Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance
Head: Dr. Frank Ordon, PD
Research of the Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance is designed to improve the resistance and tolerance of agricultural and horticultural crops to biotic and abiotic stress.
Today, these two research areas are of vital importance in the light of climate change, consumer protection, protection of natural resources (soil, water, biodiversity), along with safeguarding a highly productive and environmentally sound plant production
Research priorities:
In detail, research of the Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance is focused on:
- Development of efficient screening methods for the detection of resistance or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress
- Evaluation of genetic resources with respect to biotic and abiotic stress and characterisation on the molecular level as a prerequisite for improving resistance/tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress
- Genetic analyses of resistance or tolerance and development of molecular markers for qualitatively or quantitatively inherited traits
- Structural and functional analyses of resistance/tolerance at the genome level
- Development of strategies and methods for a sustainable use of respective resistances or tolerances in plant breeding