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SCIENTIFIC EVENT: SPSW Summer School 2013 – Plant Volatiles:from lab bench to application

SPSW Summer School September 9-12, 2013, in Les Diablerets, Switzerland

SCIENTIFIC EVENT: PSC Science & Policy Summer School: Governing the Transition to a Bio-based Economy

Still places available for the PSC Science & Policy Summer School from 20-23 August, 2013, in Einsiedeln Switzerland

Current Research Topics in the SPSW

Cassava biotechnology research

Crop Improvement

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is an important starchy food crop in the tropics and subtropics. Our cassava p...

Environmental sciences

Environmental Sciences

My research is at the interface between plant biology and ecotoxicogenomics. I explore plant’s response from genes thr...

Improve nutrient-use efficiency in agro-ecosystems

Plant Nutrition

 

One of the challenges of this century is to sustainably meet the needs of the growing world population. Increased food...

Molecular aspects of pathogenesis in plants

Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions

We are interested in the molecular determinants of fungal pathogenesis and their possible interactions with eleme

Plant genetic networks – from databases to computational modeling

Functional Genomics

Using a systems biology approach, we are modeling biochemical pathways and regulatory processes that affect plant functi...

The cereal genomes: hidden treasures for evolutionary genomics and agronomy

Plant Molecular Biology

We are studying the genomes of the grass species wheat, barley and rice to analyze genome evolution in cereals. Plant ge...

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