Prof. Dr. Franziska Wespel

Plant breeding, Breeding Novel Grain Crops

Address: R.105
Neuseser Street 1
91732 Merkendorf
Faculty: Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition

Teaching
Biotechnology in plant cultivation

Plant breeding

Digital applications in plant breeding

Field-based exercises
Memberships
GPZ e.V. (Chairman of the Oil and Protein Plants Working Group)

EUCARPIA

Forum for the Promotion of Organic Plant Breeding in Bavaria (FÖZ)
Final theses
2024: Pre-breeding analysis of the vegetative phase of chickpea genebank accessions by classical phenotyping and UAV-based imaging

2025: The symptom impact of Candidatus Arsenophonus Phytopathogenicus and Candidatus Phytoplasma solani on the potato plant and the detectability of the pathogens in the tubers

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
- Francesco Cosenza , Asis Shrestha , Delphine van Inghelandt , Federico A Casale , Po-Ya Wu , Marius Weisweiler , Jinquan Li , Franziska Wespel , Benjamin Stich
  
  Permissions: Open Access
  
  Permissions: Peer Reviewed
  
  Genetic mapping reveals new loci and alleles for flowering time and plant height using the double round-robin population of barley (2024) Journal of Experimental Botany erae010 . DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae010
  
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All Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Research projects

Duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2025

: Climate change
Genome-Wide-Epidemiological-Climatic-Analyses: a new tool for crop resistance to diseases in the face of climate change (GWECAs)
This interdisciplinary project aims to develop a new method for identifying new resistance genes in order to increase the resistance of crops and livestock to epidemics. …
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- Project lead (HSWT): Prof. Dr. Franziska Wespel

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