Contact
Eva Johansson, Professor
Department of Plant Breeding
eva.johansson@slu.se, 040-415 562
Current and completed projects
Last changed: 15 November 2024
Current projects
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Project - Accelerated and cost-efficient development of apple varieties . Photo: Olle Wennberg
1/15
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Project - Breeding of starchy potatoes – improved quality for a more sustainable use of resources. Photo Folke Sitbon.
2/15
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Project - Climate-resistant wheat. Photo Ramune Kuktaite.
3/15
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Project - Developing automated phenotyping methods for breeding wheat and sugar beet. Photo: Aakash Chawade
4/15
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Project - Faba bean for future food and feed. Photo: Åsa Grimberg
5/15
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Project - Genomic selection in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.). Photo Desirée Börjesdotter.
6/15
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Project - HeRo - Healthy Roots: Development of tools for the selection of robust cultivars in Swedish plant breeding, with focus on the root system. Photo: Ida Karlsson.
7/15
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Project - Improving the quality of rapeseed cakes for high-quality feed and food. Photo: Li -Hua Zhu
8/15
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Project - New and effective methods to breed timothy grass. Photo Pär Ingvarsson.
9/15
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Project: Pea – the key for future green protein. Foto: Cecilia Hammenhag
10/15
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Project - Plant breeding for optimised interactions between crops and microorganisms. Photo: Magnus Karlsson.
11/15
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Project - Products based on protein-rich crops: needs and opportunities. Photo Helena Persson Hovmalm.
12/15
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Project - Resistance breeding for healthy crops.Photo Magnus Karlsson.
13/15
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Project - Turnip-rape – a flexible and hardy oil crop for Sweden. Photo Christer Persson.
14/15
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Projekt - Yin-yang baserade markörer för förädling av spannmål. Foto: Mårten Svensson.
15/15
Better barley
Breeding of starchy potatoes – improved quality for a more sustainable use of resources
Developing automated phenotyping methods for breeding wheat and sugar beet
Genomic selection in red clover
HeRo - Healthy Roots: Development of tools for the selection of robust cultivars in Swedish plant breeding, with focus on the root system
Improving the quality of rapeseed cakes for high-quality feed and food
New and effective methods to breed timothy grass
Pea – the key for future green protein
Resilient potato
Information about our new project Resilient potato will be available here shortly.
Plant breeding for optimised interactions between crops and microorganisms to enhance disease management and production with reduced agrochemical use
Resistance breeding for healthy crops
Towards winter wheat and oat cultivars with low cadmium uptake
Completed projects
Apples for the future
"Apples for the future" contains the following three subprojects:
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Accelerated and cost-efficient development of apple varieties.
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Ownership and finances for breeding of apple varieties.
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Hardy apple varieties for juice and cider.