Ida Lager is a researcher at the Department of Plant Breeding, SLU. She is one of the speakers at the upcoming PlantLink day. What is currently on top of your research agenda? We are working on understanding what determines the…
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Tina D’Hertefeldt at the Unit of Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Lund University. Tina has been the assistant director for PlantLink since 2016, and steps down at the end of this month. What is currently on top of your research agenda?…
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Welcome Alf Ceplitis, Group Manager Population Improvement at Lantmännen and new steering committee member at PlantLink. -What is currently on top of your research agenda? I’m leading a group that works on the development and implementation of genomic-prediction based breeding…
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What is currently on top of your research agenda? Biochemical and molecular characterisation of oat lines selected from a mutagenized population with elevated protein, betaglucan, arabinoxylan levels, increased Fusarium tolerance and lower lipase levels. I am also involved in a…
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-What is currently on top of your research agenda? I’m interested in evolutionary ecology and currently, my three main projects are in one way or another centered around plant-insect interactions in Spodoptera moths. In one project, I study phenotypic plasticity…
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This month’s PlantLink Researcher in the Spotlight is Allan Rasmusson, Professor at Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Lund University. -What is currently on top of your research agenda? There is very much going on! We are right now doing…
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What is currently on top of your research agenda? My main focus is research and development of potato, with the aim of introducing novel traits improving the quality based on various aspects. Traits like tailored starch qualities for food and…
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What is currently on top of your research agenda? With my team I am interested in semiochemicals that affect the behaviour of insects. Behaviourally active microbial volatiles is a theme of my research since several years. Especially the possibility of…
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