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Introduction
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Welcome to the website of
the Department of Plant Production. The department is hosted
at the faculty of Bio-engineering at the University of Ghent.
We aim to contribute to the improvement of production and reproduction
of crops and agricultural important plant species to the benefit
of the society at large. There are four units active within
the department, that embrace different agriculturaly important
research area's: in vitro biology, horticulture, plant breeding,
sustainable crop production, weed science, botanical diversity
and ethnobotany.
In vitro biology and horticulture focuses on technology that
enables the efficient clonal propagation of a variety of plants
including woody, ornamental and medicinal species. The agronomic
important traits of these plants are evaluated. Plants with
novel or improved properties are selected after hybridisation
or obtained through genetic engineering.
The plant breeding research focuses on the improvement of germplasm
and the development of new varieties of some major crops and
some orphan crops. We consider plant breeding as an important
tool to underpin sustainable crop production systems.
The unit weed science covers topics as the biology and control of important
weeds, the development of resistance to herbicides and resistance
management.
The Ethnobotany section aims to analyse and evaluate the production
of crops in of tropical and subtropical area's.
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