Prof Michael Abberton
Director of International Development and Leader of Genome Diversity and Plant Breeding
Contact
Email: mla@aber.ac.uk
Office: Gogerddan
Phone: 01970 823180
Research
- Germplasm improvement as a route to reducing the environmental footprint of grassland agriculture
- Legume breeding and genetics.
- White clover and red clover breeding programme, focusing on both economic and environmental sustainability
- Interspecific hybrids in Trifolium.
- Molecular markers including genome mapping and QTL analysis in white and red clover and marker assisted introgression.
- Translational genomics from model legumes
- Gene expression changes in response to abiotic stress.
- Development of yellow and blue lupins as a grain crop in the UK