As Research Director of the
Nottingham/BBSRC Wheat Research Centre at The University of Nottingham, UK, my
main research interest is focused on transferring genetic variation for
agronomically and scientifically important traits from wild and distantly related
species into wheat, and to distribute the germplasm generated world-wide for
exploitation in breeding programmes and in scientific research.
Much of the work undertaken on wheat has
been based on my earlier work on the forage grasses where the entire genome of Festuca pratensis was transferred into Lolium perenne in small overlapping
chromosome segments.