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ATB Department 6 Horticultural Engineering
Institution
Section overview
Description
Headlong changes in social, technical and political conditions have led to many alterations in market gardening too, during recent years. The main requirements demanded of producers today by trade, consumer and public sectors are large delivery quantities, optimum quality, low prices and environmentally compatible production. A closer look at developments reveals that there is still great potential for research and development, especially in the fields of postharvest treatment of fruit and vegetables.
In a complex research approach, scientists of different disciplines work together in the department on the closly linked sectors of humankind, plants and technology with a view to securing quality and competitiveness in horticulture.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)
Coordinated projects
- Advanced Monitoring of Tree Crops for Optimized Management - How to Cope With Variability in Soil and Plant Properties?
- Colaborative project: Mycotoxin screening of grains during and before storage (OptiScreen) - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Acoustic resonance analysis for quality detection of horticultural products – using the example of hollow white asparagus and mealy pome and stone fruit – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Application of plasma technology for gentle preservation of perishables in the post-harvest chain – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Coupled optical measurement techniques for mobile determination of quality signatures along the doner meat production chain – subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development of a rapid chlorophyll fluorescence imaging-based early-detection method of mildew-resistant lettuce lines – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Freshness terminal system for fruit and vegetables – a tool for consumer decisions – subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Plasma-based decontamination of dried plant-related products for an enhancement of food safety. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Sensor-aided, tree-specific mechanical flower thinning. Subproject 1
- COOL - flow sensor based airflow in fruit and vegetable warehouses; Flow simulation and measurement for bulk bins and storerooms as a basis for the design and operation of cold stores
- Coordination and Management of ProSenso.net2
- Differentiation of autofluorescence signatures for online detection of bacterial contaminants in automated meat cutting
- Hazard perception based on cross-production identification of plant-associated microorganisms
- Highly efficient sensors for perishable fruit products to evaluate the role and impact of technologies on nutritional damage and elaborate optimising strategies
- Joint Project: Intelligent Radio-based irrigation (IFuB) – Subproject 5
- LeguAN: Innovative and integrated value-added concepts for functional food and feed from grain legume crops local from cultivation to usage. Subproject 6: Technological evaluation and comparison of methods
- USER-PA: USability of Environmentally sound and Reliable techniques in Precision Agriculture
- WeGa - Work Packages 3.2, 4.6 and 4.7
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Collaborative project: Freshness terminal system for fruit and vegetables - a tool for consumer decisions – subproject 2
- Joint Project: Intelligent Radio-based irrigation (IFuB) - Subproject 1
- Minimal processing in automated process chains of meat processing on the example of the boning of pork (ham)
Contact
ATB Department 6 Horticultural Engineering
Max-Eyth-Allee 100
D - 14469 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: (0331) 5699 -611
Fax: (0331) 5699 -849
Email: gabbert(@)atb-potsdam.de