Research

In order to improve the quality of their products steadily and to enlarge the knowledge base about the complex interactions between plants and microbes, ABiTEP GmbH is an active partner in national and international research projects:

Projects

1. Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (Central innovation program of medium-sized businesses, ZIM)
   Development of highly efficient organic products for an eco-friendly and sustainable quality and yield assurance in market gardening, Development of a new root associated bacterium to be used as plant strengthening agent, Comparative studies in host specificity of bacteria isolates using the example of asparagus pathogens in the Fusarium group
   http://www.zim-bmwi.de/kooperationsprojekte
2. Development of biological tools for plant strengthening to be used in Chinese agriculture (funded by BMBF, PTJ )
   Collaborative project together with Humboldt University Berlin and Chinese partners; time period: 2007-2010
   http://www.chinapgp.net
3. GenoMik-Plus (funded by BMBF, PTJ, Functional genome research on bacteria; cluster secondary metabolites) aimed to develop Bacillus metabolites for application in plant protection; time period: 2006-2009
   www.genetik.uni-bielefeld.de/genomikplus
4. PRO INNO II (funded by BMWI/AIF) KU0388001GS6
   Collaborative project together with industrial partners with the objective to develop a technology and plant for mobile cleansing of tanks for transportation of food with enviromental friendly cleansing materials and biological decontamination of wash water, time table: 2006-2008
   www.forschungskoop.de
5. Bactofruct (funded by the EU under contract number CRAFT 512622) with the objective to develop a sustainable biological pesticide against fire blight; time period: 2004-2006
   ec.europa.eu

• "Rehabilitation of degraded land ecosystem in Qinling-Bashan montainous area in Sothern Shaanxi Province, China" (Institute of Forestry TU München)
  http://w3.forst.tu-muenchen.de/~waldbau
• "Innovative nitrogen management technologies to improve agricultural production and enviromental protection in intensive Chinese agriculture" (coordination by researchers of TU Braunschweig)
  http://www. nitrogen-management.org

The active research policy of ABiTEP GmbH and its forerunner FZB Biotechnik GmbH is documented in numerous application reports and peer reviewed research papers .