Assignments and research

Project „BIOKUE-Linie“: Development of breeding lines with higher yield and essential oil content for summer-annual and winter-annual growing of caraway (Carum carvi).

• Development and selection of breeding lines for summer-annual and winter-annual growing of caraway
• Development and evaluation of ‘synthetic populations’ to exploit heterosis
• Evaluation and optimization of breeding methods
• Establishment and application of molecular-genetic techniques in caraway breeding

Project „LEADER“: Resistance breeding of potato against Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle) and Epitrix spp. (potato flea beetle).

• Analysis of phenotypic data from resistance tests
• Genetic mapping/identification of resistance loci
• Development of genetic markers for resistance loci
• Analysis, comparison and selection of resistance mechanisms
  

Memberships

• Gesellschaft für Pflanzenzüchtung eV
• Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg e. V.

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut