External collaborators:

• Dr. Ramona Thieme – Julius Kuehn Institute, Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants, Gross Lüsewitz Germany

• Acad. Dr. Ervin Balazs – Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Martonvásár Hungary

• Dr. Michael Davey – University of Nottingham, School of Bioscience UK

• Geert Angenon, Ivan Famelaer

– Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium

• Jan DeRiek – CLO Melle Belgium