Complete overview (A-Z)

Agri-Horti-PV

At our Agri-Horti PV facility, we are researching the impact of solar roofs on crop development

Biomass pretreatment and fractionation

Bench-scale reactor systems for the disintegration and fractionation of plant biomass

BreedFACE

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations will continue to rise, underlining the need to develop novel breeding lines that are adapted to future atmospheric CO2 concentrations [CO2].

Cavity Resonators

Using the cavity resonance physics principle for plant growth analysis

Cell Wall Analytics

Comprehensive Platform to phenotype plant cell walls and to investigate structure and composition of diverse materials

FarmDroid

A solar-powered automated robot for sowing and weeding in the field.

Field-Prophet

Phenotyping platform to measure root traits to support crop production through trait and gene discovery

FieldCop

For field measurements with custom sensor equipment based on a hydrostatically driven small vehicle.

FieldDeer

A mobile robotics platform with modular design and open-source software that can be adapted to different field conditions on a hardware and software basis.

FieldLift

FieldLift offers the unique opportunity to perform combined measurements the canopy based on different imaging and measurement techniques

FieldSnake

Automated driving, diesel-powered bridge for accurate positioning of field phenotyping sensors.

FieldWeasel

Automated driving, electric powered bridge for accurate positioning of field phenotyping sensors.

FLOXbox

FLOX is an automated field spectroscopy device capable of collecting unattended, continuous, long-term measurements of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

GROWSCREEN Chamber

The system enables a wide range of diverse experiments and gives the opportunity to discover the genetic control of shoot traits of model plants

GROWSCREEN Page

The system allows the acquisition of time series of the developing root systems

GROWSCREEN Rhizo

Simultaneous and non-invasive phenotpying of root and shoot growth and architecture of crop plant species grown in soil-filled rhizoboxes

GrowScreen-Rhizo 3

High-throughput phenotyping of root and shoot traits

GrowScreenAgar 1

Plant cultivation in agar-filled plates

GrowScreenAgar 2

Root and shoot phenotyping of agar grown plants

HiDeR

High resolution mapping of the shoot and root compartment.

HyperLab

Hyper lab facilitates facilitates the functional understanding of shoot properties by high resolution imaging spectroscopy.

HyPlant

HyPlant is a high-performance airborne imaging spectrometer for vegetation monitoring developed by the Forschungszentrum Jülich in cooperation with SPECIM Spectral Imaging Ltd (Finland).

HyScreen

HyScreen is used for ground-based measurements of hyperspectral reflectance and Sun Induced Fluorescence.

LIFT

The LIFT provides the opportunity to quantify photosynthetic processes from a distance and can be used as a high –throughput system scanning over crop canopies

Metabolomics

The group operates the metabolomics platform IBG-2

MiniPlots

The facility is equipped with an accurate positioning system moving above the plots allowing automatic measurement with various phenotyping sensors.

Modeling

Modelling of hydrodynamics, light distribution and growth in algal photo-bioreactors

NMR/MRI

Measuring dynamic changes in structural and functional traits of plant and soils.

OpenSimRoot

OpenSimRoot is an open-source, functional–structural plant model and mathematical description of root growth and function

PhenoVein Software Tool

The PhenoVein Software Tool (phenoVein) is a software tool designed for a fast and accurate segmentation and analysis of leaf vein images

Photobioreactors

The ASC runs three different concepts of large-scale photobioreactor systems for research and biomass production of microalgae

Plant Screen Mobile (PSM)

A versatile smartphone-based app for the quantification of plant growth parameters

RoX

RoX is an automated field spectroscopy device capable of collecting unattended, continuous, long-term measurements of spectral reflectance.

SCREEN House

The phenotyping system SCREEN House is used for screening of the shoot structure and function of different mono- and dicotyledonous plant species

Secondary Metabolite analytics

GC and LC MS based platforms for the investigation of secondary plant metabolites and complex organic compounds

Seed Phenotyping

Direct measurements of 3D traits.

Specy

Specy is a small and simple spectroscopy system that relies on the Ocean Optics STS spectrometer module and Arduino based open source hardware.

Stereo Camera

Measuring spatial orientation of individual leaves in a natural canopy using a newly developed 3-D stereo process

Tracer Technologies

Two groups of instruments are applied for the detection of radiotracers.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

We operate a fleet of UAVs (drones) equipped with various sensors.

Last Modified: 03.02.2025