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Institute for Crop and Soil Science (JKI-PB)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Research at the Institute of Crop and Soil Sciences is dedicated to basic and applied topics of agricultural primary production and the protection and conservation of its natural resources. The first priority of research is focused on the goals of sustainability, such as the production of high quality food and feed and adaptating plant production to global change. As well as this primarily politically opportune topics such as the production of plants for energy, industrial crops or cropping with genetically modified plants are investigated and evaluated.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants – Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)
Coordinated projects
- A fast method for recognition and documentation of growth heterogeneities in agriculture
- Advanced manure standards for sustainable nutrient management and reduced emissions
- Agricultural extreme weather conditions and possibilities of risk management systems
- AgroEcological solutions for Safe and fair Operating Spaces of agricultural systems in the urban-rural transition zone
- Application of the near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for the ethanol cereal breeding and ethanol production
- BackProg: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 1
- Baltic forum for inventive technologies for sustainable manure management
- Building a cluster to provide current remote sensing products for agriculture subproject 1
- Collaborate project: Use of remote sensing technologies for digitization in crop production. Subproject 6
- Collaborative project: Development of indicators to assess the productivity, intensity of use and vulnerability of agricultural soils in Germany. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Establishment of steady partnerships for sustainable supply of renewable raw materials for German enterprises, subproject 3: Quality standards and access to raw materials
- Collaborative Project: Evaluation of renewable raw materials for biogas production for plant breeding; Subproject 5: Development of NIRS calibrations of fresh material under online-conditions and development of online database for NIRS calibration
- Collaborative project: Increase of nitrogen efficiency and reduction of nitrogen surpluses in baking wheat production by utilization of new specific traits. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Remote sensing assessment of drought and heat tolerance of wheat genotypes at selection sites with accompanying studies on rooting depth, root morphology and water balance. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Satellite-based information for grassland management. Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Using multiple sensors to optimize rating in crop production – Subproject 1
- Concretion and sample conception for bioecological indicators
- Contamination of native medicinal plants with heavy metals and possibilities to reduce their content in the progeny grown under controlled growth conditions in Egypt
- Contamination of native medicinal plants with heavy metals and possibilities to reduce their content in the progeny grown under controlled growth conditions in Egypt
- Continued development of the nitrogen balance for agriculture in Germany
- Correlation between mineral nutrition and plant health
- Demonstration project: Indicators for the early detection of nitrate loads in crop cultivation. Coordination
- Development and comparison of optimized cultivation systems for agricultural production of energy crops under different site conditions in Germany - Phase II (EVA II). Subproject 5: Irrigation and water requirements of energy crops
- Development and evaluation of peat-reduced production systems in horticulture
- Development and implementation of sustainable strategies to improve food-safety and retain nutritional values by reducing fungal infestation and aflatoxin contamination in the food-chain in Kenya as model region for Sub-Saharan Africa. Subproject 2
- Development of 'Good Agricultural Practices' for crop husbandry
- Development of a functional fertilizer based on glucosinolate-containing catch crops for a simultaneous control of fungal pathogens in organic farming on the example of strawberry
- Development of a method for fast comprehensive acquisition of economically relevant quality parameters of fresh and dried plant material by NIR-spectrometry
- Development of a regional monitoring of nutrient deficiencies and nutrient losses in crops
- Development of a web-based field trial information systems
- Development of an automated support system to monitor agricultural funding and compensation sites
- Development of codes for good agricultural practice and fertilisation strategies for sustainability
- Development of decision making bases for the optimised variable rate application of fertilizers
- Development of fescue species as bioenergy grass in marginal locations
- Development of seed based new hybrids for Miscanthus
- Development of spectral indicators for water, nutrients and pollutants in soil and crops (long term study)
- Development of standards for data acquisition and analysis for the use of unmanned aircraft in plant breeding and variety testing
- Development of strategies for adapting the quality production of agricultural crops to climate change and gartenbaullicher in Lower Saxony. TP3: Adaptation of variety, soil preparation and fertilization on scarce water supplies in the production of quality wheat
- Drift reduction in pesticide applications through agroforestry systems with different rotation periods with regard to their implications on the biodiversity of wild bees and epigeic predators on winter oilseed rape neighboring areas
- Ecological and economic assessment of agroforestry systems in agricultural practice, sub-project 3, location Lower Saxony
- Economic impact evaluation of plant production strategies with particular consideration of plant protection strategies
- Effect of agricultural management on temporary carbon sinks in the form of crop residues and plant roots.
- Effects of crop rotation and reduced factor input on crop yield and quality
- Effects of fertilizers on soil microbial N dynamics
- Effects of plant production under different climate conditions in agricultural ecosystems
- Efficiency increase in the silage process - New concepts to minimize energy losses
- Elemental fingerprinting of manures and commercial fertilizers
- Erosion control for water protection when cultivating energy plants
- Establishment of efficient procedures for the prevention of N-emissions to drinking water protection areas
- EVA II FNR FAL Braunschweig Energy plants irrigation. Subproject 5: Influence of additional irrigation on biogas yield of energy crops
- Evaluate and effectively utilize climate protection potentials of agroforestry TP0 JKI-PB
- Evaluation and agronomical optimization of sainfoin from different origins for biomass production and assessment of the influence of tannins on foam formation in biogas plants
- Evaluation of adapted crop yield estimates within the statistical network integrating modern methods of remote sensing
- Evaluation of breeding lines and varieties of different legumes species (Lupinus spp., Glycine max)
- Expansion of legume cultivation in Germany
- Extensive grazing systems compared to intensive food production in dairy farming
- Fertilization strategies for the Optimation of the protein content of new, high yielding malting barly varieties for achiving protein contents in line with the market
- Field-based innovative measurment techniques for improving the drought tolerance of biogas rye
- Further development of algorithms of 'Professional Interpretation Programme for Plant Analysis' (PIPPA): Extension for legumes, fibre plants and beneficial elements (vanadium, cobalt)
- High-Sugar-Gras - study of yield capacity, ingredients and parameter of forage quality
- Identification and quantification of pharmaceutical compounds in farmyard manures and fertilizers from secondary raw material
- Implementation of a sequentially coupled cascade use of German ryegrass
- Improving the performance of forage legumes through the use of optimal symbiotic partners using the example of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia)
- Increasing active compounds of medical plants by targeted fertilization
- Influence of bio-char from biofuel production on nutrient availability in agricultural soils and on physical and biological soil parameters
- Influence of plant fertilization on the release of climate relevant trace gases
- Innovative solutions to sustainable soil phosphorus management
- Innovative solutions to sustainable Soil Phosphorus management, subproject G bone coal and other secondary phosphorus-containing materials to produce innovative phosphorus fertilizers
- Investigation of the soil and root layer system under grassland
- Investigation of yield and quality formation processes with spectral methods
- Irrigation and water demand of energy crops
- Isotope labeling of heavy metals in commercial P-fertilizers
- Joint project: Sustainable production of energy wood in agroforestry systems, sub-project 3: Structural diversity and biodiversity
- Joint project: Sustainable Agriculture with the help of Artificial Intelligence, Subproject: Multiscale and multisensor information extraction from remote sensing data
- Long-term effects of mineral and organic fertilisation on humus content and humus quality of arable soils
- Maintenance of the elemental Databas for manures and commercial fertilizers
- Maturation, quality and yield formation of silage maize in dependence of temperature sum and further climatological parameters
- Measures to increase the cultivation of medical plants in Germany
- Minimising the content of mineral oil in edible oils
- Minimizing N2O release from arable soils by fluid N fertilizer injection
- Modelling Approaches for Plant Biomass Production and Evaluation of the Energetic Value of Plant Components
- Modelling of the effects of fertilisation under climate change
- On site quantification of nutrient leaching processes by matrix and macropore flux in different cropping systems
- Permanent cup plant crops: a contribution to water and soil protection
- Phosphorus Recycling of Mixed Substances
- Practice field phenotyping of rapeseed yield components under dynamic conditions
- Prediction and Modeling of Hybrid Performance and Yield Gain in Oilseed Rape by Systems Biology
- Process development for cost-effective and selective production of gibberellins for yield enhancement in energy crops
- Product chains from fen biomass in Lower Saxony
- Quantifying the water use of energy crops
- Reduce nitrate contamination in drinking water protection area Meyenburg by the CULTAN fertilization procedures, and establishment of a monitoring plan by leachate collector (pCAPs) performance review
- Regional detection of the current agricultural yield potential by remote sensing - RiflE
- Research programme on ensuring coexistence between non-GM and GM agriculture as well as on biodiversity protection
- Root investigations by X-Ray Computed tomography of wheat and grassland depending of management options
- Satellite based crop yield estimation to support official agricultural statistics
- Seasonal analysis of Lysimeter data to quantify the dynamics and the balances of water and chemical loads in soil water fluxes
- Set-up of network for ressource efficient phosphorous recycling and management in the region of Harz and Heide
- Spatial modelling of the influence of farm management practice on the infiltration potential of agricultural soils (HOT)
- Subproject 2: Nutrient availability and nutrient turnover
- Substitution and compensation potential of oil and protein crops with respect to specific quality traits
- Suitability of meteorological parameters for crop management and yield
- Sustainable and climate-adapted cereal cropping
- Sustainable intensification of agriculture through agroforestry
- Sustainable intensification of agriculture through agroforestry. Subproject 5: Quality of in- and outputs of crop and tree biomass in agroforestry systems
- Synergy of bioenergy plant cultivation and biodiversity
- Uptake and transport of heavy metals in crop plants
- Use of hyperspectral remote sensing for determining the condition of agricultural land with special attention to drought stress
- Value tests and analyzes in grasses and intercrops as part of the Bundessortenamt
- Water and climate oriented production and processing of winter wheat
- Water and climate oriented production and processing of winter wheat
- Water and nutrient consumption and balances of crops in different cropping systems
- Yield and quality of industrial plants (miscanthus) usable as roofing material
- Yield stability and quality management of agricultural crops
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- A farmland biodiversity monitoring for Germany. Subproject 'Monitoring other organisms groups - arable weeds'
- BackProg: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 2
- BackProg: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Breeding methodically optimized intercropping of Andean Lupin and Maize as well as White Lupin and Oat with the aim of biomass production by using ecosystem services of Lupins. Subproject 1: Coordination, Rating of Combinations Andean Lupine - Corn and White Lupine - Oats, cultivation optimization
- Comparison of the allergenic potential of produce of plant origin derived from organic farming with plant produce derived from conventional farming
- Diversified cropping systems for optimized multifunctional production of biomass on marginal land (DIVERSYMASS)
- Evaluation and improvement of biodiversity in agricultural areas with the use of indicator species
- Evaluation of Andean lupin (L. mutabilis) in comparison to white (L. albus) and narrow-leafed lupin (L. angustifolius) for energy recovery
- Impact of reduced precipitation and N-fertilizer injection techniques on emission of greenhouse gases from arable soils
- Molecular analysis of important nematodes infecting soybean in Germany
- National monitoring of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Subproject 'Biodiversity of small freshwaters'
- National monitoring of biological diversity on farmlands. Subproject 'Development of technolgy'
- National monitoring of biological diversity on farmlands. Subproject 'Monitoring the diversity of habitats - small landscape structures and landscape elements'
- New cropping systems
- Optimizing Bio-based Fertilisers in Agriculture – Knowledgebase for New Policies
- Reduce nitrate contamination in drinking water protection area Meyenburg by the CULTAN fertilization procedures, and establishment of a monitoring plan by leachate collector (pCAPs) performance review
- Reduce nitrate contamination in drinking water protection area Meyenburg by the CULTAN fertilization procedures, and establishment of a monitoring plan by leachate collector (pCAPs) performance review
- Reducing NH3 losses from application of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and increasing nitrogen use efficiency of fertilization
- SusCrop Call 1: Development of lodging-resistant and climate-smart rye - a contribution to a sustainable cereal production in marginal environments
- Sustainable fodder production in grasslands and fodder production by applying the CULTAN-fertilization method taking account of basic fodder quality and manure recycling
- Sustainable fodder production in grasslands and fodder production by applying the CULTAN-fertilization method taking account of basic fodder quality and manure recycling
- Water and Climate Protection oriented Production and Processing of Winter Wheat
- Water and climate protection oriented production and processing of winter wheat. Subproject 1: Conducting field trials at 3 locations with 6 quality wheat varieties
- Water and climate protection oriented production and processing of winter wheat. Subproject 2: Effects of different nitrogen regimes on the baking quality of wheat
Contact
Institute for Crop and Soil Science
(JKI-PB)
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 (531) 596-2102/2104
Fax: +49 (531) 596-2199
Email: pb(@)julius-kuehn.de