Project description
Digging up root microbes
Promising properties from the root microbiome could replace pesticides and fertilisers and revolutionise modern agriculture. However, soil physicochemical complexity and an extraordinarily complex biotic environment create obstacles that need to be addressed with methods of high spatial and temporal resolution. In combination with synthetic bacterial communities this could enable a mechanistic understanding of bacterial establishment in the rhizosphere. In this context, the EU-funded ROOBABAA project will characterise dynamically evolving, distinct micro-niches for bacterial colonisation of the root. Extensive use of the fluorescent microbial marker strains, monitoring of bacterial metabolism, and tracing of proliferation and taxis will be applied to gain the necessary knowledge enabling the successful use of microbial agents in agriculture.
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ERC-2020-ADG
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Funding Scheme
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantHost institution
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
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1015 Lausanne