Previous projects

MAIZE

BayKlimaFit 2 - Strong plants mitigating the impact of climate change (2021-2024)

Pleiotropy or linkage - one genomic segment controls multiple drought related traits in maize (2019-2023) (SFB924/3)

FullThrottle - Maximizing photosynthetic efficiency in maize (2016-2019)

BayKlimaFit - Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to climate change (2016-2019)

Unraveling complex trait architecture using DNA sequence data (2016-20219)

Functional characterization of candidate genes significantly associated with carbon isotope discrimination in maize (SFB924/2) (2015-2019)

Synbreed – Synergistic plant and animal breeding (2009-2015)

Genetic analysis of complex traits: major components of drought tolerance and growth-related traits (SFB924/1) (2011-2025)

Root characteristics associated with drought tolerance in maize (2011-2014)

Sustainable maintenance of grain maize production by improving classical resistance against the European corn borer (2011-2014)

Plant-KBBE Cornfed - Integration of advanced mapping and phenotyping methods to identify key allels for building European maize ideotypes (2009-2012)

OPTIMAIS - Improving biomass yield in energy maize by optimizing the water use efficiency through breeding (2009-2012)

SUNFLOWER

InnoSun – Using new innovative breeding approaches in sunflower to increase oil yield, oleic acid content and disease resistance (2017-2020)

SUNRISE - Genomics assisted breeding in sunflower for better yield potential, stability and efficiency (2011-2015)

RYE

RYE-SELECT: Genome-based precision breeding strategies for rye (2011-2015)

Detecting footprints of selection in rye (Secale cereale L.) - unraveling the past for future crop improvement (2010-2013)

GABI RYE-EXPRESS: Establishing a high-density transcript map in rye based on stress-induced genes (2008-2011)

GABI RYE-FROST: Exploiting allelic and phenotypic diversity for frost tolerance in winter rye (2008-2011)

GABI TILL: Expansion and use of the GABI-TILLING platform for crop gene function analysis (Teilprojekt F: Rye) (2008-2011)

Characterization of resistance donors against soil-borne cereal mosaic virus (SBCMV) and wheat spindle streak mosaic virus (WSSMV) in genetic ressources of rye and their use for breeding of virus resistant cultivars (2008-2011)