Safety of RNAi technology in plant protection: Method evaluation for estimating effectivity and potential impacts on target and off-target organisms
“RNAi_safe” pursues a methodological approach to answer open questions about the safe use of RNAi technology in plant protection. The project aims at detecting and evaluating of potential exposure pathways and effects of dsRNA-based plant...
Term: 2022-01-01 bis 2026-02-15Detection of virulent populations of the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida by hyperspectral signatures.
The Institute of Crop and Soil Science is participating in the project with the design and construction of a greenhouse measurement stand for the acquisition of spectral data under standardized conditions. By means of hyperspectral point and imaging...
Term: 2021-11-01 bis 2024-12-31Development and testing of practicable procedures for inactivation and detection of potato wart disease causing fungus Synchytrium endobioticum in solid and liquid soil) residues (SYNergie)
Term: 2021-06-15 bis 2024-08-14MonViA - National monitoring of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes - Subproject "Wild bees and honeybees"
The sub-project ‚Monitoring of honey- and wild bees’ focuses on collecting data on honeybee vitality and species richness of wild bees in Germany’s agricultural landscapes. The effect of different agricultural practices on honeybee vitality...
Term: 2019-01-01 bis 2025-12-31Aphid Identification by Artificial Intelligence
Term: 2021-05-01 bis 2024-08-31Computer-aided prognoses and Decision Support Systems in crop protection (ValiProg)
ValiProg aims at adapting and improving forecasitng models in arable crops, since a number of existing forecasting and decision support systems (EHS), which are important for arable farming practice must urgently be adapted and validated to the...
Term: 2019-11-12 bis 2024-12-31MonViA - National monitoring of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes - Subproject "Biodiversity of small freshwaters"
Small freshwater systems in agricultural landscapes are vulnerable to inputs of plant protection products and fertilizers. Therefore, the fauna in these water bodies can be severely impaired. This is crucial, since small freshwaters host the largest...
Term: 2019-01-01 bis 2024-12-31New cropping systems
Scope of the project is the development of processes and the identification of research gaps to achieve the goal of sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. For this purpose agronomic approaches, digitalization as well as automation of...
Term: 2018-01-01 bis 2025-09-30Development of a strategy for the sustainable expansion of organic farming
Term: 2014-01-01 bis 2024-12-31Risk assessment of the effects of plant protection products on beneficial organisms, issuing of labelling proposals within the framework of registration
In the national approval procedure for plant protection products, the JKI is the consulting authority for, among other things, the assessment of the effects on beneficial arthropods (PflSchG §57, paragraph 9). On the basis of the studies submitted...
Term: 2016-01-01 bis 2027-12-31