SLU Plant Protection Network
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Welcome to join our network on plant protection and plant health! The SLU Plant Protection Network is available to stimulate and support collaborations between staff at SLU's various locations and
SLU Plant Protection Network
We promote and stimulate collaboration between researchers at SLU's different campuses, faculties and departments with the aim to strengthen SLU's profile in plant protection towards the outside
Wild strawberry plants from Europe may contain keys to healthy cultivated strawberries
Wild strawberry plants have a constant companion in the form of a black yeast-like fungus. This yeast acts as a bodyguard and protects the strawberry against various plant diseases. Can the yeast
New bacterial strains show promise for biocontrol of tomato diseases
Researchers from SLU has together with colleagues in Italy identified ten bacterial strains from the tomato core microbiome that show potential for promoting plant growth and controlling diseases.
Plant protection material
Here you can find material that presents SLU's plant protection research and other useful material. Desktop background and posters This illustration is available as a desktop background and as a
Autumn webinar about forest damage
Autumn webinar about forest damage theres.svensson@slu.se SLU Forest Damage Centre invites you to an autumn webinar on 24 October, where you have the chans to listen to our researchers and learn
Call for short-term monitoring projects
The SLU Forest Damage Centre announces a call with focus on monitoring of forest damage. The call is for short-term monitoring projects that focus on method development and will be carried out in
Learning from tradition: Can crop diversity close the organic yield gap?
A team of early-career researchers from SLU’s Department of Crop Production Ecology has secured funding from Ekhagastiftelsen to explore the ecological and nutritional benefits of increasing genetic
Ecological functions in agroecosystems
The Bommarco lab empirically and theoretically explores ecosystem functions in insect-plant-soil food webs in agricultural ecosystems. We apply this to crop production, pest control and pollination.
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Sign up to our email-list and newsletter if you want to stay in contact with other researchers in plant protection at SLU and get information on plant protection activities at SLU. The newsletter
Naga Charan Konakalla receives royal award for research on nano carriers for targeted pesticide delivery
Naga Charan Konakalla has been awarded a prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50-year fund for science, technology and the environment, for his work on virus-like proteins as nano carriers for targeted
Tolerant trees and resilient forests - communicating for change
Tolerant trees and resilient forests - communicating for change cajsa.lithell@slu.se How do we move from fact to impact? Welcome to a workshop on popular science communication for kids and