WG3: Plant-soil interactions
Working Group Leader: Fabio Mascher,
Cereal Breeding, Agroscope, CH
This group will study the interactions in the triangle: cereal varieties –
soil – root-associated microorganisms. Within this framework, two main questions
will be addressed: (i) How do cereal genotypes absorb and use nutrients
efficiently under low-input conditions? (ii) What role do cereal - associated
microbes (bacteria, mycorrhiza etc.) play to enhance nutrient acquisition and
control pathogens, thus contributing to yield stability? These activities will
lead to improved breeding methods for the production of cereal varieties
particularly adapted to low-input and organic production systems.
Available documents:
Later minutes etc. are only available on the
Intraweb (requires
password).
Last revision:
2007-01-22.
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