Ioannis Karapanos specializes on vegetable crops production systems, quality, postharvest physiology and technology of vegetable species, production and biology of sexual and asexual propagation material in vegetables, physiology of fruit-set and use of plant growth regulators in horticulture. He has been teaching for 11 years undergraduate and postgraduate courses on vegetable production in the field and in greenhouses, postharvest handling of vegetables, production and handling of propagating material (sexual and asexual) in vegetables.