Plant Breeding
The Plant Breeding chair group studies the fundamental biological and genetic principles that drive crop improvement. The researchers explore the processes underlying plant development, quality, resilience, and adaptation by integrating bioinformatics, developmental biology, quantitative genetics, and statistics. Understanding how molecular mechanisms contribute to specific traits forms the scientific foundation for future advances in crop resilience, productivity, and sustainability.
Research themes
Fundamental and applied
We collaborate with the Plant Breeding business unit to translate fundamental insights into practical knowledge for industry use.
Education
Education by Plant Breeding
Plant Breeding offers the opportunity for bachelor and master student to join the lab for a thesis. In addition, the chair group contributes to several BSc and MSc programmes. For students looking for a more flexible option, the programme Plant Breeding offers a part-time online master’s specialisation with a workload of 20 hours per week.
Publications & Projects
Our research focuses on the characterisation, conservation and use of genetic material. We build collections of plants, develop instruments for detection, quantification and efficient utilisation of genetic variation, we develop methods to make plant breeding more efficient, and we develop statistical and computer programmes to enable efficient use of data. The results of our work are regularly published in scientific journals and other media.
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People of Plant Breeding
Meet the people of Plant Breeding.
