Horticultural crop pathology?group is specialised in:

• The efficacy and selectivity evaluation of:- fungicides (fruit and berry crops, vegetables);

  – plant growth regulators (strawberries);

  – non-traditional fertilizers, plant growth promoters (fruit and berry crops, vegetables);

• The diagnosis of plant diseases and identification of the causal agents;
• The observations?and monitoring of the fruit and berry diseases;
• The biology and epidemiology studies of the most important fruit and berry crop pathogens (e.g. Venturia inaequalis, Venturia pirina, Colletotrichum acutatum, Monilinia spp., Podosphaera spp. and Phomopsis spp.);
• The development of integrated and biological control methods of plant diseases in fruit, berry and vegetables production;
• Disease forecasting (Venturia inaequalis by RIMpro).