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Department of Crop Sciences
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Department of Crop Sciences (DNPW) was founded in 2006 with the aim to coordinate research and teaching in the field of crop sciences, including agricultural ecology, agricultural technology, agricultural biotechnology and to develop and use. The DNPW consists of twelve departments
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Assessing the relevance of an enhanced root growth due to the activity of rhizobacteria for plant phosporus uptake under low P supply
- Breeding and agronomy of novel, low-vicine faba beans and adoption as domestic protein feed
- Breeding of oilseed rape with reduced fibre content
- Causes of the argon-induced decline in nitrogenase activity in root nodules of legumes
- Collaborative project: Development of biocontrol measures for the biological degradation of fungal inoculum orginated from cereal and rape debris using the fungal antagonist Microsphaeropsis ochracea – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Ensuring multifunctionality in forage production through species richness in intensive grasslands - Subproject A
- Collaborative Project: Healthy barley - a biotechnology based breeding strategy to increase the resistance to leaf spots ramularia against ramularia leaf spots – Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Identification of lentil (Lens culinaris) genotypes for sustainable cropping systems in temperate climates
- 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 3
- Collaborative project: Improvement of oilseed rape resistence against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
- Collaborative project: Rapeseed as a domestic protein source of excellent quality for human consumption
- Collaborative project: Use of re-synthesis S30 improving resistance towards the big rape stem weevil, a major pest in local rapeseed farming - subproject 3
- Crop farming strategies to reduce weed infestation in mulch-till of field bean
- Different cadmium uptake by crops - root causes physiological and rhizosphärenchemische
- ERA-Net PlantGenomics - Joint project: 'Securing sustainable production of food and feed (Cerehealth, subprojects C)'
- Functional Agrobiodiversity
- Genetic studies on the inheritance of dormancy in winter
- Importance of fungicide application and variety resistance toxininduzierende stress as factors in Fusarium graminearum in wheat rotations
- Improved process understanding and quantification of nitrous oxide fluxes in a typical German crop rotation
- Improving the breed spectrum of food crops and seedlings of tomato
- Investigation of the coupling balance in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)
- Microbial storing substances: Underrated components of soil carbon recirculation?
- Molecular and quantitative genetical analysis of the seed size of broad bean (Vicia faba L.)
- NatBio - Analysis of potential for providing natural biomass
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in energy crop production by cultivating winter cover crops and permanent crops
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rapeseed cultivation with special reference to nitrogen fertilization. Subproject 4: Analysis and evaluation of field trials at the site Merbitz
- Root production is determined by grazing-induced scar heterogeneity in extensive permanent grassland irrespective the grazing intensity
- SPP 1149: Genetic Analysis of Heterosis in Rapeseed (B. napus L.)
- SPP 1149: Molecular genetics of heterosis of the plant`s earliest stage, the embryo, using the large-seeded faba bean as model
- SPP 1149: Rapeseed as a model to analyse `fixed heterosis` in allopolyploid plants
- Year-round availability of fruit and vegetables through resource-efficient processing and new marketing opportunities as instruments for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa - subproject 1
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Developing high intensity fruit garden agroforestry systems for small-scale farmers of Eastern Africa
- Diversity Turn in Land Use Science: The importance of social diversity for sustainable land use innovation using the example of the vanilla cultivation in Madagascar
- ERA-Net PlantGenomics - Joint project: 'Securing sustainable production of food and feed (Cerehealth, Part D plans)'
- ERA-Net PlantGenomics - Joint project: 'Securing sustainable production of food and feed (CEREHEALTH, subprojects G).
- Occurrence of Fusarium species and their toxins in German oat cultivation and development of strategies for their reduction by varietal resistance
Contact
Department of Crop Sciences
Von-Siebold-Straße 8
37075 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49+551-39-5567
Fax: +49+551-39-4601
Email: dnpw-sek(@)uni-goettingen.de
