Professorship for Grapevine Breeding

A research focus of this professorship is in the field of applied grapevine breeding, in particular regarding the preservation of genetic diversity within traditional German varieties and its utilization for the development of new clones with better adaptation to demand in the wine industry. A substantial part of this work is maintenance breeding, the production of base and pre-base propagation material and the supply of German nurseries and growers with healthy and high-performing propagation material of scion and rootstock varieties. Another area of research is the evaluation of disease-tolerant variety candidates and maintenance breeding of existing Geisenheim varieties.