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We are very happy to announce a new paper by our alumni Leonie Netter. The paper is based on her MSc Thesis and was written together with her supervisors Prof. Dr.

The Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation is looking to fill as of 1st March 2022, the position of a Research Associate in the project “Robotic Manipulation in Horticulture - From Pruning to Harvesting”.

On December 10th 2021 our PhD candidate Marius Rütt successfully defended his thesis entitled “Decision analysis and hyperspectral imaging to support farmers in ornamental heather production”. Throughout his PhD-journey, Marius was supervised by Prof.

On the 3rd of December 2021, our PhD candidate Jan Ellenberger successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Sensor-based phenotyping of plant’s physiological stress responses to abiotic stress”. The hybrid defense took place in the lecture hall of the INRES Department of Horticultural Science of the University of Bonn.

Yerba maté consumption is common in parts of South America; but did you know that Syria is the world’s second-largest importer of this drink?

A new study by authors from the University of Bonn in collaboration from the Reseach Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Switzerland, and the Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) in Kenya.

Monitoring the vitality status of plants is crucial for heather farmers to produce high quality ornamentals. Here, we provide an open-access study to show how we developed our adjustable setup to measure thousands of heather plants over 14 weeks.

Understanding how temperature regulates phenology in temperate fruit trees remains a challenge. In this study, we established the agroclimatic requirements, chilling and forcing needs, for 20 sweet cherry cultivars from North America breeding programs.

Predicting the phenology of temperate fruit tree species is an important challenge in horticulture. How the date of budbreak depends on accumulation of so-called chill and heat has been under study for well over a century. At the University of Bonn, a team of researchers from the HortiBonn group and the Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik has now produced a modeling framework that combines state-of-the-art capabilities in chill and heat modeling to predict bloom dates.

In the afternoon of the 27th of April, and after the opening words of the chairman Prof. Dr. Mathias Becker, our PhD candidate Dr. Eduardo Fernández defended his doctoral work titled “Dormancy in temperate fruit trees - Perspectives for farming in changing climate.