1), 35–49. doi: 10.1111/ppa.13273
10. Popović, T., Mitrović, P., Jelušić, A., Dimkić, I., Marjanović‐Jeromela, A., Nikolić, I., Stanković, S. 2019. Genetic diversity and virulence of Xanthomonas campestris campestris isolates from Brassica napus and six Brassica oleracea crops in Serbia. Plant Pathology, 68, 1448–1457. doi: 10.1111/ppa.13064