A significant proportion of
the global crop harvest is lost to diseases each year. A better understanding
of the genetic and molecular components that control disease resistance in crop
plants is thus of paramount importance to breed the cultivars capable of
feeding 9-10 billion people by 2050.The isolation of disease
resistance genes from the important cereal crop plants wheat and barley is very
challenging because these two crop species have very large and complex genomes.
Our group has developed novel and rapid gene cloning approaches that combine
the latest developments in genomics, molecular biology and bioinformatics.
This internship offers the
possibility to learn these novel approaches and to be actively involved in a
hands-on gene cloning project.