Assignments and Research Activities:

• Scientific processing of vegetable species
• Evaluation and phenotyping of genetic resources concerning important traits for breeding
• Investigation of the genetic basis for inheritance of characters relevant for breeding
• Development of breeding methods and strategies for vegetables
• Intra- and interspecific as well as intergeneric hybridization to increase the genetic variability and transfer breeding relevant characters
• Flowerbiological and histological investigations

Boards and memberships:

• Society for Plant Breeding  (GPZ)
• National representative, European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources  (ECPGR), Umbellifer working group

Teaching:

• Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Agrarian and Nutrition science of Faculty III of Natural Science

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut