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Plant Breeding Unit
Institution
Section overview
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.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative Project: Brassica wild species as a new genetic source for rapeseed breeding - Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Breeding methods, performance and adaption of maize populations. Development of a diverse population for further approaches in science, breeding and practical agriculture
- Collaborative project: Breeding of oilseed rape with resistance to insect pests favoured by climate change – Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Enhancing resistance of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) against the fungal parhogen Verticillium longisporum depending on climate change. Subproject 2
- Development of a marker-assisted improvement of drought tolerance in faba bean - subproject 2
- Development of maize varieties for organic agriculture
- Development of maize varieties for organic agriculture
- Development of winter faba beans for organic farming
- Enhancement of the variety spectrum of summer peas
- Expansion of soybean cultivation in Germany through breeding adaptation and agronomic optimization
- GABI-FUTURE - Collaborative projects: omics-based strategies to increase the oil content in rapeseed (GABI-OIL) subprojects Q: University of Göttingen
- Genetic adaptation to local, organic growing conditions: comparison between the best pure line and genetically broader population example summer and winter field beans
- Italian chicory and Sugarloaf (Chicorium intybus var. foliosum) – development of populations and evaluation of breeding methods useful for organic horticulture
- Joint project: development of energy maize varieties for intercropping with beans - optimizing the breeding strategy, subproject 1: Evaluation of the tests regarding selection response and methods
- Safflower as a new crop in organic farming
- Site specific adaptation by natural selection. A case study with lentil (Lens culinaris Medik)
- The 'breeder's eye '- a sociological study on the knowledge in organic plant breeding
- Tomatoes for organic farming in field farming - breeding methodology and regional variety development
- Tomatoes for organic field farming. Breeding methodology and regional development of varieties
Involved in research projects
- Collaborative project: Breeding of oilseed rape with resistance to insect pests favoured by climate change – Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Nutrient inputs into drainage systems of grassland areas in northern Germany: Analysis to derive recommendations for action. Subproject 2
- GABI-FUTURE - Collaborative projects: omics-based strategies to increase the oil content in rapeseed (GABI-OIL) A sub-projects: the North German plant breeding
- GABI-FUTURE - Collaborative projects: omics-based strategies to increase the oil content in rapeseed (GABI-OIL) Subproject I: University of Bonn
- ÖKO-MAIS Development of maize varieties for organic agriculture
- Participatory development of quality tomatoes for the sustainable regional cultivation
- Selection on methionine-rich domestic legumes (Vicia faba, Pisum sativum und Lupinus angustifolius)
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