THE IGZ AT THE INTERNATIONAL GREEN WEEK 2025

BMEL-Hall 23a | Sustainable vegetable production

Research for sustainable vegetable production

Conservative soil cultivation with strip-till in organic horticulture

At the International Green Week 2025, the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) presents its research on sustainable plant-based agri-food systems in the field of organic open-field vegetable cultivation exemplified by the ‘BioStripPlant’ project.

In the Programme Area ‘Next-Generation Horticultural Systems ’ (HORTSYS) , we develop innovative management strategies for sustainable resource use and adaptation to climate change using model-based decision support systems (DSS) for horticulture. The HORTSYS 1 research group focuses on ‘field cultivation systems’. At the end of 2024, the junior research group HORTSYS.JR ‘Organic Horticultural Systems’ was established to further explore this topic.

In the EIP-Agri-funded project ‘BioStripPlant - Conservation tillage in organic vegetable production’, a method of conservation tillage, the strip-till method, was tested in practice and scientifically evaluated using various mulch variants in horticulture.

Do you have any questions? Please contact us!

Project overview BioStripPlant on the IGZ website

Project blog BioStripPlant on the leadpartner's agrathaer GmbH website

Practical Guide BioStripPlant (German)

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We offer Bachelor and Master Theses!

Are you interested in the IGZ's key research areas and looking for a Bachelor's or Master's thesis? We offer theses for committed students on the topic of ‘Peat replacement in horticulture’. You can find more information on the current ‘ToSuGa’ project here.

Send an e-mail to Dr André Sradnick with a short CV, the period in which you would like to write your thesis and the project you are interested in.

Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops

Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau

The Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) conducts basic plant research with a view to possible uses for vegetable and ornamental plants and the use of plant biodiversity.

The IGZ contributes to a better understanding of plants and their interactions with the environment, and uses this knowledge to develop sustainable management systems in horticulture. Our research is positioned at the interface of plants, humans and the environment.

Our scientific expertise covers the full spectrum from plant molecular physiology and biochemistry, human nutrition and food security, to horticultural production systems.

This provides a diverse and interdisciplinary scientific environment where current problems in agri-food systems can be addressed across multiple levels of observation: from the basic molecular, cell and organismic levels to the more applied individual, sectoral and global levels.