Platform Plant Protection

The overall aim of this focus group is to work on ways to improve the introduction and use of low risk compounds across agriculture, horticulture and forestry, with the vision of finding new

Climate change and intense global trade results in increasing observed incidences of plant pests and diseases. Emerging and invasive plant pests and pathogens appear more frequent and seems to have

Biological control in crop protection: present challenges and future prospects cajsa.lithell@slu.se Welcome to a half-day symposium on biological control, starting with lunch 12.00 on May 23rd,

The conference is taking place at SLU Ultuna/ Uppsala, 14-15 November 2018 and covers different topics within agriculture, forestry and horticulture. Send in your suggestion (titel, 1-2 explaining

Forest management to mitigate the risk of pest damage charlotta.bergstrom@slu.se Davide Bellone defends his thesis "Forest management to mitigate the risk of pest damage" on April 20 2018. All

Forest management to mitigate the risk of pest damage charlotta.bergstrom@slu.se Davide Bellone defends his thesis "Forest management to mitigate the risk of pest damage" on April 20 2018. All

Here you can find information on plant protection at SLU (mostly in Swedish): Plant protection focus groups Ask a researcher Unit for risk assessment of non-indigenous plant pests Centre for

Plant protection mailing list and newsletter Feel free to sign up to our plant protection mailing list to receive further information from and communicate with plant protection researchers at SLU.

The primary aim of this project is to identify genomic regions for general and host specific virulence of the fungus Neonectria ditissima on different hosts such as apple (Malus domestica) and poplar

The aim of the project is to optimize the effects of cultivation practices on soil seed bank size (= population size), using Alopecurus myosuroides (black-grass; renkavle) as a model species. The

This project develops new techniques to control one of the most severe pests on berries and soft-skinned fruit, the spotted-wing Drosophila, D. suzukii. Control of Drosophila suzukii demands a basic

Platform Plant Protection will support a small number of PhD-students from SLU that want to attend the conference by paying their conference fee. You need to be enrolled as a PhD-student at SLU with