spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nicolaus von Wirén, coordinator: Dr. Britt Leps
Doctoral students from over 30 countries are engaged in research aiming to improve crop plants. Their work is focused on enhancing adaptation to drought and high temperature, strengthening host resistance to a number of diseases, bolstering the plants‘ capacity to take up nutrients and water from the soil, and generally increasing crop productivity. [read more]
The graduate school is part of Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK). It is one of the world’s leading international institutions in the field of plant genetics and crop science. Its research programme and services contribute materially to conserving, exploring and exploiting crop diversity. Its research goals are driven by the need to ensure an efficient and sustainable supply of food, energy and raw materials, thereby addressing a major global ecological challenge. website
Partners:
- Universität Göttingen
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Julius Kühn-Institut, Quedlinburg
- Hochschule Anhalt
- Hochschule Harz
- Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm
- National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan