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Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder caught up on the project stable 4.0 - Integrated Dairy Farming.

Der Traditionsstandort Freising-Weihenstephan sowie die Breite und Vielfalt der agrarwissenschaftlichen Forschung an der Technischen Universität München (TUM) überzeugen immer mehr Studieninteressierte: Zu Beginn des Wintersemesters 2022/2023 verzeichnet die TUM sehr erfreuliche Entwicklungen der Studierendenzahlen. Bei den Erstsemestern ist der Bachelorstudiengang Agrarwissenschaften und Gartenbauwissenschaften beliebt und beschert der TUM eine Steigerung von über 140 Prozent an Bewerbungen.…

Sustainable food production requires knowledge of the entire system and new approaches and methods. Alternative methods in food production allow cultivation with less negative impact on the environment. In particular, a focus on ecological practices as well as urban production systems are proposed as solutions to current challenges. Considering the whole system allows for increasing resource efficiency (e.g., water, nutrients) and increasing the role of biodiversity in providing ecosystem…

How can we use innovative production systems to supply the growing world population with healthy, nutritious and sustainably produced food? This question was the focus of the event "Vertical Farming - everything under one roof", organized by the Hans Eisenmann-Forum (HEF) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), together with the Competence Center Digital Agriculture Bavaria (KneDL)/BayernInnovativ, the TUM Food & Agro Center for Innovation and the TUM Venture Labs.

On March 16, 2022, the event "Vertical Farming - everything under one roof" will take place here on the Weihenstephan campus.

The Joseph Schepkens Prize in Plant Genetics, Thirty-third Triennium, was awarded to HEF member Mr. Gerd Patrick Bienert, Professor of Plant Physiology, for his contribution to the characterization of water and metalloid transport in plants.

Feeling the heat: Steroid hormones contribute to the heat stress resistance of plants - Plants, like other organisms, can be severely affected by heat stress. To increase their chances of survival, they activate the heat shock response, a molecular pathway also employed by human and animal cells for stress protection. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now discovered that plant steroid hormones can promote this response in plants.

Dr. Ursula Dawo and Dr. Manfred Meyer receive a price for their teaching.

Three members of the Hans Eisenmann Forum are among the most cited in their field as shown by the current publication analysis "Highly Cited Researchers 2021".