Dr. Susan Schröpfer
Wissenschaftlerin / Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops
Contact
- Telephone: +49 3946 47 8011
- Mobile phone: +49 152 57645841
- E-mail: susan.schroepfer@julius-kuehn.de
Address
Julius Kühn-Institut
Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops
Pillnitzer Platz 3a
01326 Dresden / Pillnitz
Julius Kühn-Institut
Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops
Pillnitzer Platz 3a
01326 Dresden / Pillnitz
Tasks
- Breeding of high-quality sweet and sour cherry cultivars with stable yields and pronounced tolerance to pathogens and climate-related stress
- Utilization of genetic diversity through the evaluation of base and interspecific crosses
- Development, establishment, and application of molecular markers in stone fruit breeding
- Research on the development of molecular markers for climate-adapted stone fruit cultivars
- Genotyping of S-alleles
- Studies on the inheritance of economically important traits
Memberships
- Member of the German society for Plant Breeding. (GPZ)
- Member of the Stone Fruit Commission – Breeding Working Group
- Member of the Working Group for Fruit Performance Trials of the Association of Chambers of Agriculture
- Member of the Sweet and Sour Cherry Working Group of the EUFRIN (European Fruit Research Institutes) network (European Fruit Research Institutes)
- Member of the German Society for Horticultural Science (DGG)
- Member of the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO) (VBIO)
- Supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses as well as individual student internships
Scientific publication and communication networks
- OpenAgrar: View publications