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Institute of Crop Science (340)
Institution
Section overview
Description
General plant production, renewable and bioenergy plants, bioinformatics, coordinator for organic farming and consumer protection, product quality and yield physiology of special crops, horticulture, nutrition of crops, fertilisation with soil chemistry, plant nutrition
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Basic analysis of wheat quality in terms of improving nitrogen use efficiency
- BonaRes (Modul A, Phase 2): DiControl - Impacts on agronomical management as well as on the employment of microbial biocontrol strains on soil health and suppressivness towards pathogens - subproject D
- Causes, effects and prevention of premature fruit drop in mango
- Collaborative project: Improved assessment of the greenhouse gas emission reduction by catch crops in arable crop production and development of an advisory tool for more precise nitrogen fertilization after catch crop cultivation – subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Improvement of open pollinating broccoli varieties for organic farming focusing on agronomic parameters, bioactive substances and sensorial traits. Subproject 1
- Data based N-balancing in field vegetable farming
- Development and evaluation of application-confinement strategies for control of gene transfer through volunteer raps
- Economic and ecological evaluation of a biorefinery concept for the production of fucoxanthin and EPA on a pilot scale and transdisciplinary developed scenarios on an industrial scale in Germany
- Genetic factors in regulation of the cluster radix of white lupins
- GlobE - vinasse as a raw material for production of high quality feed and food products based on brine shrimp and algae - an integrated approach to sustainable biofuels and food production as a contribution to food security in Africa
- Implications on soil management practices and application of biocontrol strains on soil disease suppressiveness for improved soil health and sustainable plant production. Subproject E
- Meta analysis for rescuing improved weightening methods for statistical analysis of multi-local cultivar trials
- Multifunctional biomass systems - Development of a concept for pooling expertise
- Optimization thigmo morphogenetic effects for the alternative growth regulation of pot cultures by use of air-controlled stimuli
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rapeseed cultivation with special reference to nitrogen fertilization. Subproject 7:
- Repeated drought cycles and boron uptake in the rhizosphere
- SPP 1149: Biometric tools for microarrays
- WeGa - Work package 2, 3
Coordinated collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Climate change scenario modelling of soil carbon turnover on basis of improved soil carbon pool distribution on a regional scale
- Coupling pyrolysis with mid-infrared spectroscopy for the parameterisation of soil carbon turnover models on a regional scale
- Coupling pyrolysis with mid-infrared spectroscopy for the parameterisation of soil carbon turnover models on a regional scale
- SPP 1149: Transcriptome- and metabolome-based prediction of heterosis and hybrid performance in experimental hybrids of maize
Contact
Institute of Crop Science (340)
Fruwirthstr. 23
70599 Stuttgart
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Phone: 0711 459-22370
Fax: 0711 459-22297
Email: caissa.keil(@)uni-hohenheim.de