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Plant Breeding Unit

Institution

Description

Plant Breeding is one of the cutting-edge areas of agricultural research. With a tool box encompassing a wide spectrum of modern methods, the objective at Göttingen is to identify optimum combinations among them. To obtain maximum benefit from the genetic resources both classical approaches (interspecific crosses, release of mutations, quantitative genetics and selection theory, high-throughput methods of quality assessment, field trials running under conventional, low-input and under organic conditions) and biotechnological approaches (production of haploids, molecular markers, genome analyses, genetic engineering) are employed. The division is currently made up of six research groups: Genetic Resources in Rapeseed, Biotechnology und Quality Breeding in Rapeseed, Genome Analysis and Application of Markers in Rapeseed, Breeding Research in Faba Bean, Einkorn, and Section of Genetic Resources and Organic Breeding.

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Activities

  • Research

Parent institution

University of Goettingen

Coordinated projects

Contact

Plant Breeding Unit
Von-Siebold-Str. 8
37075 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany

Phone: 0551 39 4362
Fax: 0551 39 4601
Email: shippe(@)gwdg.de

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