How can you promote the self-reliance of plants? Researcher Kira Tiedge (Biochemistry and Molecular Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science & Engineering) is trying to find an answer to this question. Plants can naturally produce a whole range of different chemical compounds to cope with difficult situations and to communicate with their environment, for example to attract pollinators and healthy micro-organisms.
But decades of breeding have led to the loss of the great chemical diversity in our modern crops.
Tiedge’s work aims to understand which chemical properties make a plant resilient – and how she
can identify and breed those properties.

Watch the video we made in the greenhouses at Linneausborg.