The Division Agronomy is performing outstanding research related to various themes such as...

• sustainable ressource use in plant production
• environmentally sound cropping systems
• impacts of climate change and climate variability on field crops
• impacts of abiotic stress factors (heat, drought, frost ...) on crops
• interactions in plant communities, mixed cropping
• towards a sustainable bioeconomy: energy crops
• organic agiculture: impact of no-tillage systems

Methods:

• Crop growth modelling
• Modelling of water and nutrient fluxes
• Detecting GHG-emissions by chamber measurements and eddy-covariance flux towers
• Development and analysis of complex data sets using geographic information systems
• Fourier Transform Infrared- (FTIR) Spektroskopy for root distinction
• Isotope analyses to quantify symbiotic nitrogen fixation