HortiBonn at the final project meeting "HortiPrimed"

On November 8, 2024, the HortiBonn group participated in the final meeting of the joint research project “HortiPrimed,” hosted by Forschungszentrum Jülich. This gathering brought together project partners and practitioners as the HortiPrimed project funded by BMEL/BÖL approaches the end of its three-year timeline.
The project focuses on investigating and implementing priming strategies for young tomato plants to enhance their resilience against abiotic and biotic stresses in tomato production. The HortiBonn group is a partner, collaborating with institutions in Bayreuth, Geisenheim, Jülich, and Munich.
Dr. Cory Whitney, Jan-Bernd Schulz Lutum, and Sanghyo Moon from the HortiBonn group developed a holistic impact pathway model as part of the project. This model illustrates fundamental interactions and addresses uncertainties in the processes and conditions of applying priming in tomato production.
During the meeting, Sanghyo Moon presented findings from the holistic analysis of the tomato production system and the “Optimal Priming App,” an interactive plattform designed for stakeholders such as farmers and researchers. The app lets users input data and explore research outcomes, including net present value (NPV) distributions and cash flows generated through Monte Carlo simulations.
Over its three-year duration, the project has targeted several objectives: optimizing priming conditions (Forschungszentrum Jülich), assessing the impact of priming on crop yields (Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences), evaluating priming’s efficacy against phytopathogens through bioassays (University of Bayreuth), and investigating molecular mechanisms such as gene expression and DNA/histone methylation associated with priming (Helmholtz Zentrum München).

For more information about this project, please refer to the link below. https://www.gartenbauwissenschaft.uni-bonn.de/projects/hortiprimed/