Max Haupt

PhD Student

Crop Biodiversity and Breeding Informatics Group (350b)
Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics
University of Hohenheim
Fruwirthstr. 21
70599 Stuttgart, Germany

Phone: +49 711 459-24293
Email: max.haupt@uni-hohenheim.de

Research interests

• Population genetics
• Plant breeding and genetic resources of crops
• Landscape genomics

Research project

Within the scope of the SojaGenoPath project I'm mining soybean genebanks for potential abiotic adaptation useful for Central European soybean breeding. My research focuses on the selection of suitable accessions per se as well as on the molecular mechanisms and the genetic architecture of soybean environmental adaptation. I am using extensive datasets including genomic, phenotypic and environmental data for thousands of soybean accessions in order to retrieve beneficial variation for practical breeding purposes in a targeted fashion.

Publications

• Haupt M, Schmid K. Combining focused identification of germplasm and core collection strategies to identify genebank accessions for central European soybean breeding (2020) Plant Cell and Environment https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13761