• Finding answers to questions of planning, method, and analysis of experiments dealing with plant protection remedies against crop pests
• Promoting scientific work by presenting new procedures and methods to minimize the output of herbicides and pesticides
• Discussing current topics of integrated plant protection systems
• Cooperation with working groups of related thematic topics

• Pests as a cause for crop quality deficiencies
• Symptomatology and diagnosis of crop pests
• Strategies of infestation reduction in the field
• Evolution of pest populations in times of climatic change
• Pesticide resistance of pathogens
• Economic relevance of protection strategies

Our working goup cooperates with representatives of the Julius Kühn-Institute, State plant protection agencies, industries, and universities.