Our research projects

One of the most important challenges the modern world is facing is food insecurity, while little progress has been achieved at introducing non-destructive and reliable food quality assesment methods at both pre- and post…

Global radiation and temperature rise cause huge risks for the fruit production already affecting the fruit quality, storability, and increasingly results in food waste. The varying training systems of woody plants and e…

The aim of the joint project is to investigate the suitability of cut grass from extensive or biotope grassland (e.g. FFH mowing meadows) for the seasonal flexibilisation (seasonalisation) of biogas plants. For this purp…

SMART4ALL builds capacity amongst European stakeholders via the development of selfsustained, cross-border experiments that transfer knowledge and technology between academia and industry. It targets CLEC CPS and the IoT…

The aim of the collaborative project is to develop a modularized mobile system, which will enable an initial spatio-temporal high-resolution population monitoring (4D) of insect populations in orchards, in order to imple…

The targeted use of crop protection agents as required according to the occurrence of pests requires sensor-supported monitoring of the crop fields. The project aims to develop sensor-based methods that enable automated …

The project aims at testing the possibilities of non-thermal plasma treatment as applied for the sterilization (direct plasma treatment) and soaking (use of plasma activated water) of hemp seeds within the hemp seed germ…

The term biospeckle refers to an optical phenomenon caused by the dynamic scattering of radiation in the visible and short-wave near infrared on microscopic and submicroscopic particles in living plant and animal tissues…

The aim of the joint project is to evaluate the carbon sink function with a focus on deeper soil layers (> 30 cm) as a function of the rotation length of former short rotation plantations and - after their uprooting - t…

The 3-year CAFIPLA project will radically alter the biomass pre-treatment approach for bio-economy applications. Current biomass use comes at a high cost, either in terms of land use (sugar/starch crops) or energy and ch…