Tasks

• Enhancing  plant defense against phytonematodes using  quorum signaling molecules
• Assessing   priming capacity in different varitires of soybean for breeding approaches
• Analysing the induction and accumulation of  biochemical metabolites  especially  phytoalexins  as chemical markers for plant response to nematodes after priming
• Project "Priming of induced systemic resistance against plant-parasistic nematodes in soybean" (PhD study, guest from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, TU Braunschweig)
  (JKI-supervisor: Dr. Heuer)