Head of the professorship

Prof. Dr. Nazgol Emrani

Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 8 - Room 209

 

Phone: +49(0)381- 498 - 3080
Fax: +49 (0)381- 498 - 3082

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Academic Roles and Professional Memberships

  • The Society for Plant Breeding (GPZ)
  • European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA)
  • German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)
  • Executive Editor des Journals Science of Food and Agriculture (JSFA)

Current Third-Party Funded Projects

  • Quinoa for Future Diversified Agricultural Systems (Q4F), Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), Project Number: 031B1546C, Project Duration: 15.05.2025 – 14.05.2029.
  • Genetic and Metabolic Determinants of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses in Quinoa, Research Unit 5640 – Physiological and Evolutionary Adaptation of Plants to Co-occurring Abiotic and Biotic Challenges (PlantCoChallenge), German Research Foundation (DFG), Project Number: 515385982, EM251-2/1, Project Duration: October 2024 – September 2028.
  • Breeding Quinoa for Cultivation in Germany, Innovation Promotion Program of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), Project Number: 281D117A21, Project Duration: March 2023 – May 2026.

Selected publications

  • Dhiman, A. S., Emrani, N., Holtgrewe-Stukenbrock, E., Varrelmann, M., & Jung, C. (2025). Uncovering Genes Essential in Domestication and Breeding of Sugar Beet. The Crop Journal 13: 1224-1233.
  • Dhiman, A. S., Taliadoros, D., Stukenbrock, E. H., McGrath, J. M., Emrani, N., & Jung, C. (2025). Signatures in domesticated beet genomes pointing at genes under selection in a sucrose-storing root crop. BMC biology, 23(1), 299.
  • Maldonado‐Taipe, N., Rey, E., Tester, M., Jung, C., & Emrani, N. (2024). Leaf and shoot apical meristem transcriptomes of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) in response to photoperiod and plant development. Plant, Cell & Environment, 47, 2027–2043. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14864
  • Patiranage D. S. R., Rey E., Emrani N., Wellman G., Schmid K., Schmöckel S. M., Tester M., and Jung C. (2022) Genome-wide association study in quinoa reveals selection pattern typical for crops with a short breeding history eLife 11:e66873. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66873
  • Maldonado-Taipe N, Barbier F, Schmid K, Jung C and Emrani N (2022) High-Density Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Controlling Agronomically Important Traits in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.). Front. Plant Sci. 13:916067. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.916067