Junior research group medicinal plants – practical research for competitiveness consolidation of German medicinal plants growing and support of academic junior staff (NWG Arzneipflanzen)
The "Junior Research Group Medicinal Plants - Practice-oriented Research for Consolidating the Competitiveness of German Medicinal Plant Cultivation and Promoting Young Academics (NWG Medicinal Plants)" was established at the Julius Kühn Institute...
Term: 2020-02-01 bis 2025-05-31Enhancing Added Value in Hemp Cultivation through the Identification and Utilization of Valuable Minor Cannabinoids
Hemp contains approximately 120 cannabinoids with potentially valuable pharmaceutical properties, many of which remain inadequately researched. By gaining a deeper understanding of these cannabinoids and developing hemp varieties with elevated...
Term: 2024-12-01 bis 2027-11-30Microspore embryogenesis for horticultural crops
Nowadays haploid and double haploid (DH) induction become essential to rapidly improve the breeding of a wide range of strategic plant crops. Monohaploid and Polyhaploids of different genotypes can be somatically hybridized and generate new DH and...
Term: 2024-04-01 bis 2027-10-31Image Database for AI-Supported Automated Scoring Using the Example of Tomato
- Construction of a test stand for the collection of image data of tomato plants and individual compartments - Development of a database with the collected image data and scoring data - Annotation of the specific plant compartments in the images -...
Term: 2024-07-01 bis 2026-05-21Analysis of the profile and biosynthesis of volatile compounds in marjoram: a bottom-up approach
- Creation of a set of marjoram accessions (Origanum majorana) from regional cultivation with the greatest possible variety of constituents - Analysis of the volatile phase of different accessions of marjoram - Identification of the enzymes...
Term: 2024-07-01 bis 2026-06-30Optimization of Lamiaceae, a group of medicinal and spice plants grown in Saxony-Anhalt, for the agronomic production of value-added plants for medicinal and nutritional purposes
A molecular breeding program will generate resilient plants with a high yield of essential oils for each of the Lamiaceae species. The breeding process will start with pre-selected material provided by the project partners. The genome and...
Term: 2024-04-01 bis 2028-12-31Sustainably produced vegan vitamin D3 and cholesterol from Nierembergia repens (DiPlanD)
It is planned to identify pedictive cultivars and accessions of N. repens which are rich in 7-dehydrocholesterol (provitamin D3) for vitamin D3 synthesis, but also cholesterol, and to increase the quantities of the aforementioned sterols by...
Term: 2024-04-01 bis 2028-12-31Somatic hybridization in asparagus to transfer Fusarium resistance to cultivated asparagus
Asparagus crown and root rot caused by Fusarium oxysporum is considered a significant disease in Asparagus officinalis that leads to significant yield losses and premature dying of stocks (Asparagus decline). In practice, the problem is exacerbated...
Term: 2023-02-01 bis 2026-12-31Improving the properties, cultivation and utilization of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) by technological progress and breeding
The project aims to evaluate winter-hardy lemon balm seed and to functionalize it for direct sowing. Furthermore, the influence of environmental conditions on the content of secondary metabolites is examined on an analytical and molecular level. For...
Term: 2023-01-01 bis 2025-12-31Analysis, establishment and support of the availability of organic plant propagating material for ornamental plants
In young plant companies, queries and interviews are used to analyze which crops and cultivars are particularly suitable for organic cultivation with regard to the EU organic regulation and their ecological sustainability (transport, cultivation...
Term: 2023-07-15 bis 2026-06-30