Assignments and Research Activities:

• Research into diagnostics, epidemiology and control of bacterial quarantine diseases of cultivated plants focusing potatoes.
• Elaboration and assessment of national and European regulations and standards on diagnostics and the management of bacterial quarantine diseases of cultivated plants.
• Reference functions in the diagnostics of bacterial diseases of potatoes.
• Quality assurance in plant health diagnostics as a result of the implementation of international standards.

Memberships:

• Head of the working group „Bacterial quarantine diseases of potatoes and other crops”
• Member of the Panel on Diagnostics in Bacteriology of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut