About us - old
We conduct research and provide academic teaching in the domains of plant breeding, ecophysiology and the production of healthy plants and crops in dynamic and socially accepted cropping systems.
Topics
- Integrated crop protection
- Eco-effcient and sustainable production systems, growth and prediction models
- (Eco)physiology and agroecology
- Sensor technology, technical and biotechnical innovations in breeding, propagation, multiplication and production of plants and crops in open feld, in glasshouses and in vitro
Impact
- Sustainable production of plants and crops for a wide array of end uses
- Training science-based plant and crop specialists with open, critical minds and engineers’ attitudes
Academic staff
| Kris Audenaert | Plant pathology, mycology, mycotoxins, phytotoxins |
| Benny De Cauwer | Crop husbandry, weed science, integrated weed management |
| Patrick De Clercq | Entomology, acarology, biological and integrated control of crop pests |
| Eduardo de la Pena | |
| Emmy Dhooghe | |
| Danny Geelen | Plant research: in vitro biotechnology, breeding, propagation, sexual reproduction, space applications |
| Geert Haesaert | Crop production, plant breeding and crop protection, toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins |
| Monica Höfte | Plant pathology, molecular plant-pathogen interactions, biological and integrated control of plant diseases |
| Wouter Maes | Precision agriculture, UAV research, remote sensing, data processing |
| Steven Maenhout | |
| Jan Pieters | Thermic processes, heat and mass transfer, energy, agricultural engineering |
| Pieter Spanoghe | Formulation, application and analysis of pesticides, (side) effects of pesticides, exposure assessment of man and environment |
| Kathy Steppe | Eco-physiology, plant-water relations, carbon metabolism and respiration, plant monitoring and stress detection with plant sensors, plant modelling, development of plant-based control strategies, effects of climate change on the physiology of plants, trees and ecosystems |
| Luc Tirry | Agrozoology, entomology, acarology, insecticide resistance, integrated pest control of animal-noxious agents |
| Thomas Van Leeuwen | Molecular acarology and genomics, insecticide resistance, molecular mite-plant interactions, new insecticide target-sites |
| Stefaan Werbrouck | Horticulture, in vitro culture of plants (especially trees), in vitro breeding of plants |
Former academic staff
| Dirk Reheul | Agronomy: crop husbandry, grassland and ley-arable farming. Plant breeding: methods and techniques, variety development, plant breeders’ rights. Plant physiology and sustainable systems. |
| Patrick Van Damme | Tropical and subtropical agriculture and ethnobotany, domestication of medicinal plants, development cooperation and rural development, micro-fnancing systems, integrated and sustainable development, biodiversity and agroforestry |
| Marie-Christine Van Labeke | Crop physiology, abiotic stress, light quality (LED) and plant response, sustainable production |