About our research

Last modified: 09. February 2024

The main research areas of the Institute of Agronomy

• Development of crop production systems for the purpose of mitigating the harmful effects of climate change and increasing food safety and quality
• Characterization and research of plant and soil conditioners
• Nutrient supply and duration experiments, biofortification
• Complex studies of soil life and plants
• Tolerance against abiotic stresses and its increase with plant breeding technologies, as well as in the case of bred varieties
• Development of precise and environmentally friendly cultivation technologies - agricultural digitization - sustainable agriculture
• Analysis of biotic (insect, disease, etc.) and abiotic (heavy metal, heat, drought, etc.) stress effects on forage plants using innovative methods (imaging using CT, MR, biophoton emission measurement, etc.), as well as laboratory evaluation of the physiological consequences of plant stress
• Cenological, production biological and long-term ecofloristic analysis of lawns
• Field and laboratory testing of the nutrient reactions of arable plant cultures
• Cenological research related to large mushrooms
• Breed maintenance and breed improvement breeding (primarily spring and autumn barley, grass species and purple clover)
• Variety comparison experiments (wheat, barley, corn)
• Complex, landscape-specific nutrient supply and agrotechnical experiments using environmentally friendly technologies
• Application of spectral vegetation indices and in vivo field physiological measurements in nutrient supply experiments, variety comparison experiments and plant breeding
• Examining the long-term effect of agrotechnical factors in long-term experiments
• Examination of the effect of biologically derived substances and by-products suitable for replacing artificial fertilizers
• Examination of the effect of microbiological preparations
• Examination of alternative energy crops.