SLU Breeding Network
SLU Breeding Network meeting
SLU Breeding Network meeting "Breeding 360: Collaboration across disciplines" katja.fedrowitz@slu.se Join us for the SLU Breeding Network Meeting on May 6-7 in Ultuna to connect with colleagues,
High-yielding rice that greatly reduces methane emissions has been developed at SLU
Rice is a staple food for half the world's population, but its cultivation leads to significant emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. Now, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural
Call for internationalisation
The SLU Breeding Network is launching a call for internationalisation for researchers, postdocs and PhD students at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in animal or plant breeding.
A Helping Gene for Healthier Plants
Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) have discovered a new gene that controls plants' sensitivity to threats like fungi and drought. By removing this gene, plants
Internationalisation call SLU Breeding Network
The SLU Breeding Network is launching a call for internationalisation for researchers, postdocs and PhD students at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in animal or plant breeding.
Seed money for breeding
As part of the strategy to increase cross-faculty collaborations and to further strengthen breeding research at SLU, the SLU Breeding Network will financially support short-term innovative projects
Conference call SLU Breeding Network
The SLU Breeding Network announces a special call to support SLU researchers, technicians and students in attending conferences related to animal or plant breeding in 2024/ the first half of 2025.
Tinder for dairy cattle: Great benefits of DNA analysis
In today's dairy cattle breeding, it is possible to analyze the DNA of individuals and predict genomic breeding values. However, the possibilities of DNA analysis do not stop at genomic breeding
Symposium dedicated to millets
Symposium dedicated to millets malin.planting@slu.se The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2023 the International year of millets: "Millets are among the first plants to be domesticated
Registration Agri4D
On 26-28 September, the Agri4D 2023 conference will gather people dedicated to agriculture for development from across the world. The focus of this year’s conference is how we can shape sustainable
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Novel Methods for Resistance Breeding in Winter Wheat lotta.malmborg@slu.se Mustafa Zakieh, department of Plant Protection, defends the thesis "Novel Methods for Resistance Breeding in Winter Wheat
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Developing affordable high-throughput plant phenotyping methods for breeding of cereals and tuber crops lotta.malmborg@slu.se Fernanda Leiva, department of Plant Breeding, defends her thesis "