Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS): Recent submissions
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Analyzing Smallholder Farmers Performance - Farmer Typology, Technical Efficiency, Market participation, Policies and Management Practices Evidence from Limpopo Region of South Africa
(2024-02-22)Sub-Saharan Africa's population is projected to grow to almost double its population by mid- century, leading to more demand for food and agricultural products. As the main source of food and livelihood, the agricultural ... -
Effect of carbohydrate composition of the diet and ruminal fluid passage on microbial transformations in the rumen
(2024-02-09)The aim of this study was to investigate certain effects on the microbial crude protein (MCP) production in the rumen and to investigate mechanisms which could promote the ruminal MCP yield to enhance the MCP supply to the ... -
Die Digitalisierung der Milchwirtschaft: Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz und Nutzungsbereitschaft unter Landwirten
(2024-02-02)The advancing process of digitalization, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, has already exerted a multifaceted influence across various domains of life and is characterized as a megatrend of the 21st century. ... -
Aculops lycopersici Tryon (Acari: eriophyoidea) monitoring, control options and economic relevance in German tomato cultivation
(2024-02-02)The tomato russet mite Aculops lycopersici Tryon (Eriophyoidea) is a damaging pest in commercial tomato production in many countries, including Germany. This mite feeds on the surface cells of leaves, stem and fruit. This ... -
Nachhaltigkeitsherausforderungen und Kommunikationsstrategien im Transformationsprozess Landwirtschaft
(2024-01-30)This dissertation, which focuses on sustainability work and sustainability communication in the field of agriculture, seeks to provide contributions on how German agriculture can position itself more sustainably and how ... -
Challenges of the Farmland Market: Essays on the Tension between Financialization and Regulation
(2024-01-18)In the recent decades, the German farmland marked faced enormous price increases. Those price increases caused intensive research. Among others, three streams of thought were especially in focus: farmland price ... -
Objectives, management practices, and perspectives of small-scale private forest owners
(2024-01-11)Climate change and diverse societal demands ranging from resource use and recreation to biodiversity conservation are influencing forests today and have sparked an intensive debate about future forest management. One ... -
Quantitative effects of the abiotic factors temperature and day length on vernalization, flowering time and freezing tolerance of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.).
(2024-01-11)Two important abiotic factors for plants are temperature and day length. Long day and short day are signals that can induce morphological and developmental changes like flower induction. So-called short day plants need a ... -
Analyse des Liquiditätsmanagements in landwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen am Beispiel von niedersächsischen Milchviehbetrieben
(2023-12-08)Dairy farms are increasingly exposed to volatile prices for both milk and input factors in milk pro- duction. Price fluctuations in the world market are more strongly reflected in the EU internal mar- ket than before due ... -
Investigation of the Regulatory Processes of Gene Expression in Animal and Plant Sciences
(2023-12-08)Transcriptional regulation of gene expression in higher organisms is fundamental for numerous biological processes. These processes are mainly controlled by a special class of regulatory proteins, the transcription factors ... -
Geographic Indications as flagship products for sustainable landscape management in the European Union
(2023-12-04)This Ph.D. thesis addresses the broader topic of sustainable landscape management in European agriculture, with a specific focus on the potential of labeling as a tool contributing to achieving such a goal. The cumulative ... -
The effect of global change on multitrophic interactions of sugar beet
(2023-12-01)Global climate change models predict changes in rainfall patterns and rising sea levels, resulting in severe drought and soil salinity, which are already observed in many countries worldwide. Abiotic stressors such as ... -
Breeding for Improved Flavour of Fresh Market Tomatoes: Breeders' Sensory Test and Molecular Markers
(2023-12-01)Until recently, flavour was not a primary breeding target in tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.). However, the poor flavour of tomatoes is a major cause of consumer complains. Flavour results from a complex interaction ... -
Local and landscape threats to bee and wasp populations in agricultural landscapes
(2023-12-01)The transformation and intensified use of the agricultural landscape in central Germany in the past decades has led to the fragmentation and loss of semi-natural habitats, threatening biodiversity including insects. Bees ... -
Produktionsökonomische Analyse von Tierwohlmaßnahmen in typischen Milchviehbetrieben Nordwestdeutschlands
(2023-12-01)Farm animal husbandry is the most important sector of the German agriculture and food industry. With an overall share of 22 percent of the production value of agriculture, milk production is of particularly great economic ... -
Linking crop modelling and experimentation to fully exploit genotypic diversity in barley for climate change adaptation in Europe
(2023-11-28)Summary Future barley production in Europe is projected to face severer and more frequent climate extreme events. Projections have also shown that potential climate-change induced yield losses can be significantly ... -
Beyond the Blemishes
(2023-11-09)A significant amount of food produced worldwide is lost and wasted along the supply chain. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that approximately 13 % of food is lost between harvest ... -
Determination of ammonia emissions in multi-plot field trials to assess optimized application techniques for liquid manure in growing winter wheat
(2023-10-30)Ammonia emissions caused by liquid manure application affect human life expectancy and threaten natural ecosystems. However, other associated concerns like greenhouse gas emissions and nitrate leaching are equally relevant. ... -
Interactions between endophytic Metarhizium brunneum and oilseed rape plants: effects on plant health and possible mechanisms
(2023-10-18)Fungi of the genus Metarhizium, belonging to the order Hypocreales, are well-known entomopathogens that primarily infect insects. However, recent research has revealed their multifunctional lifestyles, including their ... -
Fine-mapping of the major locus for vicine and convicine in faba bean (Vicia faba L.) and application of the findings for winter faba bean breeding
(2023-10-18)Presented here is a thesis on a genetic and breeding project addressing the anti-nutritional seed con-stituents vicin and convicin in faba bean. Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a traditional grain legume of the Old World; ...