Christian Jung (geneticist)
Christian Jung (born 17 September 1956, Northeim, Lower Saxony, is a plant geneticist and molecular biologist in the Plant Breeding Institute[1] of Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel.[2]
Career[edit]
After internships in agricultural companies in Germany and Canada Jung studied at Göttingen University with Hans Günter Schlegel, and in 1981 obtained a diploma on the basis of the "Detection of nitrogen fixation in two strains of the hydrogen bacterium Alcaligenes latus".[2] He studied at the Institute for Plant Production and Plant Breeding of the same university, where he received his doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on the "Intrinsic performance and interactions of rye and wheat genomes in triticale" supervised by Gerhard Röbbelen.[2]
Later Jung had positions at the University of Hannover[2] and the University of Munich[2] before becoming Professor and Director at the Plant Breeding Institute of Kiel University.[2]
Research[edit]
Jung's principal interest is in molecular breeding and the development of pest-resistant crops. In that respect he is known for cloning a resistance gene against nematodes in beets.[3] Other notable work includes cloning the genome of quinoa,[4] and the importance of controlling the time of flowering time in plant breeding.[5][6]
Awards[edit]
In 2005 Jung received the Leibniz Prize[7] awarded by the German Research Foundation.
References[edit]
- ^ "Plant Breeding Institute".
- ^ a b c d e f "Prof. Dr. Christian Jung".
- ^ Cai, Daguang; Kleine, Michael; Kifle, Sirak; Harloff, Hans-Joachim; Sandal, Niels N.; Marcker, Kjeld A.; Klein-Lankhorst, René M.; Salentijn, Elma M. J.; Lange, Wouter; Stiekema, Willem J.; Wyss, Urs; Grundler, Florian M. W.; Jung, Christian (1997). "Positional cloning of a gene for nematode resistance in sugar beet". Science. 275 (5301): 832–834. doi:10.1126/science.275.5301.832.
- ^ Jarvis, David E.; Ho, Yung Shwen; Lightfoot, Damien J.; Schmöckel, Sandra M.; Li, Bo; Borm, Theo J.A.; Ohyanagi, Hajime; Mineta, Katsuhiko; Michell, Craig T.; Saber, Noha; Kharbatia, Najeh M.; Rupper, Ryan R.; Sharp, Aaron R.; Dally, Nadine; Boughton, Berin A.; Woo, Yong H.; Gao, Ge; Schijlen, Elio G. W. M.; Guo, Xiujie; Momin, Afaque A.; Negrão, Sónia; Al-Babili, Salim; Gehring, Christoph; Roessner, Ute; Jung, Christian; Murphy, Kevin; Arold, Stefan T.; Gojobori, Takashi; van der Linden, C. Gerard; Van Loo, Eibertus N.; Jellen, Eric N.; Maughan, Peter J; Tester, Tester (2017). "The genome of Chenopodium quinoa". Nature. 542 (7641): 307–312. doi:10.1038/nature21370.
- ^ Jung, Christian; Müller, Andreas E. (2009). "Flowering time control and applications in plant breeding". Trends Plant Sci. 14 (10): 563–573.
- ^ Blümel; Dally, Nadine; Jung, Christian (2015). "Flowering time regulation in crops—what did we learn from Arabidopsis?". Current Opinion biotechnol. 32: 121–129.
- ^ "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize".
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