Facts
RDI Introduction
- Located in the Czech Republic
- Private research institution, 85 FTE Staff
- Annual budget €3m
- €20m extra infrastructure investment in 2015
- 8 International projects (FP7, Norway funds, EUREKA)
- 300 publications in
- past 5 years
- 86 new cultivars
What we offer
- Our experienced team
- More than 2500 mild climate fruit cultivars and more than 30 years of phenological evaluation data
- World leading sweet cherry breeding programme (Kordia, Tamara)
- Use of the latest laboratory equipment (ICP-MS, GC/MS, LC/Coul Array, IonTorrent and Sangers sequencer, Cryogenetic freezer lab etc.)
- Excellent sweet cherry cultivars breeding
