The business unit Biodiversity and Plant Breeding develops and uses methods and technologies for the detection and characterisation of functional genetic diversity and the processes that control this diversity.
Our scientist further develop basic genetic understanding of crops and convert this knowledge into new strategies and technologies in plant breeding.
Main features are:
- instruments for detecting and quantifying genetic variation and efficiently deploying this in biodiversity and breeding research
- molecular markers and other improved identification and selection methods
- prototypes of genetically modified crops with new characteristics, breeding material and varieties.
Cooperation
The business unit Biodiversity and Breeding and the Laboratory of Plant Breeding of Wageningen University work together in "Plant Breeding".
In 2008 the former PPO-business unit Mushrooms was added to Biodiversity and Breeding.
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