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Research topics Plant Breeding

Plantation research is organized into five major themes with emphasis on crop plants although whenever possible and useful Arabidopsis is included or used. Two themes are subdivided into three and four smaller groups respectively.

Research approach
Our research focuses on the characterization, conservation and use of genetic material. This means the following:

• We are building collections of plants, in particular brassicae, barley, potato, tomato, lily and rose.
  
• We are developing instruments for the detection, quantification and efficient use of genetic variation for research on functional biodiversity and crop breeding.
  
• We are developing methods to make plant breeding more efficient, such as molecular markers and other improved identification, selection and transformation methods.
  
• We are developing statistical and computer programs to allow efficient use of all the data we are generating for crop breeding.
  

Academic and applied
Plant Breeding is a collaboration between the Plant Breeding of Wageningen Plant business unit and the Chair Group Plant Breeding.

Plant Breeding combines academic scientific experience with a more applied strategic experience. This mixture of several lines of focus allows us to convert the fundamental knowledge into knowledge for later use by the industry.

Plant breeding has more than 120 employees and a large number of guest workers. In addition, about 50 to 80 students are active.