Margit Olle

Margit Olle (before marriage on 19.07.2003 Margit Kleemann) was born on 27.05.1971. She finished Secondary School No. 5 in Tartu with a Silver medal. She studied for her B. Sc. at the Estonian Agricultural University and finished in 1993 Cum Laude, passing all exams excellently. In 1995, she defended her M. Sc. at the same Institution. She took her doctoral studies in 1995 – 1999 in Norway at the Agricultural University of Norway and defended her Doctor Scientiarum degree on her 28th birthday on 27.05.1999 in Norway.

Since 2021 she works as Chairman of the Board of the NPO Veggies Cultivation. This is a private non profit research organisation dealing with research in vegetables agrotechnology (in protected areas - greenhouses, growth chambers - vertical farming - and on open land - field). From 2008 - 2020 she has worked as a senior researcher at the Estonian Crop Research Institute (former Jogeva Plant Breeding Institute). She speaks Estonian, English, Norwegian, and some Russian. The main field of her work is scientific research in vegetable production on open land and in protected areas. She has published numerous review articles in addition to research articles in her field. She has published numerous high-quality peer-reviewed articles as the first author. She has also published several research monographs - books in English and one general vegetable cultivation book in the Estonian language. She has been invited speaker in Estonia and around the globe, has organized conferences, has been in scientific committees, and is a member of editorial boards of international scientific journals. She is the chief editor of an international scientific journal - EUREKA: Life Sciences.

Discoveries by Dr. Margit Olle:

1. (first innovative idea): Plants were grown under a far-red filter, which filters out much of far-red light. Far-red light is responsible for the elongation of plants. When grown under a far-red filter to remove much of the far-red light then plants remain more compact (knowledge from Japan). With far-red filter plants contain more Calcium and show fewer Ca deficiency symptoms (Margit Olle discovery, not a patent, unfortunately).

2. (second innovative idea): Negative DIF is when the night temperature is higher than the day temperature. In such conditions plants stay more compact (Roar Moe from Norway have lots of papers about it). Under negative DIF conditions plants contain more Calcium and there is fewer Ca deficiency symptoms on plants (Margit Olle discovery, not a patent, unfortunately).

3. (third innovative idea): Effective microorganisms (EM) improve the quality of tomato transplants because they remain compact with greater stem diameter (Margit Olle discovery, not a patent, unfortunately).

Awards:

2015, Margit Olle; Margit Olle biography is in Who is Who in the World 2015 (32 Edition);

2015, Margit Olle; Margit Olle CV is in the 2000 outstanding intellectuals of the 21st Century, 9th Edition;

2016, Margit Olle; Margit Olle biography is in Who is Who in the World 2016 (33 Edition);

2017, Margit Olle; The Board of NJF express our sincere gratitude to Margit Olle in recognition of the significant contribution to agricultural science in the Nordic-Baltic countries by the President of the NJF;

2017, Margit Olle; Who's Who Lifetime Achievement.

Private life:

She is married to Vallo Olle and has a son Raimond Olle (born on 18.02.2004).