Agricultural and Forestry Science

25 years after Lothar: How the windstorm rebuilt the forest

On the morning of December 26, 1999, the winter storm “Lothar” swept across Switzerland, knocking down around 14 million cubic meters of wood, three times the annual logging volume. WSL…

Satellite image showcasing humus changes and soil fertility monitoring.

Humus Observation from Space: A Giant Peek into Mankind

The humus content of soils is one of the most important indicators of soil fertility. Detecting humus changes by sampling soils is very time-consuming and expensive. A new method enables…

New smart agriculture technology for monitoring plants

With growing concerns over climate change and overpopulation, we urgently need to boost agricultural productivity. With the goal of creating a way to easily tell whether a plant is thriving…

Healthy Crops team supports regional solutions in East Africa

New approaches in the fight against bacterial rice disease. An international research team, the “Healthy Crops” consortium, has developed rice varieties resistant to a detrimental crop disease in East Africa…

Conservation Tillage for Sustainability

EIP Project “BioStripPlant” Successfully Concludes. On Thursday, 28 November 2024, the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) hosted the final event of the “BioStripPlant” project. Funded by the…

Making high-yielding rice affordable and sustainable

Plant biologists show how two genes work together to trigger embryo formation in rice. Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, but most farmers…

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