Due to their ability to re-grow season after season, perennial grasses have a wide spectrum of applications:
as ground covers, animal feed, biomass crops...Breeding efforts in these species were mainly focused on
the development of improved populations, as most of the grasses are out-crossing and highly polyploid.
Our research concentrates mainly on two aspects of perennial grasses:
(1) to analyze self-incompatibility (SI) and self-fertility(SF) as well as pollen sterility as prerequisites for the development of a hybrid breeding system in perennial grasses, and
(2) to assess winter hardiness and frost tolerance in perennial grasses