Research Interests
- Resistance genetics in cereals and maize with special focus on Fusarium diseases and cereal rusts
- Diversity of pathogen populations
- Breeding research on population and hybrid rye
- Molecular plant breeding: QTL and association mapping, genomic selection
Curriculum Vitae
1988 - heute | Head of the working group rye & biotic stress, State Plant Breeding Institute | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Deutschland |
2005 | Appointment as adjunct professor | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Deutschland |
1998 | Habilitation in Plant Breeding | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Deutschland |
1987 - 1988 | Research associate, FSP Biotechnologie & Pflanzenzüchtung | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Deutschland |
1986 - 1987 | Research associate, Wheat breeding group | STRUBE Saatzucht, Söllingen, Deutschland |
1983 - 1986 | Promotion, Dr. sc. agr., Biologische Bundesanstalt, Institute for Resistance Genetics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Deutschland |
Teaching and Training activities/Research Projects
Teaching and Training Activities
He is involved in teaching the following courses:
Summer semester:
3501-452 | Resistance Breeding |
3501-452 | Breeding Methodology Demonstrations with Excursion |
7202-211 | Spezielle Pflanzenzüchtung |
7202-212 | Demonstrationsübungen zur Pflanzenzüchtung |
A043 | Kolloquium der Pflanzenzüchtung |
A046 | Kolloquium für MSc Kandidaten und Doktoranden |
Winter semester:
A046 | Kolloquium für MSc Kandidaten und Doktoranden |
A043 | Kolloquium der Pflanzenzüchtung |
Research Projects
- FusStalk – Genetic and molecular studies in European maize for resistance to Fusarium stalk rot
- RoggenPop – Improvement of population breeding in winter rye for organic farming by genomic selection
- Food security through science – High-tech for the orphan crop barley in Ethiopia
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Publications
Main Publications
- Miedaner, T., Eckhoff, W., Flath, K., Schmitt, A. K., Schulz, P., Schacht, J., Boeven, P., Akel, W., and Gruner, P. (2024). Mapping rust resistance in European winter wheat: many QTLs for yellow rust resistance, but only a few well characterized genes for stem rust resistance. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 137:215.
- Miedaner, T., and Garbelotto, M. (2024). Human-mediated migration of plants, their pathogens and parasites. Journal of Plant Pathology, 106, 301–325.
- Miedaner, T., Flamm, C., and Oberforster, M. (2024). The importance of Fusarium head blight resistance in the cereal breeding industry: case studies from Germany and Austria. Plant Breeding, 143, 44–58.
- Wilde, P., and Miedaner, T. (2021). Hybrid rye breeding. In: Rabanus-Wallace, M.T., Stein N. (Eds.). The Rye Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes, pp. 13–41. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
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