Our central topic: Developing new and alternative biologically integrated methods of disorder control in the field of vegetables and ornamentals production.
- Developing adequate test methodologies for experiments of efficacy against pests and diseases
- Developing and testing of new integrated, biological, and alternative methods of disorder control
- Integration into plant protection strategies that aim at a future-oriented production of vegetables and ornamentals
- Interdisciplinary exchange with working groups of related fields of activity
- Occurrence of new pathogens in vegetables and ornamentals
- Biology of pests and pathogenesis of infectious agents
- Strategies for an aimed, biological, and integrated plant protection
- Alternatives for plant protection incl. strategies for anti- infection measures
- Methods of monitoring for an early detection of infection
- Evaluation of plant protection methods