KWS GroupAssistant Spring Wheat & Winter Barley Breeder
May. 2010 - Feb. 2015Thriplow, England, United KingdomMy role is to learn from and assist the head spring wheat breeder and the head winter barley breeder.
The spring wheat program is targetted at multiple markets across countries, looking for both high yielding and high quality lines.
The winter barley program is targetted at the 2 row winter barley looking at feed and malting types.
I am involved in the preparation of seed, field layout, drilling of seed, field selection (agronomics and phenotyping), quality testing, cross selection and the making of new crosses. I have also been given the resposibility of running and managing some of these tasks.
I am also involved in collaborative R&D projects, and try to keep my skills in genetics (and associated topics) and phenotying up-to-date.