German Phytomedicine Society
- Germany
The German Phytomedicine Society (DPG) is the professional association of practitioners of phytomedicine, as successor to the Association of German Plant Physicians that was based in Berlin from 1928 to 1937.[1] The DPG was founded in 1949 in Fulda. The DPG headquarters is located in Braunschweig.
The society focuses on research of parasites and other growth problems of crop plants, consultancy in the area of Phytomedicine and disease, and measures for health maintenance in plants. It is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection and has participated in the German Plant Protection Conference & the International DPG Berlin Symposium. The DPG has published its findings in the journal PHYTOMEDICINE as well a series titled "SPECTRUM PHYTOMEDIZIN."
The DPG is a member of the Organisation for Plant Protection in Europe and the Mediterranean, German Nation Committee for Biology (DNK), and the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences.
Notable members
- Georg F. Backhaus
- Holger B. Deising
- Falko Feldmann
- Johannes Hallmann
- Johannes A. Jehle
- Manfred G. Raupp
- Kornelia Smalla
- Ralf T. Voegele
External links
- German Phytomedicine Society
- History of the DPG in German
- The DPG Network
- DPG Working Groups
- International Meetings on Phytomedicine Matters
References
- ^ Protocol of the 53rd General Meeting of the German Phytomedicine Society in Freiburg im Breisgau on the 7th of June 2015 as pdf