Overcoming Replant Disease by an Integrated Approach

A joint research project of the BMBF research initiative BonaRes - Boden als nachhaltige Ressource (Soil as a sustainable resource)

SUBPROJECT:
The role of risk behaviour and risk perception in the adoption of novel measures for the control of replant disease in apple
 

The Department of Ornamental Horticulture maintains a Pelargonium collection, which is used as a research object and to support teaching. The Pelargonium collection comes from Prof Dr Frank Pohlheim (formerly Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Before his retirement, he handed over the collection to the HTW Dresden in 2018. Since 1 April 2018, the HTW has thus been the genus-specific collection-holding partner of the Pelargonium sub-network of the gene bank for vegetatively propagated ornamental plants. The collection consists of approx. 50 Pelargonium accessions, including mutations of Pelargonium x hortorum 'Kleiner Liebling'. There is material with different ploidy levels and different flower and leaf shapes.