Wageningen UR Plant Breeding
The expertise group Wageningen UR Plant Breeding exists since 2005 and is a cooperation between:
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding of Wageningen University
- Business unit Biodiversity and breeding of Plant Research International
Wageningen UR Plant Breeding is involved in education, research and consultation in the field of plant breeding in the broadest sense. Education is performed at all levels from BSc, MSc and PhD to specific courses for external parties. Plant breeding and genetic resources is one of the MSc specialisations within the study Plant Sciences.
Within Plant Breeding major emphasis is placed on the development, characterisation, maintenance and exploitation of genetic material. To this end collections of plants (segregating populations, Nils, Rils, DH, transformation host etc) are made in the most important focus crops Brassica rapa, barley, potato, tomato, lily and rose. Besides this, tools for efficient breeding are developed like molecular markers for traits (genes, libraries, maps etc). This leads to the deposition of large amounts of phenotypic and descriptive data (Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Microarray, consumer tests) in databases. The efficient use and integration of all these datasets is made possible through the development and implementation of statistical & computer programmes which we develop as well.
Wageningen UR Plant Breeding has more than 120 personnel and at any time between 50-80 students and guests. Research is organised around five themes with emphasis on crop plants although whenever possible and useful Arabidopsis is included or used.
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