Time: 9:00 a.m., November 29, 2018

Venue: 理科楼A201

Speaker: Dr. Simon Griffiths, John Innes Centre, UK

Topic: Finding and deploying new and useful genetic variation for UK wheat breeding

Speaker Profiles:

Dr. Simon Griffiths, is the project leader of crop genetics in John Innes Centre in the UK. He studies height and flowering time in bread wheat and the genes which control the interaction between these traits to influence yield. Simon’s research undertakes large scale screening of wheat lines, using mapping techniques to identify QTL for traits of interest. Also, Simon uses field phenomics platforms to measure traits in real time under agricultural conditions and identifies markers targeted to specific environments. These are used to inform breeders of traits of interest alongside provision of pre-breeding germplasm.

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