2024

November 4, 2024

World Congress of the Bioeconomy in East Africa GSB2024 Kenya

Global Bioeconomy Summit 2024: Regional Bioeconomy Hub presents bioeconomy in the Rhineland region. At the end of October, the global bioeconomy family came together for the first time outside Europe in Nairobi, Kenya, with 500 participants from 45 countries. The guiding theme: “One Planet - Sustainable Bioeconomy Solutions for Global Challenges”.

October 22, 2024

10th BioSC Spotlight: "Alternative Proteins made from Plants"

High-quality proteins are an essential component of food and animal feed, but are also required as enzymes and for pharmaceutical applications, for example. New sources of proteins may be various plants.

October 21, 2024

Kamingespräch „Strukturwandel“ des Forschungszentrums Jülich – Die Chancen der Bioökonomie im Rheinischen Revier

In den Kommunen werden die Herausforderungen des Strukturwandels im Rheinischen Revier besonders deutlich. Daher ist dem Forschungszentrum Jülich und seiner Vorstandsvorsitzenden Prof. Astrid Lambrecht der enge Austausch und die Abstimmung mit den Landräten und Bürgermeistern der Region so wichtig.

September 25, 2024

PHENET webinar series

The European Research Infrastructures (RI) on plant phenotyping (EMPHASIS), ecosystems experimentation (AnaEE), long-term observation (eLTER) and data management and bioinformatics (ELIXIR) join their forces in the EU funded project PHENET to codevelop next generation of tools, methods for the development of crop varieties, agricultural management practices to face future climatic scenarios across Europe and accompany agroecological transition.

September 23, 2024

PHENET at EGI Foundation Side Event at ICRI 2024

The European Grid Infrastructure, the federation of computing and storage resource providers united by a mission of delivering advanced computing and data analytics services for research and innovation, will host a side event at the International Conference on Research Infrastructures 2024, on Monday, 2 December 2 – 5 pm Brisbane time.

September 27, 2024

PHENET & IPPN Coffee sessions

Announcement of Coffee session series: Are you focusing on plant phenotyping or envirotyping topics in your research and interested in how you can benefit from research infrastructure services in that area?

September 10, 2024

1st Microbes4Climate Newsletter out now

The very first edition of the MICROBES-4-CLIMATE Newsletter was launched, titled “MICROBES-4-CLIMATE, for what, by whom, and where?” This newsletter showcases some of the activities promoted by the project in its first 6 months.

August 22, 2024

Benefits and limits of biological nitrification inhibitors for plant nitrogen uptake and the environment

Nitrate is a pollutant but also a macro-nutrient for plants, and product of nitrification by soil microorganisms. Plants can inhibit nitrification, which reduces N loss to the environment, but not necessarily increases plant N uptake, and a model showed under what conditions.

July 31, 2024

AgroServ Webinar Recording: 2nd Call for TA/VA Projects

The recording of our recent webinar, held on July 4th, is now available. It covers the 2nd Call for TA/VA project applications and includes a Q&A session.

July 30, 2024

“Smart” arnica research at the world's largest horticultural science congress

Researchers from the Circular PhytoRevier bioeconomyREVIER innovation laboratory presented a practical solution for estimating flower development and subsequently measuring the development of active ingredients in medicinal plants

July 30, 2024

BIO2REG Workshop “Circular Bioeconomy in Practice” at Reflex in Düren

The Rhenish mining area is recognized throughout Europe as a model region for the bioeconomy

July 30, 2024

Knowledge communication and transfer: Business illustration can build bridges

How can complex issues be presented in a catchy way and contribute to supporting the dialog between stakeholders from different sectors?

July 29, 2024

2nd Bioeconomy Field Day in the Rhenish mining district

Impressionen vom Agri-Food-Energy Park bei Bürgewald, vormals Morschenich-Alt. Unser Film zum Nacherleben!

July 9, 2024

PHENET Annual General Meeting 2024

The PHENET consortium met for its 2nd Annual General Meeting in Wageningen, 23 – 25 April 2024, to reflect on its achievements generated during the successful 1st year of the project, and to exchange on the future strategy for the next 4 years to come.

July 9, 2024

Announcement: PANGEOS summer school

Announcement: PANGEOS summer school on “Joint uncertainty analysis and protocol standardization assessment summer school on novel and operational hyperspectral data products”

July 9, 2024

MICROBES-4-CLIMATE offers researchers access to Research Infrastructures

MICROBES-4-CLIMATE offers researchers from diverse backgrounds convenient access to a range of top-tier Research Infrastructures and their advanced services to investigate the complex interactions among microbiomes, plants, soil, and the environment.

July 9, 2024

DPPN-Access 2.0: Next call is open

DPPN-Access 2.0 is a follow-up project funded by the BMBF with the overall goal to provide a concerted, long-term and demand-oriented provision of the plant phenotyping facilities at the Research Center Jülich (FZJ), the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben and the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU). A next call for access is open now.

July 9, 2024

Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival 2024 - Let's review it together

For a future in Europe, we need young people above all - at all levels. For the bioeconomy in the Rhenish coal exit region, we want to actively involve young people in realising the potential of the bioeconomy.

July 9, 2024

Announcement: Second Call for AgroServ Projects opens June 27th!

We are pleased to announce the second call for AgroServ projects. AgroServ provides access to services from 12 research infrastructures in Europe to address the challenges of modern agroecology.

July 8, 2024

‘Runner up’ poster price for Kwabena Agyei at ISRR conference 2024

At the 12th Symposium of the International Society of Root Research ’Roots [& Roads] to a sustainable future’, our PhD student Kwabena Agyei won runner-up prize for his poster entitled ’Syndrome "basses richesses" disease induced sectorial distribution of photoassimilates in sugar beet revealed by combined MRI-PET’.

July 8, 2024

Viruses against pathogenic bacteria help plants combat disease

Can Viruses help us grow better plants? A joint task force of plant scientists Ulrich Schurr and Borjana Arsova (IBG-2), microbiologist Julia Frunzke (IBG-1) and joint PhD student Sebastian Erdrich found that bacteria specific viruses can indeed help plant combat bacteria causing plant disease.

July 8, 2024

Research activities of IBG-2 highly visible at the 2nd European Congress on Photosynthesis Research

Five current and former members of IBG-2 (Shoot Dynamics, Alternative Biomass) participated in the 2nd European Congress on Photosynthesis Research (ePS2) in Padua, Italy. With three oral presentations and two poster presentations, IBG-2 was strongly represented and appreciated in the European photosynthesis research community.

May 22, 2024

Root Phenotyping Technology licensed

The so called imaging box for rhizotrons allows non-invasive, manual imaging for the transparent surface of soil-filled rhizotrons

May 6, 2024

FINAL Call for Proposals-NSTDA-JÜLICH - Joint Funding Program

The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and The Institute for Bio- and Geosciences Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany are pleased to announce a call for proposals for NSTDA-JÜLICH Joint Research Program.

April 22, 2024

Sugar beet in MRI (Bild der Wissenschaft)

Crops are now being researched using high-end technology that was previously only used in medicine.

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