Department für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften

Welcome at the Department of Crop Sciences

The Department of Crop Sciences was established in 2006. Main goals are coordination and pooling of interests for advanced research and teaching in the field of crop sciences including agro-ecology, agricultural engineering, land use and biotechnology.
Currently the Department of Crop Sciences consists of the following units:

• Agricultural Entomology
• Agro-Ecology
• Agro-Engineering
• Applied Plant Nutrition
• Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems
• Functional Agrobiodiversity
• Genomic of Genetic Resources (Joint Chair with IPK)
• Grassland Science
• Molecular Phytopathology and Mycotoxin Research
• Crop Plant Genetics
• Agronomy
• Plant Nutrition and Crop Physiology
• Plant Pathology and Plant Protection
• Quality of Plant Products
• Quality and Sensory of Plant Products
• Soil Physics
• Tropical Plant Production and Agricultural Systems Modelling
• Plant Breeding Methodology

Service unit

Associated Institutions

• Center for Integrated Breeding Research (CiBreed)
  
• Center of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL)
  
• Institute for sugar beet research (IfZ)
  
• Institute of Applied Plant Nutrition (IAPN)
  
• Department of Ecosystem Modelling