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Head, Centre for Plant Genetics, Breeding and Evaluation
Tel: +44 (0)1223 342349
Fax: +44 1223 277602
Email: Prof Andy Greenland
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE, UK

I  lead the Centre which has around 60 staff based in Cambridge and at the regional trialing sites. My associate Heads of Centre are Donal O’Sullivan  for plant genetics and Simon Kerr  for crop evaluation.

I am a plant biotechnologist with 20+ years’ experience in academic and commercial research. I joined NIAB from Syngenta in December 2005.

Pre-breeding programme
I am also responsible for the pre-breeding team at NIAB. This is a recently established venture that will provide a product conferring capability available to all UK researchers and end-users. It is a unique platform for delivery of novel traits and associated marker technologies in wheat, oilseed rape, pulses and non-food crop applications. At its heart is a programme that will validate traits and markers in pre-competitive, UK adapted germplasm that can be accessed by commercial breeders and end-users.

Pre-breeding has been established using a £1.25 million investment from the NIAB Trust which provides start-up infrastructure and staff. In addition, Trust funding will be used be used to start a systematic assessment of CIMMYT synthetic hexaploid wheats (SHWs) as sources of useful traits for UK wheat improvement.

Access to the resources of the pre-breeding programme is open to all researchers on a cost recovery basis. Enquiries should be directed to me using the contact details above.

Recent Publications
Rauscher, G. M., Smart C. D., Simko, I., Bonierbale, M., Mayton, H., Greenland, A., Fry, W. E. (2006) Characterization and mapping of RPi-ber, a novel potato late blight resistance gene from Solanum berthaultii. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 112, 674-687

Wagner, D, Wellmer, F., Dilks, K., William, D., Smith, M.R., Kumar, P. P., Riechmann, J. L., Greenland, A. J., Meyerowitz, E. M. (2004) Floral induction in tissue culture: a system for the analysis of LEAFY-dependent gene regulation. Plant J., 39, 273-282

Costa, L. M., Gutierrez-Marcos, J. F., Brutnell, T. P., Greenland, A. J., Dickinson, H. G. (2003) The globby-1 (glo-1) mutation disrupts nuclear and cell division in the developing maize seed causing alterations in endosperm cell fate and tissue differentiation. Development, 130, 5009-5017

Yun, B-Y.,  Atkinson, H. A., Gaborit, C., Greenland A. J., Read, N. D., Loake, G. J. (2003) Loss of actin cytoskeletal function and EDS1 activity, in combination, severely compromises non-host resistance in Arabidopsis against wheat powdery mildew. Plant J., 34, 768-777

Lehmann, P., Walsh, J.A., Jenner, C. E., Greenland, A.J., Kozubek, E. (2003) Coat protein-mediated resistance to turnip mosaic virus in oilseed rape (Brassica napus var. oleifera). Mol. Breeding, 11, 83-94