Research objectives

• Identification of candidate genes for valuable traits
• Functional characterization of candidate genes
• Development of new selection strategies

Memberships/Activities

• Editorial Board Plant Breeding
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14390523
• Editorial Board Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture
  https://www.springer.com/journal/11240
• Editorial Board European Journal of Horticultural Science
  http://www.pubhort.org/ejhs/
• Editorial Board Journal für Kulturpflanzen
  https://ojs.openagrar.de/index.php/Kulturpflanzenjournal
• German Fruit Genebank Advisory Council
  https://www.deutsche-genbank-obst.de
• Advisory council „Horticulture“ des Sächsischen Landesamtes für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie (LfULG)
  https://www.lfulg.sachsen.de
• Executive Board Gesellschaft für Pflanzenzüchtung e.V. (GPZ)
  https://gpz-online.de/
• Executive Board German Society on Horticultural Science e.V. (DGG)
  http://www.dgg-online.org
• Gemeinschaft Förderer und Freunde des Julius Kühn-Instituts e. V. (GFF)
  https://www.julius-kuehn.de/foerdervereine
• Working group Malus/Pyrus, Prunus European council of plant genetic resources ECPGR
  https://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org
• Associate Professor Faculty of Natural Science III - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  https://www.landw.uni-halle.de/prof/plantbreeding

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut