The meeting was the first occasion to share the mission of the Centre, focused on the deepening of knowledge of the adaptive responses of cultivated plant species to different abiotic and biotic stress factors that can affect plant health. This knowledge is fundamental to the development of innovative approaches/solutions to meet agricultural challenges that are approaching also in South Tyrol (in terms of food security & more sustainable agriculture). 

The meeting fired the starting shot for the collaboration between the Competence Centre for Plant Health and the Research Centre Laimburg. Indeed, the Competence Centre aims at bundling and networking multidisciplinary competences to realize professional synergies and to guarantee a substantial contribution to a future sustainable agriculture in South Tyrol.

In the picture, from left to right Dr. Michael Oberhuber (Director of the Laimburg Research Centre), Prof. Tanja Mimmo (Director of the Competence Centre for Plant Health), Dr. rer. nat. Sabine Öttl, (Group leader Phytopathology, Laimburg Research Centre), Dr. Klaus Marschall (Head of Institute for Plant Health, Laimburg Research Centre ), Prof. Fabrizio Mazzetto (member of the Competence Centre for Plant Health) , Dr. Manfred Wolf (Group leader Entomology, Laimburg Research Centre)