Platform Plant Protection

Can genetic engineering contribute to more efficient plant breeding in Africa? That is what researchers believe in an SLU-led project that strives for cassava varieties with better nutritional value

Can genetic engineering contribute to more efficient plant breeding in Africa? That is what researchers believe in an SLU-led project that strives for cassava varieties with better nutritional value

Plant protection at SLU - ideas for the future katja.fedrowitz@slu.se Which are the key challenges for future plant protection? How should we at SLU best continue working together and with society

To strengthen the plant protection research at SLU, the vice chancellor has given the SLU Platform Plant Protection the mission and funding to promote and coordinate plant protection research

The SLU Platform Plant Protection is arranging an internal workshop on 9-10 September 2019 with the title "Plant protection at SLU - ideas for the future". All researchers, Postdocs and PhD-students

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To strengthen the plant protection research at SLU, the vice chancellor has given the SLU Platform Plant Protection the mission and funding to promote and coordinate plant protection research

CBC Writeshop: When is it biological control? cajsa.lithell@slu.se The Centre for Biological Control, CBC, arranges a writeshop on the subject "When is it biological control?" SLU researchers

The bark beetle, Ips typographus, is a severe insect pest on Norway spruce and reduce timber quality. Harvesting infected timber is a method that is used to get rid of the pest, but this method has

The bark beetle, Ips typographus, is a severe insect pest on Norway spruce and reduce timber quality. Harvesting infected timber is a method that is used to get rid of the pest, but this method has

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

Population structure and pathogenicity evolution of Phytophthora infestans affects epidemiology and management of late blight disease. maisam.ali@slu.se Anne Njoroge defends her doctoral thesis "