Tasks

• Leading the working group Phytopathology in Vegetable Crops, and investigation of fungal and bacterial pathogens in vegetable crops
• Investigation and evaluation of vegetable variety resistances for the Federal Plant Variety Office (Bundessortenamt)
• Development of sustainable crop protection concepts for vegetable production
• DFG-project: “Interactions in the bacterial pathobiome associated with crown gall disease: coexistence or competition?”
• Detection, identification and characterization of plant pathogenic bacteria
• Epidemiology and ecology of plant diseases
• Genetic diversity of and taxonomy of plant pathogenic bacteria