Team Uwe Rascher

Uwe Rascher is head of the research area ‘Shoot Dynamics’ at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Additionally, he is Professor for ‘Quantitative Crop Physiology’ at Bonn University. In his research he combines concepts and knowledge of plant physiology, remote sensing, ecology, global climate change and plant phenotyping. His main expertise is in characterizing photosynthesis using chlorophyll fluorescence, hyperspectral reflectance, gas-exchange, remote sensing and image analysis techniques. In the frame of several interdisciplinary and international collaborations he is using novel remote sensing approaches to better measure photosynthesis and stress, develops novel plant phenotyping concepts, and uses these data to model plant mediated exchange processes from the leaf to the region. This knowledge is applied for a wide range of crops and management systems, including cassava.
Within the cassava source-sink project the group of Uwe Rascher developed a novel UAV based approach to map the 3-dimensional growth dynamics of large cassava fields and they will now move forward to quantify the seasonal dynamics of photosynthetic carbon gain in different cassava lines under the prevailing changing environmental conditions.

Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis / Optical remote sensing / Fluorescence / Crop eco-physiology