Name: Quentin Burandt
Email: quentin.burandt@uni-goettingen.de

Start of project: June 2025
Presumed end of project: October 2028

Quinoa breeding, especially in Europe, is in its infancy.
The recently started project 'Q4F' (Quinoa For Future Diversified Crop Systems) aims to enable quinoa breeding in Germany by targeting traits that have not been adequately addressed so far.
In Göttingen, the focus is on insect resistance. Specifically, the aim is to analyze the extent to which genetic variation for EBCs can be used to breed insect-resistant quinoa cultivars (EBCs are the epidermal bladder cells of quinoa, i.e. trichomes on leaves and stems).

The project is partly supervised in the Division of Plant Breeding Methodology (currently administered by apl. Dr. Wolfgang Link) and partly in the Division of Agricultural Entomology by Prof. Dr. Michal Rostás

Financial basis of the Ph.D. project: BMFTR
Budget of the PhD project was acquired by Michael Rostás