Tasks

• Climate change mitigation and adapting horticultural production systems to the use of peat-reduced substrates
• Research into the opportunities and risks of peat-reduced substrates and peat substitutes for integrated plant protection.
• Investigation of promoting and inhibiting influences of horticultural substrates on the development of fungus gnats.
• Investigations into tritrophic interactions between substrates, harmful arthropods and cultivated plants

Current projects

• ToPGa - Development and evaluation of peat-reduced production systems in horticulture