Tasks

• Developing strategies for climate adaptation of cereals
• Examinations on yield and quality formation under drought stress in wheat and rye
• Evaluation of baking wheat quality under varied nitrogen supply
• Coordination and implementation of field, rain-out shelter and greenhouse trials as well as downstream laboratory analysis and statistical evaluation
• Interacting with stakeholders and transfer of results into practice

Research projects:

• Optimization of the potential of semi-dwarfs in rye for increasing the climate protection performance of cereal crop rotations (PRoKlima)
• Genome-based strategies to use the tertiary gene-pool for breeding of climate-smart wheat (TERTIUS)
• Increasing nitrogen fertilization efficiency and reduction of nitrogen surpluses in the production of baking wheat by using new specific crop variety traits (N-DECREASE)