37th BioSC Lecture 

Lene Lange, LL-BioEconomy, Research & Advisory, DK

"New knowledge, molecular, microbial and bioinformatics, for more resilient crop plants"

September 23, 2026 | 14:00 h - 15:30 h | Geb. 06.2, Room 406, Forschungszentrum Jülich 

New developments in EU regulatory: New genome technologies approval opens for speedy developments of new potato varieties, to keep pace with resistance-building in potato late blight, and at the same time overcome risk of pesticide residues in potato tuber-derived products. NGT to be used for other vegetatively propagated crop plants, controlling fungal, bacterial and viral diseases?

Presenting the new FIND IT breeding technology for cereals (and yeasts). Unfolding the new perspectives and possible uses of Traitomics (a new *omics-technology). New insight in interaction between crop plants and their fungal and bacterial pathogens by using the new CUPP tool; a peptide-based enzyme function prediction method, describing the composition of the pathogen/plant interaction-secretome. In the light of climate change challenged agriculture, studying possible microbiome/bacterial interaction with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi -if we know it, we may be able to strengthen the robustness of the crop plants. Also here, can the CUPP method be used to elucidate this symbiotic interaction.

Is it time to grow a new fodder-crop in EU? Preferably a methane-reducing animal feed? A new concept will be described -for discussion.

Ukraine is the largest exporter of sunflower seed, I have an idea for a collaborative project with Ukraine to help their sunflower cultivation to be even stronger than before the war.

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