PLANT BREEDING publishes full-length original manuscripts and review articles on all aspects of plant improvement, breeding methodologies, and genetics to include qualitative and quantitative inheritance and genomics of major crop species. PLANT BREEDING provides readers with cutting-edge information on use of molecular techniques and genomics as they relate to improving gain from selection. Since its subject matter embraces all aspects of crop improvement, its content is sought after by both industry and academia.

Fields of interest: Genetics of cultivated plants as well as research in practical plant breeding.

Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Jens Léon
Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften
und Ressourcenschutz INRES
Universität Bonn
Katzenburgweg 5
53115 Bonn, Germany
Tel.: +49 228-73-2877
Fax: +49 228-73-2045
e-mail: j.leon@uni-bonn.de

Dir. u. Prof. PD Dr. Frank Ordon
Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI)
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance
Erwin-Baur-Str. 27
06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 3946 47601
Fax: +49 3946 47600
frank.ordon@julius-kuehn.de
www.jki.bund.de

Subject Editors
S. Abbo
Field Crops and Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem — Israel
abbo@agri.huji.ac.il
Cereals, legumes — crop evolution, domestication, cytogenetics, genetic resources

S. N. Ahn
Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon — Republic of Korea
ahnsn@cnu.ac.kr
Rice breeding, rice genetics, marker assisted selection, QTL-mapping

F. Altpeter
Laboratory of Molecular Plant Physiology, Agronomy Department, University of Florida — USA
altpeter@ufl.edu
Grasses, cereals - biotechnology, in vitro culture, genetic transformation, abiotic stress, quality

H. Buerstmayr
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), Institute for Biotechnology in Plant Production — AUSTRIA
hermann.buerstmayr@boku.ac.at
Small grain cereals - breeding, molecular breeding, QTL mapping, disease resistance

A.-M. Chevre
Station d’Amélioration des Plantes, INRA Le Rheu — France
chevre@rennes.inra.fr
Oilseed rape, crucifers — molecular markers, cytogenetics, interspecific hybridization, introgression

Th. Debener
Molekulare Pflanzenzüchtung, Institut für Pflanzengenetik, Universität Hannover — Germany
debener@genetik.uni-hannover.de
Horticultural crops, ornamentals — molecular markers, genome techniques
H. Flachowsky
Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI), Dresden — Germany
henryk.flachowsky@julius-kuehn.de
Fruits, Horticultural Crops
W. Friedt
Institut für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzüchtung, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen — Germany
Wolfgang.friedt@agrar.uni-giessen.de
Barley, oilcrops — breeding, quality, resistance, in vitro techniques

K. Gill
Washington State University, Crop and Soil Sciences, Pullman, Washington — USA
ksgill@wsu.edu
Genetics — breeding, biotic and abiotic stress

L. Hartl
Institut für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzüchtung, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Freising — Germany
lorenz.hartl@lfl.bayern.de
Wheat, barley — molecular markers, quality breeding

M. Havey
Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison— USA
mjhavey@facstaff.wisc.edu
Alliums, Cucurbits, Solanums - genetics, evolution, gene tagging, disease resistance, organellar genetics, cytoplasmic male sterility

R. Hovav
Department of Agronomy and Natural Resources, ARO-Volcani Center , Bet Dagan — Israel
ranh@volcani.agri.gov.il
Peanut, Cotton and Oil Crops

E. Igartua
CSIC, Estacion Experimental de Aula Dei, Zaragoza — Spain
igartua@eead.csic.es
Barley, stress tolerance, phytogenetic resources, markers

J. Jenkins
USDA , ARS, Mississippi State, Mississippi — USA
Johnie.Jenkins@ARS.USDA.GOV
Cotton - breeding, plant resistance

C. Jung
Institut für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzüchtung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel — Germany
c.jung@plantbreeding.uni-kiel.de
Sugar beet — molecular markers, disease resistance cytogenetics

J. Léon
Inst. of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University Bonn — Germany
j.leon@uni-bonn.de
Barley —breeding methodologies, yield physiology

Z.-K. Li
National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing — China
lizhk@caas.net.cn
Rice — molecular breeding, molecular markers, germplasm identification, gene cloning, molecular basis of heterosis

W. Link
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Department of Crop Sciences, Goettingen — Germany
wlink@gwdg.de
Grain legumes, breeding research

Th. Lübberstedt
Agronomy Department, Iowa State University, Ames — USA
thomasl@iastate.edu
Maize — forage grasses, applied genomics, forage quality, resistance

A. S. Mason
IFZ Research Centre for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition Justus Liebig University Giessen — Germany
annaliese.mason@agrar.uni-giessen.de
Polyploidy, interspecific hybridisation and crop improvement

R. A. McIntosh
Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty — Australia
bobm@camden.usyd.edu.au
Wheat, cereals — cytogenetics, disease resistance

T. Miedaner
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart — Germany
miedaner@uni-hohemheim.de
Fusarium head blight, hybrid breeding, CMS

J. B. Morris
Geneticist, Curator, USDA, ARS Griffin — USA
Brad.Morris@ARS.USDA.GOV
Legumes, soybean - plant genetic resources, secondary metabolites, plant pathology

F. Ordon
Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance, Quedlinburg — Germany
frank.ordon@jki.bund.de
Barley — genetic resources, resistance breeding, molecular markers, biotechnology

H.-P. Piepho
University of Hohenheim, Department of Crop Production and Grassland Research, Stuttgart — Germany
piepho@uni-hohenheim.de
Genotype-by-environment interaction, biometrics, biostatistics

K. Pillen
Plant-Based Bioeconomy, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg — Germany;
klaus.pillen@landw.uni-halle.de
Barley and wheat, molecular plant breeding, genomics and genetics, DNA marker applications, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, advanced backcross QTL mapping, introgression lines (ILs), genom-wide association mapping (GWAS), nested association mapping (NAM)

M. Prasad
National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi - India
manoj_prasad@nipgr.res.in
Millet, cereals — structural and functional genomics, plant-pathogen interaction, abiotic stress

O. A. Rognli
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas — Norway
odd-arne.rognli@umb.no
Fodder crops — breeding methods, genotype–environment interaction, quantitative genetics

Y. Saranga
Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem — Israel
shuki.saranga@mail.huji.ac.il
Wheat, cotton — abiotic stress, drought, molecular breeding, QTL-mapping, yield physiology

R. Singh
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana — USA
ramsingh@illinois.edu
Plant cytogenetics, cell and tissue culture, genetic resources, wide hybridization

R. Snowdon
Department of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University, Giessen — Germany
Rod.Snowdon@agrar.uni-giessen.de
Rapeseed, sorghum-breeding, genetics

R. Tuberosa
Plant Breeding; Department of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technology, University of Bologna — Italy
roberto.tuberosa@unibo.it
Maize — molecular breeding, molecular markers, abiotic stress, drought

R. K. Varshney
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Greater Hyderabad — India
r.k.varshney@cgiar.org
Legumes - genetics and genomics, molecular breeding, microsatellite markers, abiotic stress, gene discovery

P. Virk
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), PBGB College, Los Baños, Laguna 4031 — Philippines
p.virk@cgiar.org
Plant Breeding - Molecular marker application & MAS, QTL mapping, Quantitative genetics of agronomic traits

P. Wehling
Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute of Agricultural Crops, Groß Lüsewitz — Germany
peter.wehling@julius-kuehn.de
Cereals, potatoes, Brassica — breeding methods, disease resistance, reproduction biology, molecular markers


P. Xu
College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang — China
peixu@cjlu.edu.cn
Legumes, vegetables - molecular genetics, unified phenomic-genetic mapping, quality & safety traits, water relations

M. Yano
Applied Genomics Laboratory, Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki — Japan
myano@nias.affrc.go.jp
Rice — genetics, QTL mapping, map-based cloning, marker-assisted selection