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The MSc Agricultural Biosciences study program started in the academic year 2020/21 and now the first students completed their studies or are on their way to graduation. On July 6 we took the opportunity to celebrate and congratulate our students for the effort and hard work they have put into their… [read more]

For his dissertation entitled "Discovery of novel beneficial alleles in maize landraces for the improvement of quantitative traits", Manfred Mayer received the Wricke Research Award 2022. He was also awarded the Gatersleben Research Prize 2022 of the Association for the Promotion of Crop Plant… [read more]

Tomorrow starts today - the environment and consumer podcast [read more]

Tomorrow starts today - the environment and consumer podcast of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection [read more]

staff of the chair are part of the program "Unser Land" [read more]

The project MAZE "Mais-Landrassen für neue Vielfalt" is described on pflanzenforschung.de (in German language only). Link [read more]

in German language only This booklet is presenting examples of key topics in current plant research. Our research aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of an optimal plant development as an effort to ensure high productivity with limited use of resources. For this goal to be accomplished… [read more]

At the PLANT2030 Status Seminar, Clara Polzer was awarded a prize for one of the three best poster videos for the presentation of her poster "A genome-based rapid cycling selection experiment". [read more]

The German Maize Committee e.V. has awarded Manfred Mayer the 2021 "Förderpreis" of 2.500 EUR for his PhD thesis "Discovery of novel beneficial alleles in maize landraces for the improvement of quantitative traits". Manfred Mayer also received a prize for outstanding doctoral theses awarded by… [read more]

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The project network MAZE under the leadership of the TUM Chair of Plant Breeding was able to show with a combination of new molecular and statistical methods that advantageous genes from old maize varieties, so-called landraces, can be used to improve traits in current breeding material. The results… [read more]

The publication in Nature Genetics describes the analysis of four different European maize lines using modern sequencing technologies and bioinformatics approaches. Researches of the joint projects BayKlimaFit and MAZE participated in this study. Press release HMGU "European and American maize:… [read more]

The newest edition #24 of the TUM scientific magazine „Faszination Forschung“ reports about research at the chair of plant breeding: Intelligent plant improvement: Searching for the needle in the haystack Artificial intelligence methods help in the development of new, resistant grain species. [read more]

New for the winter term 20/21 International Master's Degree "Agricultural Biosciences" further information Video Reports press conference (German language only) town Freising Münchner Merkur (Freisinger Tagblatt) from 6. March, 2020 - as tif-file Süddeutsche Zeitung from 4. March, 2020 (from 5.… [read more]

The new image brochure of the TUM School of Life Sciences „Working for One Health“ is online. Under the section “Making plants fit for stressful times” the research conducted in the BayKlimaFit project network is introduced besides others. [read more]

Plant signaling, Physiology and Breeding Perspectives October 10, 2019 TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany We kindly invite you to attend the TAST2019 Symposium, part of the Plant Sciences Symposia Series. In times of climate change, the frequency of extreme weather… [read more]

Integrating quantitative and molecular genetics to develop new breeding methods in maize and sorghum October 7 – 9, 2019 TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany We are pleased to invite you to attend the XXIVth EUCARPIA Maize and Sorghum Conference! Research and development… [read more]

Lecturers: Bruce Walsh,University of Arizona and Guilherme Rosa, University of Wisconsin-Madison Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany June 25 – July 2, 2019 The TUM Chair of Plant Breeding will organize a Summer School on „Selection and Breeding” from June 25 to July 2, 2019 with Bruce Walsh of the… [read more]

Integrating quantitative and molecular genetics to develop new breeding methods in maize and sorghum October 7 – 9, 2019 TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany more information [read more]

On February 25, 2019 the final event of the project network BayKlimaFit will be held at the Munich Residence. (German language only) Informationen and registration [read more]

December 3 – 7, 2018 Campus of the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany Instructors: Prof. Rohan Fernando, Iowa State University and Dr. Christian Stricker, agn Genetics  The workshop will provide an introduction to the programming language Julia and its use in genomic… [read more]

Prof. Chris-Carolin Schön received the "Bayerischer Verdienstorden" for her merits to the state of Bavaria. The "Bayerischer Verdienstorden" has been presented in a ceremony by the Bavarian Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder on 27th of June 2018. Pressemitteilung der Bayerischen Staatsregierung TUM… [read more]

Landshuter Zeitung from 24. März 2018, report from Katharina Aurich after interviewing Prof. Schön, "Das Beste aus zwei Welten" (pdf - in German language only) [read more]

Radio Bayern 2, broadcast Notizbuch from 15.03.2018 about the development of plants for the future; report by Tobias Chmura and interviews with Dr. Eva Bauer, Stefan Schwertfirm and the plant breeder company Breun (German language only) Report [read more]

At the German Plant Breeding Conference 2018 Armin Hölker was honored with the 2. prize for his poster presentation with the title "Valorizing allelic diversity for early development and cold tolerance through genome-wide association mapping and genomic prediction in libraries of DH lines from maize… [read more]

Link: https://www.freising.wzw.tum.de/en/system-ordner/nachricht-detail/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4&cHash=c0a0b82e862e60cb7f1fdfcd971bd270 Link to a news article (Münchner Merkur 07.02.2018) covering Prof. Schön's presentation (in German language) … [read more]

The Johannes B. Ortner Foundation prize for yound researchers and academics was awarded to Sandra Unterseer for her PhD thesis " Identification of genes under differential selective pressure in temperate maize". [read more]

Münchner Merkur October 14, 2017 (Journal J5, Welt und Wissen): "Mais trotzt Hitze, Kälte, Trockenheit", article from Christian Rauch after interviewing Prof. Schön and Dr. Bauer (in German language only) image-file [read more]

News coverage MünchenTV on 9. Oktober 2017 (German language only) [read more]

Dr. Christina Lehermeier (Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenzüchtung am Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan der TUM, Freising) and Prof. Dr. Gustavo de los Campos (Michigan State University, East Lansing / USA) are honored with the "Wissenschaftspreis Weihenstephan der Stadt Freising 2017" for new statistical… [read more]

The Plant Breeding group made a significant contribution to a whole-genome draft sequence of rye. The new genomic resources are a breakthrough for comparative genomics in cereals and genome-based breeding for crop improvement. Full text of press release Publication: Bauer et al, The Plant Journal… [read more]

Within the BayKlimaFit subproject "Improving cold tolerance of maize" the first reference of a European Flint maize line was generated. Publication: Unterseer, Seidel et al, bioRxiv (2017) doi.org/10.1101/103747 [read more]

Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany Lecturer: Prof. Bruce Walsh, University of Arizona The TUM Spring School 2017 will provide an introduction to selection theory and breeding methodology relevant for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in animal and plant breeding. The TUM Spring School will be… [read more]

Während der Mitgliederversammlung der Max Schönleutner Gesellschaft Weihenstephan e.V. wurde im Juni 2016 Prof. Schön mit der Max Schönleutner Medaille ausgezeichnet. Weitere Informationen unter http://www.msgw.de/ [read more]

Um sich den  Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu stellen, wird vom Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz der Projektverbund „BayKlimaFit - Strategien zur Anpassung von Kulturpflanzen an den Klimawandel“ finanziert. Der Projektverbund soll wichtige Erkenntnisse für die Anpassung… [read more]

Campus of the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany The German Plant Breeding Society (GPZ) will organize an international meeting on selection theory and breeding methodology in March 2017. The primary aim will be to bring together researchers from the public and private… [read more]

Mitglieder des BMBF Forschungsverbundes "Die Sprache der Biofakte" besuchten den Lehrstuhl und erhielten "Spannende Einblicke in die Pflanzenzüchtung". Mitteilung des Biofakte-Verbundes zum Besuch in Weihenstephan [read more]

Im Rahmen des Corn Breeding Research Meetings 2016 in Jacksonville/Florida erhielt Manfred Mayer den Larry Darrah Preis für die beste Präsentation in der Session der PhD Studenten. Er stellte in seinem Vortrag seine Forschungsarbeiten über populationsgentische Analysen in 35 europäischen… [read more]

Auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Pflanzenzüchtung (GPZ) e.V. in Bonn wurde Christina Lehermeier mit dem 1. Preis für das beste Poster geehrt. Der Titel ihres prämierten Posters lautete: "Genome-based prediction of testcross performance with different testers in hybrid rye breeding". [read more]

Auf der Mitgliederversammlung der DFG in Bochum wurde Prof. Chris-Carolin Schön in den Senat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gewählt und vertritt in diesem zentralen wissenschaftlichen Gremium der DFG nun die Agrarwissenschaften. Zur DFG Pressemittteilung [read more]

Das Synbreed-Cluster hat eine führende Rolle in der genombasierten Züchtungsforschung eingenommen! Ein Artikel im VDL-Journal zum Schwerpunkt: Pflanzenzüchtung in Deutschland. Zum vollständigen Bericht [read more]

Dank des Synbreed-Projektes wurden revolutionäre Erfolge in der Züchtungsforschung erzielt. Zur vollständigen Pressemitteilung [read more]

Das Deutsche Maiskomitee e.V. hat Felicitas Dittrich für Ihre Masterarbeit „Identifikation trockentoleranter Linien einer Mais-Introgressionsbibliothek basierend auf sekundären Phänotypisierungsmerkmalen" den mit 750 EUR dotierten Förderpreis 2014 verliehen. [read more]

Die DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft) hat im Rahmen ihrer Feldtage am 17. Juni 2014 in Bernburg-Strenzfeld (Sachsen-Anhalt) die Wilhelm-Rimpau-Preise für das Jahr 2014 verliehen. Damit hat die DLG nunmehr bereits zum achten Mal drei innovative und praxisnahe Diplom- bzw. Masterarbeiten in… [read more]

Die diesjährige Verleihung des Mansfeld-Preises ist ein besonderes Ereignis, denn er wird in diesem Jahr zum 10. Mal für die beste studentische Abschlussarbeit auf dem Gebiet der pflanzengenetischen Ressourcen vergeben. In ihrer Masterarbeit hat sich die diesjährige Preisträgerin, Ulrike Rudolph,… [read more]

Am Tag der Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften 2012 erhält Dr. Grit Haseneyer für ihre Forschungsarbeit »Charakterisierung und Nutzung natürlich vorkommender Biodiversität in der Pflanzenzüchtung« den Dr. Heinrich-Baur-Förderpreis für junge Wissenschaftler. [read more]

Im Jahr 2011 wird Yongle Li, Doktorand am Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenzüchtung, von der chinesischen Regierung mit diesem Preis ausgezeichnet. [read more]

Der mit 1.500 EUR dotierte zweite Preis geht an Sebastian Gresset aus Freising-Weihenstephan für seine Diplomarbeit zum Thema „Charakterisierung von pflanzenbaulichen Anpassungsstrategien gegenüber verminderter Wasserversorgung bei Winterweizen“ (Characterisation of adaptive traits for water limited… [read more]