In this episode Markus Stetter, group leader at the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne and member of CEPLAS (Cluster of Excellence on Plant Science) takes us into the exciting history of Amaranth. Markus combines molecular and computational biology approaches to study the domestication of wild plants. Learn how wild plants became crops and how these crops spread around the globe. Furthermore get insights into CEPLAS, its research mission, focus area and education program.

Since 2019, Markus Stetter is a group leader at the Institute for Plant Sciences and member of CEPLAS (Cluster of Excellence on Plant Science). His group is interested in the domestication and evolution of crop plants. To study how wild plants became crops and how the crops spread around the globe the group combines molecular and computational biology approaches. Within BIPON Markus is interested in the conservation and utilisation of genetic diversity from wild plants and novel crops. Markus did his postdoctoral research in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California Davis, USA. Before that he was PhD student at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.

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