Team
Management
![Moritz Knoche](/typo3temp/focuscrop/70fc9f617f5ee0020eba711615efb1e90efe6c37-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
![Moritz Knoche](/typo3temp/focuscrop/70fc9f617f5ee0020eba711615efb1e90efe6c37-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
General Management
![Peter Grimm-Wetzel](/typo3temp/assets/_processed_/d/4/csm_69e69cadb9ee544bff7b372623794317ccbc2d4a-fp-3-2-0-0_7d6a825535.jpg)
![Peter Grimm-Wetzel](/typo3temp/focuscrop/69e69cadb9ee544bff7b372623794317ccbc2d4a-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
Professors
![Moritz Knoche](/typo3temp/focuscrop/70fc9f617f5ee0020eba711615efb1e90efe6c37-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
![Moritz Knoche](/typo3temp/focuscrop/70fc9f617f5ee0020eba711615efb1e90efe6c37-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
Research Staff
Doctoral Candidates
Administrative/Technical Staff
![Marcel Pastwa](/typo3temp/focuscrop/05c00d6f003a5f487abcec1240859f1435194947-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
![Marcel Pastwa](/typo3temp/focuscrop/05c00d6f003a5f487abcec1240859f1435194947-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
![Simon Sitzenstock](/typo3temp/focuscrop/33d8b2c165525a21eb69bd948a8e6f437aab1ab1-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
![Simon Sitzenstock](/typo3temp/assets/_processed_/f/e/csm_33d8b2c165525a21eb69bd948a8e6f437aab1ab1-fp-3-2-0-0_bac288a8a4.jpg)
![Hana Weiß](/typo3temp/focuscrop/d8425f6d13aea5fb54c7eabce4f0b4927b840ba6-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
![Hana Weiß](/typo3temp/focuscrop/d8425f6d13aea5fb54c7eabce4f0b4927b840ba6-fp-3-2-0-0.jpg)
In research and in teaching, we deal with the physiology of fruit, its production and its storage. The wide-ranging research topics include basic research on the causes and mechanisms of relevant fruit disorder phenomena. Based on this knowledge we develop application-oriented strategies appropriate to breeders, and also to producers. We work on field/greenhouse production problems central to the growing of fruit. Examples include the cracking of soft fruits, the russeting of pome fruits and various cultivar-specific disorders such as skin-spot in ‘Elstar’ apple, neck-shrivel in plum and orange-peel disorder in cherry. These production problems are of considerable economic importance to horticulture, regionally (skin-spot) or globally (cracking, russeting).
In research and in teaching, we deal with the physiology of fruit, its production and its storage. The wide-ranging research topics include basic research on the causes and mechanisms of relevant fruit disorder phenomena. Based on this knowledge we develop application-oriented strategies appropriate to breeders, and also to producers. We work on field/greenhouse production problems central to the growing of fruit. Examples include the cracking of soft fruits, the russeting of pome fruits and various cultivar-specific disorders such as skin-spot in ‘Elstar’ apple, neck-shrivel in plum and orange-peel disorder in cherry. These production problems are of considerable economic importance to horticulture, regionally (skin-spot) or globally (cracking, russeting).