Topics for Bachelor- and Master-Theses 2015/2016
Prof. Dr. S. Gruber, Dr. Sabine Zikeli, Prof. Dr. W. Claupein, Institute 340a
Sabine.Gruber@uni-hohenheim.de, Tel. 0711 459 22371
Updated Oct. 16th, 2015
Topics: Organic farming, lentils, soy, rapeseed, conservation tillage, seed dormancy,
renewable resources, medicinal plants and spices, mustard, cultivation of “new traditional”
crops, cultivation of wild plants, allelopathy, effect of woodchips, cereals etc.
Student topics and ideas are to be discussed with S. Gruber. Please contact
Sabine.Gruber@uni-hohenheim.de
Lentils (in Organic farming)
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Mixed cropping of lentils and peas – a unique mixture tested via field trail in
Kleinhohenheim.
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Weed suppression in lentils via adapted sowing densities. Field trial in
Kleinhohenheim.
General Organic Farming
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Organically produced rapeseed – Perspectives and limits of cultivation (literature
review).
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Perspectives for poppy in organic agriculture (quality, yield, ecology); interviews with
practitioners, literature review.
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Perspectives for the production of walnut oil and other walnut products in organic
agriculture (quality, yield, ecology), literature review.
Agro-Ecology
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Seed distribution on fields and grasslands – Ways of distribution, amounts and
consequences. Literature review, practical aspects at a later date.
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Allelopathic effects of wood chips: Effects of e.g. quantity, cultivar,
incorporation on the germination and growth of weeds and crops; greenhouse;
possible field trial. Examinations of weeds in short-rotation coppice plantations.
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Effects of short rotations in soy on cultivar-specific allelopathy, diseases, pests
and abundance of rhizobia. Literature review.
Conservation tillage
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Erosion protection in Organic Agriculture: Strip-tillage and undersowing in cultivation of white
cabbage: Comparison of strip-till and undersowing-methods by a common alternative method
without soil cover in white cabbage cultivation at Hohenheim; soil analyses (Nmin), assessments
on the field and survey on yields.