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
Cluster of excellence "PhenoRob" receives further funding
It is a huge success for the University of Bonn: in the nationwide excellence competition, all six of the university's existing Clusters of Excellence were selected for further funding on 22 May 2025 and, in addition, both newly applied Bonn cluster initiatives will also receive funding.
Among the clusters to receive further funding is the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence of the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences - the only cluster in Germany in the field of agriculture.
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).
Events
ILR Food and Resource Economics Seminar x PhenoRob Seminar Series
Zoom-Meeting (Meeting-ID:...
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
We are pleased to invite you to our ILR Food and Resource Economics Seminar x PhenoRob Seminar Series. The seminar will take place via Zoom. Please feel free ...
ARTS | Excursion with Cornelia Löhne
Meeting point: Side ...
05:15 PM
Dr. Cornelia Löhne (Custodian) guides the group through the Botanic Gardens of the University of Bonn.
Lecture by Prof. Adrian Dyer
Campus Bonn-Endenich, ...
05:00 PM
Adrian Dyer is a vision scientist interested in the comparative physiology of how different animals evolved their visual capabilities depending on the ecology ...
ARTS | Seminar Series with Silvia Berenice Fischer
Katzenburgweg 5 ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
Lecture series with a focus on knowledge exchange for sustainable development with Silvia Berenice Fischer (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg/ ZEF University of Bonn) ...
Contact
INRES - Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation
Managing Director: Prof. Dr. Eike Lüdeling
Address
Karlrobert-Kreiten-Strasse 13
53115 Bonn