Prof. Dr. Frank Ordon
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Julius Kühn-Institut
Erwin-Baur-Str. 27
06484 Quedlinburg
Julius Kühn-Institut
Erwin-Baur-Str. 27
06484 Quedlinburg
Research:
Molecular plant breeding
- Estimation of genetic diversity in several crop species with special consideration of barley and exploitation of genetic diversity by marker based breeding strategies including the identification of marker trait associations.
- Development of markers for resistance genes to fungal and viral pathogens in crop species up to gene isolation
- Identification of QTL and genes for resistance/tolerance to abiotic stress (drought/heat)
Boards and memberships:
- Editor in Chief Plant Breeding since 01.01.2008
- Editorial Board of Theoretical and Applied Genetics since 01.10.2005
- Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Genetics since 01.04.2006
- Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality since 05.2013
- Editorial Board of "Annals of agricultural science, Moshtohor" since 02.04.2011
- Peer Review College of the Danish Council for Strategic Research since 15.07.2008
- Advisory Board of the State Breeding Institute of the University of Hohenheim since 12.08.2008
- Acting Vice President of the German Society of Plant Breeding (GPZ), since 01.10.2008
- Board of the Interdiciplinary Centre for Crop Science (IZN ) at the University of Halle since 01.01.2009
- Editorial board of Journal of Cultivated Plant ssince 01.01.2009
- Permanent guest on the DFG senate commission on agroecosystem researchsince January 2012
- Member of the 2030 Scientific Coordinating Committee (SCC) since March 2012
- Representative of Germany on the research committee of the International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement since March 2012
- Member of the "Task force abaout user engagement" of ECPGR since June 2013
- Member of the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR)
- Member of the Beirat der Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt since 03.06.2019
- Member of the scientific advisory board of CEPLAS
- Coordinator, Region I: West Europe in the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS), since 12/2019