The Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation
was founded in 2005 by a consolidation of several institutes with the goal of coordinating and focusing research and teaching in the field of crop production and resource conservation.
The research of the 15 professors and several independent research groups is directed at a wide field ranging from soil science, microbiology, plant pathology, molecular physiological basis of stress resistance, functional genome analyses, plant breeding and crop production.
News
Caroline Marcon and Frank Hochholdinger received the cooperator award of the Maize Genetics Cooperation
Frank Hochholdinger, professor for Crop Functional Genomics at the INRES and Carolin Marcon, project leader of the BonnMu group, were honored with the 2025 Maize Genetics Cooperator Award by the Maize Genetics Cooperation at the 67th maize genetics conference in St. Louis, USA.
Field trail in Madagascar
After all the preparations had been made, our group from INRES - Crop Functional Genomics consisting of Dr. Zhihui Wen, Dr. Xiaoming He, Ben Wilhelm Braun and Alena Albrecht left Bonn for Madagascar in February. At the airport in Frankfurt we met two colleagues from the IPK in Gatersleben, Dr. Ivan Lopez-Valdivia and Dr. Matias Schierenbeck and together we started our journey to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
DMK and DBG awards for Cay Schäfer
Cay Schäfer was awarded the DMK (Deutsches Maiskomitee) Prize for Young Scientists 2024 for her master's thesis “Crosstalk between the micronutrient boron and the phytohormone auxin on the level of polar auxin transport during primary root development of maize (Zea mays)”. In addition, her master thesis was selected as best master thesis in Plant Sciences at the University of Bonn in 2024 by the DBG (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft). The master thesis was done in the Department Crop Functional Genomics in the project group Boron Deficiency (Dr. Michaela Matthes).
Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn adopts new name
What has been known up until now as the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn is being renamed the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional, and Engineering Sciences with immediate effect. The faculty is taking this step in order to better reflect the specialist fields that it covers by giving equal weight to the nutritional and engineering sciences alongside the agricultural sciences.
Events
Inaugural lecture by Matthias Wissuwa
Main building
11:15 AM
At the Dies Academicus Dr. Matthias Wissuwa will give his inaugural lecture on: "Gene banks preserve the crop genetic diversity for future use – but how to ...
ARTS | Seminar Series with Riccardo Bocci
Zoom conference (ID: ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Lecture series with a focus on knowledge exchange for sustainable development with Riccardo Bocci
(Rete Semi Rurali (Rural seeds network, Italy)) on “The role ...
ARTS | Seminar Series with Elina Hafer
Katzenburgweg 5 ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Lecture series with a focus on knowledge exchange for sustainable development with Elina Hafer
(Transfer Center enaCom, University of Bonn) on “Promotion of ...
ARTS | Seminar Series with Lisa Biber- Freudenberger
Katzenburgweg 5 ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Lecture series with a focus on knowledge exchange for sustainable development with Lisa Biber- Freudenberger (ZEF, University of Bonn/ IPBES Expert) on “The ...
Contact
INRES - Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation
Managing Director: Prof. Dr. Eike Lüdeling
Address
Karlrobert-Kreiten-Strasse 13
53115 Bonn