Department of Plant Breeding
Diss Jonas Skytte af Sätra
Apple genomics for the Swedish breeding programme lotta.malmborg@slu.se Jonas Skytte af Sätra, Department of Plant Breeding, defends his thesis "Apple genomics for the Swedish breeding programme".
Basic Education
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Department of Plant Breeding
Our vision is that our work shall make significant contributions to an efficient and sustainable production of food, feed and industrial products from plants. We have active public breeding programs
Practical research training
Characterization of leaf and pod morphology in a diverse collection of peas (Pisum sativum) and developing a field phenotyping method for measuring canopy temperature in pea Characterization of seed
MSc projects
Evaluation of genetic markers for convicine and vicine content in a diversity panel of faba bean Food and feed protein from green leaves – Increasing the protein recovery rates Investigation on
Research Education
Research education at our department includes doctoral education (4 years) and licentiate education (2 years). Our research education is funded mainly by governmental and private research foundations
Delivering heat tolerant alleles to raise farm income along the Senegal River
Mauritania and Senegal are famine-affected poor countries. Previous research at two field stations led to identifying heat tolerant durum wheat varieties. That work was deemed deserving of the 2017
Dissertation Noel Madalla
Evaluation and release of East African highland cooking banana ‘Matooke’ hybrids” lotta.malmborg@slu.se Noel Madalla, department of Plant Breeding, defends his thesis “Evaluation and release of
SLU Centre for Biological Control's annual report 2022
“SLU has never had such a strong position in biological control as now”, says Johan Stenberg, the Director of the SLU Centre for Biological Control, CBC. Now, CBC’s annual popular science overview of
Millets 2023
The United Nations has dedicated 2023 the International year of millets, to boost efforts in producing millets given their nutritional properties and resilience in adapting to climate change. SLU
Successful studies in the development of drought-tolerant sorghum
Researchers from SLU, together with Addis Ababa University and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, have initially identified new sources of germplasm that can be used to breed
PhD theses by Department of Plant Breeding
PhD theses by Department of Plant Breeding fredrik.reslow@slu.se