PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Manipulating Meiotic Crossover Control in Wheat

Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

Institution: University of East Anglia
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 p.a
Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

About this position

Primary Supervisor - Dr Chris Morgan Meiotic recombination generates the genetic diversity on which both evolution and crop breeding depend. In wheat and other cereals, crossovers are strongly biased towards certain regions of the genome, leaving vast stretches almost untouched. This is a major bottleneck for breeders racing to develop climate-resilient varieties, as beneficial alleles within these low-recombination regions cannot easily be separated from linked deleterious variants (""linkage drag""). This PhD will investigate whether the crossover landscape in wheat can be deliberately manip

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Applications close on 30 Nov 2026 (18 days from today). Apply on the official page; PhD Atlas does not collect applications.

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ486/phd-studentship-manipulating-meiotic-crossover-control-in-wheat

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