Scopes and research activities: 

• research associate/PhD student in the working group “mycology in viticulture”
  
  • participation in the BMEL funded cooperative project “AuDiSens: Development of a sensor-based early-diagnosis system to detect downy mildew, Plasmopara viticola, for an improved plant protection strategy in organic viticulture”

• microscopical and molecular techniques for the pathogen diagnostics prior to symptom development
• comparison of the pathogen’s epidemiology between fungal-resistant and traditional grapevine cultivars
• evaluation of different spraying regimes against downy mildew for an improved plant protection strategy in organic viticulture

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut