Plant Protection

The plant protection group is delivering research based knowledge to integrated crop protection and management in agriculture and in natural and semi-natural habitats.

  • Weed biology and management
  • Use of new technologies to reduce pesticide use
  • Site-specific weed management.
  • Using drones and satellites for weed mapping
  • Ecotoxicology related to pesticide use
  • Seed science and technology
  • Phenotyping
  • Statistical analysis of bioassays
  • Plant pathology

  • WeLaser: Weed control using image processing, laser and robot technologies.
  • Clopyralid in honey: Testing nectar and honey from oil-seed rape for the content of a herbicide.
  • Evalution of genebank material after 30 years storage: Evaluation of seeds stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
  • Anvendelse af droner og billedbehandling til positionsspecifik tildeling af vækstregulering: Assessments of seed yield and lodging in red fescue (Festuca rubra ) sprayed with trinexapac-ethyl (Modus M)
    • Anvendelse af Dronebilleder
    • Using drone imagery
    • EGFg Eucarpia Zurich 2019
    • Agronomy 090617
  • Characterization of foliar diseases infecting quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa ) and search for sources of resistance to downy mildew (Peronospora variabilis Gäum.): Plant pathological studies of infested plants of different quinoa varieties.
  • Towards improved data-driven decision making: Introducing benchmark dose methodology in pesticide regulation: Development of methodology and software for benchmark dose estimation.
  • Nordic Public Private Partnership Plant Phenotyping Project – Phase 2: Phenotyping in a breeding context using drones
  • NORFAB: Protein for the Northern Hemisphere: Improving the yield and quality of faba bean seeds.
  • AC/DC Weeds: Applying and Combining Disturbance and Competition for an agro-ecological management of creeping perennial weeds
  • Future Cropping. A social partnership on intelligent, sustainable and efficient plant production.
  • UAS ability: Infrastructure for developing the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in remote sensing
  • Etablering af ERFA grupper med fokus på at komme i gang med og komme videre med præcisionssprøjtning i praksis: Establishment of stakeholder groups for the adaptation of spot-spraying

Research group leader

Christian Andreasen
Associate Professor