Assignments and Research Activities:

• Development of novel tools and strategies for the integrated sustainable control of fungal pathogens in oilseed rape cultivations
• Characterization of German Plasmodiophora brassicae-populations and possible strategies to suppress the clubroot disease in oilseed rape fields
• Studies on the occurrence of fungicide resistance in oilseed rape cultivations through monitoring programs
• Evaluation of fungicide resistance management strategies
• Screening for disease resistance in oilseed rape cultivars / lines against fungal diseases during the official examination for German federal office of plant varieties (BSA)
• Efficacy evaluation of fungicides and plant growth regulators in the context of the authorisation of plant protection products

Memberships and other activities:

• Member of EPPO Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides
• German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health (DPG)
• German Agricultural Society (DLG)
• Guest Editor of special issue (Plasmodiophora brassicae) for journal ‘Pathogens’
• Ad-hoc Reviewer for various scientific journals
  
  • Applied Agricultural and Forestry Research
  • Canadian Journal of Plant Science
  • Crop Protection
  • European Journal of Plant Pathology
  • Pathogens
  • Plant Disease
  • Plant Pathology
  • Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut