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 professorships:

• Agricultural Entomology
• Agro-Engineering
• Applied Plant Nutrition
• Functional Agrobiodiversity
• Grassland Science
• Crop Plant Genetics
• Agronomy
• Plant Nutrition and Crop Physiology
• Plant Pathology and Plant Protection
• Quality and Sensory of Plant Products
• Soil Physics
• Tropical Plant Production and Agricultural Systems Modelling
• Genetics and Physiology of Roots (Joint Chair with IPK)
• Plant Breeding Methodology

Former working groups resp. professorships

• Agro-Ecology
• Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems
• Genomic of Genetic Resources (Joint Chair with IPK)
• Molecular Phytopathology and Mycotoxin Research
• Quality of Plant Products

infrastructural facilities

• DNPW-IT-Team
• Experimental Farm ("Lehr- und Versuchsstation Göttingen")

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