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Division of Plant Pathology and Plant Protection
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Division of Plant Pathology and Crop Protection of the University of Göttingen comprises four sections of the Department of Crop Sciences of the Georg-August University of Göttingen: Agricultural Entomology, General Plant Pathology and Crop Protection, Molecular Phytopathology and Mycotoxin Research and Plant Virology. Within the institute, mainly the departments of mycology and entymology carry out applied research on fungae and pests in food crops in the tropics and subtropics.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Changed occurrence of pathogens in wheat
- Climatic influences on the development of pathogens in the rape epidemic
- Climatic influences on the epidemic development of pathogens in maize
- Collaborative project: Identification of quantitative resistance for production of new cultivars with durable broad-spectrum resistance against Phoma lingam causing stem canker of rapeseed - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Improving fungal resistance in maize by combining genetic and molecular resources using precision breeding. Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Improving resistance in maize against Fusarium ear rot – relevant fungal species, mycotoxins and the response of maize genotypes. Subproject 2
- FOR 546 Project 2: Expression profiling in Brassica napus L. infected with Verticililium longisporum
- Klimaeinflüsse auf die epidemische Entwicklung von Pathogenen im Mais Adjustment of preventive measures for disease and pest control
- Research of existing literature and data on pathogens and insect pests
- SFB 552: C6 - Diversity of endophytic fungi on cacao and impact on plant pathogenherbivorous insect interactions in relation to agroforestry diversity and management
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Improving the prognosis of rape stem flea beetles in winter oil seed rape
- Integrated management of major insect pests and diseases of cashew in east and western Africa
- Possibilities of improving the effectiveness of Attracap against wireworms by irrigation after planting potatoes
- Sustainable Land Management in the North German lowlands under changing environmental, ecological and social conditions (NaLaMa-nT). Subproject L3: development of agricultural production
Contact
Division of Plant Pathology and Plant Protection
Grisebachstr. 6
D - 37077 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 0551 / 393700
Fax: +49 0551 / 398177
Email: vschade(@)gwdg.de