National COST860 Projects - Switzerland

Below are the present projects listed with contact person indicated in brackets:

• Monitoring and control of fusaria and mycotoxins in organic and conventional production of wheat and other cereals (Susanne Vogelgsang)
• Exploiting and enhancing disease resistance in wheat and triticale to stabilitze yield under low-input and organic farming conditions (Fabio Mascher)
• Varietal characteristics and crop diversity of wheat and triticale for low-input cereal production (Arnold Schori)
• Monitoring and improving the baking quality of wheat (Geert Kleijer)
• Plant fitness through colonization by natural occurring beneficial rhizobacteria (Geneviève Défago)
• Selecting wheat varieties for boosting beneficial soil bacteria to stabilize yield and plant health in low-input and organic cropping systems (Monika Maurhofer)
• Optimising the molecular interaction between wheat cultivars and beneficial root-colonising pseudomonads to improve crop health (Christoph Keel)
• Low-input cereal production in long-term organic and integrated farming systems (DOK experiment, Therwil, Switzerland) - 2005-04-13 (Paul Mäder)
• Organic on farm variety trials with cereal species and maize - 2005-04-13 (Hansueli Dierauer)
• Adaptation of reduced tillage in organic farming systems - 2005-04-13 (Alfred Berner)
• Integration of bio-fertilisers (mycorrhiza and PGPR) in a green manure based wheat-pulse rotation - 2005-04-13 (Anja Vieweger)
• Varietal testing of winter wheat under organic and extensive conditions - 2006-04-20 (Lilia Levy)
• Monitoring of wheat and triticale genotypes adapted to low-input and organic production and mixtures - 2006-05-02 (David Schneider)
• Mycorrhizal response and nutrient uptake of old, new and organically bred winter wheat cultivars in low input systems - 2007-03-06 (Isabell Hildermann)

Last revision: 2007-03-06.

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