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Section of Agricultural Entomology
Institution
Section overview
Description
Research within the Entomology Section focuses on biotic and abiotic interactions between plants, herbivorous pests and their natural enemies in agricultural ecosystems. Using basic data obtained from this research, systems are developed for integrated pest control in different crops.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: Breeding of oilseed rape with resistance to insect pests favoured by climate change – Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Protection of crops from soil-borne insect pests by a novel attract and kill strategy - Subproject 2
- German resistance screening maize against the invasive western corn rootworm and identification of possible resistance factors
- Impacts of climate change on important pests in maize
- Impacts of climate change on insect pests in rape
- Improving the knowledge of the dynamics of the regulation sizes for pollen beetles with the aim of improving and refining the computer-based forecasting and decision support
- Improving the knowledge of the dynamics of the regulation sizes for pollen beetles with the aim of improving and refining the computer-based forecasting and decision support
- Interactions between Maize root-associated fungi and the Western Corn Rootworm
Involved in research projects
- Collaborative project: Breeding of oilseed rape with resistance to insect pests favoured by climate change – Subproject 2
- Integrated management of major insect pests and diseases of cashew in east and western Africa
- Klimaeinflüsse auf die epidemische Entwicklung von Pathogenen im Mais Development and adverse effects of animal pests of sugar beet
Contact
Section of Agricultural Entomology
Grisebachstr. 6
D-37077 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany