Society for Plant Breeding
| The Society for Plant Breeding eV (GPZ) |
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| purpose | Society for Plant Breeding |
| Chair: | Andreas Graner |
| Establishment date: | 1991 |
| Number of members: | 800 |
| Seat : | Goettingen |
| Website: | www.gpz-online.de |
The Society for Plant Breeding eV (GPZ) is the scientific specialist society for the breeding improvement of useful plants and research into the genetic basis of plant breeding .
Foundation and tasks
The GPZ was founded in 1991 in Göttingen through the merger of the Plant Breeding Working Group of the Society for Crop Science of the Federal Republic of Germany and the specialist society in the former GDR. In 2019 the GPZ had more than 800 full members and a number of supporting members.
Every two years the GPZ organizes a scientific congress on a current plant breeding topic in different locations in connection with a general meeting. In the intervening years, the "Quedlinburg Plant Breeding Days" take place, at which young scientists present the results of their dissertations, framed by further scientific lectures.
As part of this event, the GPZ awards the Kurt von Rümker Prize for the best lecture by a young scientist in the field of plant breeding.
Working groups
There are 20 working groups within the GPZ that hold conferences and workshops at regular intervals. These are devoted to methodical and plant-specific questions from different areas from biometrics to genome analysis and from resistance breeding to the history of plant breeding.
Affiliated associations (selection)
- Federal Association of German Plant Breeders (BDP)
- Umbrella association of scientific societies for agricultural, forestry, nutrition, veterinary and environmental research eV (DAF)
- European Society for Breeding Research (EUCARPIA)
- Society for Genetics
- Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO)
- Association for Applied Botany eV (VAB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GPZ network
- ↑ gpz-online.de , accessed on December 11, 2019