IPM AND PLANT DISEASE MANAGEMENT
Within the research theme IPM and plant health, we have projects on biological and ecological processes of importance for a healthy crop. Our research spans from interactions at the molecular level to pathogen populations and microbial communities.
Spore trap in a potato field (photo by Björn Andersson).
Integrated pest management (IPM) means that the problems with plant diseases, insects and weeds are handled by combining agronomic measures with biological and, as a last resort, chemical control. The goal is an economically and environmentally sustainable production of healthy and high quality crops. Our research aims at a better understanding of plant pathogens - their biology and factors that stimulate or suppress them.
A research network is established at the Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, including projects dealing with essential elements of IPM in wheat and potato.
Our projects
Development of plant diseases in future cropping systems with maize and winter wheat
Contact: Hanna Friberg
Effects of the preceding crop and reduced tillage on soil and root associated microbial communities
Contact: Hanna Friberg and Dan Funck Jensen
Importance of crop residues for the survival of plant pathogenic fungi
Contact: Hanna Friberg and Dan Funck Jensen
IPM wheat – a research network
Contact: Björn Andersson, Anna Berlin, Annika Djurle, Hanna Friberg, Magdalena Grudzinska-Sterno, Dan Funck Jensen and Jonathan Yuen
Mapping of resistance to septoria tritici blotch in wheat and interactions with environment.
Contact: Annika Djurle
Project Leaf Microflora
Contact: Hanna Friberg
Project OSCAR
Contact: Hanna Friberg