Stillingstittel:
PhD scholarship in plant science - ref.no. 16/03955

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

 

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

 

Further information about NMBU is available on www.nmbu.no

Jobbnorge ID: 128343

The Department of Plant Sciences (IPV) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3 year Ph.D-position related to plant physiology and genetics.

 

IPV has approximately 80 employees, including permanent and temporary scientific positions, PhD students, post doctors, technicians and administrative positions.

 

The Department has six sections: Agroecology, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Plant Protection, Plant Biology and - Biotechnology, Food Crops, and Environmental Horticulture.

 

Plant research at IPV covers a wide range of fields within molecular biology, genetics, genomics, plant physiology, plant breeding, agronomy, horticulture, landscape restoration and arboriculture.

 

 

Research project

The main aim of the PhD project is to elucidate the genetic, physiological and environmental control of winter survival of red clover in a climate change perspective. Red clover is an important perennial species in forage production. It can largely replace nitrogen fertilization through its symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and contributes to high yields of a protein-rich high-quality forage. However, after a few years it tends to die out during the winter and improved winter survival is therefore an important breeding goal. Plant winter survival is a complex trait involving multiple mechanisms, which are strongly influenced by climatic conditions. Especially, temperature and light conditions in late autumn and early spring are of great importance in cold acclimation and deacclimation processes. With climate change, the thermal growing season will extend in both ends, giving rise to new light-temperature combinations that are likely to affect winter survival.

 

The PhD project will be financed by NMBU. The PhD candidate will work in close collaboration with researchers and technicians at NMBU and the Nordic Gene Bank. Visits to research institutions outside NMBU, including abroad, must be expected.

 

 

Main tasks

A broad range of red clover populations will be phenotyped for freezing tolerance and genotyped at population level. A limited number of populations will be used to obtain in-depth knowledge about relationships between environmental conditions (light and temperature), growth patterns and freezing tolerance/winter survival, possibly enabling identification of functional traits and phenotypic plasticity associated with winter survival. Finally, genotyping-by-sequencing data from selected subpopulations will be utilized to identify molecular markers and genomic regions controlling freezing tolerance.

In collaboration with the supervisors, the successful candidate is expected to submit an education and research plan during the first months after appointment with the aim to complete a PhD degree wit

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige unive

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Universitetstunet 3 1430 ÅS

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Hvordan søke: Annet - se fritekst

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år