Assignments and Research Activities:

• Development and selection of high quality sweet and sour cherry cultivars
• Screening potential cherry rootstocks
• Interspecific hybridization for increasing the genetic variability of breeding material
• Research of resistance to cherry leaf spot, Blumeriella jaapii
• Fertility in cherries, S-allele determination

Memberships:

• International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
• Gesellschaft für Pflanzenzüchtung (GPZ)
• European Association for Research on Plant Breeding(EUCARPIA)

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut