Research objectives

• Developing new apple cultivars with altered flowering time for better adaptation to climate change
• Generating genetic maps of segregating apple populations
• QTL mapping for flowering time and dormancy
• Testing relevant candidate genes

Memberships

• Member of the German Society of Plant Breeding e.V. gpz-online.de
• Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) www.ishs.org

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut