Genetic and metabolic regulation of seed ageing in barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.)
Plants in the form of seeds have the longest lifespan of any non-clonally reproducing terrestrial beings. The aim of this study is to elucidate the metabolic processes that prevent, accompany or trigger seed death during long-term storage under...
Term: 2023-04-01 bis 2026-03-31Promotion of insects in agricultural landscapes through integrated cultivation systems with renewable raw materials - Subproject Aquatic Insects
The aim of the subproject "aquatic insects" is to record and describe the biodiversity (measured are: species diversity and abundance) of aquatic insects in small streams and standing waters in order to estimate the effects of the measures on the...
Term: 2022-10-01 bis 2025-09-30Evaluate and effectively utilize climate protection potentials of agroforestry (KlimAF) - TP2 JKI-ÖPV
In the subproject, climate-regulating soil microorganisms (nitrifiers, denitrifiers, methanotrophic and methanogenic microorganisms) and carbon stocks in topsoil (0-15, 15-30 cm) and subsoil (30-45, 45-60 cm) of poplar-based alley cropping systems...
Term: 2023-06-02 bis 2026-06-30Preventing stored product pests in Germany
Due to higher average annual temperatures as a result of climate change, the development conditions of stored product pest (SPP) insects are shifting towards optimum. Infestation are also occurring more frequently in the field. In addition to...
Term: 2022-10-01 bis 2025-11-30Identification of UV filter enrichment areas in the Baltic Sea - Investigation of the transport processes and long-term sinks in water and sediment
The project aims to identify input pathways, distribution patterns and long-term sinks of UV filters in the Baltic Sea in water and sediment. The investigation of the dynamics of these substances also serves as an example for transport mechanisms of...
Term: 2023-01-01 bis 2025-12-31Rewetting of agricultural waters as an immediate climate protection measure - Scientific assessment and impact assessment for the agricultural landscape
The German agricultural landscape is home to countless small standing bodies of water. Due to longer and warmer dry periods, climate change will lead to more and more small bodies of water drying out more frequently and for longer periods of time....
Term: 2022-10-01 bis 2025-09-30Identification of plant defence substances for breeding resistant sugar beet against the beet moth
Sugar from sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L., Chenopodiaceae) is a product of the food industry in Central Europe, which places the highest technological demands on the plant`s raw material. The beet moth, Scrobipalpa ocellatella (Boyd) (Lepidoptera,...
Term: 2023-03-01 bis 2026-02-28Testing the efficacy of plant extracts from the potato peel against phytopathogenic fungi
To protect itself from harmful organisms, the potato plant produces a large number of bioactive substances. These are mainly formed and stored where there is contact with harmful organisms, such as in the potato skin. Such skin metabolites can...
Term: 2022-08-01 bis 2024-12-31Sustainable agriculture with agroforestry systems - model and demonstration farms
The project will study organic and conventional farms that apply agroforestry practics. Recording the diversity and quantification of soil organisms will determine whether microbial soil life is enhanced by the integration of woody plants and how...
Term: 2024-06-01 bis 2028-05-31Ecological, technological and capacity building strategies for a sustainable optimization of local maize-based food systems and climate-change resilient food production at the level of smallholder farmers in Kenya
Maize, a frequently consumed staple food in sub-Saharan Africa, is regularly and heavily contaminated with carcinogenic fungal mycotoxins such as aflatoxins, which repeatedly leads to fatal outbreaks of aflatoxicosis. In Kenya in particular, a...
Term: 2024-03-01 bis 2027-02-28