MPB is a research group at ETH Zurich, being part of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS) at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) and closely collaborating with scientists from Agroscope and other institutions involved in plant breeding research.
 
MPB aims at developing molecular methods and techniques to understand the genetic composition of complex traits and applying this knowledge to plant breeding, supporting the development of new cultivars with novel traits that can contribute to a sustainable agriculture.
 
MPB focuses on crop species, particularly forage and horticultural crops, and the use of various genotyping and sequencing technologies as well as bioinformatics approaches for genome analysis and breeding applications.