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Nina HOFHEINZ
Last name : HOFHEINZ
First name : Nina
Entrance year : 2026
Occupation : Team lead trait development oilseed crops
Company : KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
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Language : English
Address : Grimsehlstr. 31, 37574 Einbeck / Germany
Main fields of interest :
  • Seeds, genetics
  • Crop production
  • Agronomy
Professional experience : * 2010-2014: Research associate University of Gießen * 2014-2016: Genomic Breeder Fruit Crops Rijk Zwaan * since 2016: Breeding technologies maize and oil crops KWS
Education : Ph.D. Agriculture
Selected publications : * Hofheinz et al. Genome-based prediction of test cross performance in two subsequent breeding cycles (TAG, 2012) * Hofheinz et al. Heteroscedastic Ridge Regression Approaches for Genome-Wide Prediction With a Focus on Computational Efficiency and Accurate Effect Estimation (G3, 2014)