Phytophotonics

Current bioeconomic strategies and increased efforts towards sustainability require an increasing technologisation of biological production processes, plant breeding and plant production. The working group Phytophotonics is therefore dedicated to research and application of optical technologies in plant sciences.

Within the scope of optical phytomonitoring, different plant parameters are recorded contact-free in order to determine the condition of the plants and to investigate their interaction with external parameters. In addition, optical manipulation methods allow targeted ablation or modification of plant tissue, for example to investigate regeneration processes or the development of disorder phenomena, such as russeting of pome fruit.

With this interdisciplinary field of research, the group operates at the interface between plant sciences, physics and engineering.