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Part of the book series: Handbook of Plant Breeding (HBPB, volume 5)
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They are the acting (BB), past (UKP) and past-past (FV) chairman of the section ‘Fodder Crops and Amenity Grass Breeding’ of EUCARPIA, the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding.
Beat Boller is a clover and grass breeder at Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon in Zürich, a research station of the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs. Between 1989 and 2009, he created and released 60 registered cultivars of 11 species, including red and white clover, ryegrasses, fescues, and cocksfoot, which are listed in many European countries. He also has wide experience in genetic resources of forages, having acted as chairman of the Forages Working Group of ECPGR between 2002 and 2007. Since 2008, he is President designate of EUCARPIA.
Ulrich K. Posselt is a research plant breeder and was head of the forage research group at the State Plant Breeding Institute of the University of Hohenheim until his retirement in 2008. His research activities were on the ryegrasses and mainly devoted to breeding methodology, disease resistance, application of biotechnological techniques and molecular tools. This lead to more than 50 scientific publications in reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He was involved in teaching forage crop breeding and training of Ph.D. and MS students.
Fabio Veronesi is professor of plant biotechnologies and chair of the MS degree in human feeding and nutrition sciences at University of Perugia., where he is also in charge of the PhD program in botany and agroenvironmental, animal and food biotechnologies. His research activities have been mainly devoted to forage plant breeding (with special emphasis for alfalfa), meiotic mutations, transformation technologies applied to alfalfa, germplasm collection, conservation and evaluation, environmental and human impacts of genetically engineered plants. This lead to more than 70 technical papers in reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses
Editors: Beat Boller, Ulrich K. Posselt, Fabio Veronesi
Series Title: Handbook of Plant Breeding
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0760-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0759-2Published: 17 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2533-5Published: 25 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0760-8Published: 14 January 2010
Series ISSN: 2363-8478
Series E-ISSN: 2363-8486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 524
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Physiology, Agriculture