Objective Soil microbes play key roles in ecosystems and influence ecosystem processes, including nutrient acquisition, nitrogen cycling, carbon cycling, and soil formation. Soil microbes are the majority in soil and a large portion of the genetic diversity on Earth. Many microbes live in association with plant roots and can promote plant productivity and provide protection against stress and disease. Other microbes acts as pathogens and reduce plant growth. Sound environmental and agricultural practices favour balanced composition of biotic agents population in the rhizosphere. Well balanced micro-organisms population favours colonization of soil and nutrients intake, limits occurrence of pathogens (biotic stress), supports the development of commensal or symbiotic relationship between plant and micro-organisms, with a good tempering effect regarding abiotic stress (good water retention capacity, available macro- and micronutrients). Cultivated soils have been extensively studied. Pristine rhizospheres are less studied although these ecological niches contain important micro-flora and -fauna or help conceive the complex ecological microbes-plant relationship in soil, in the rhizosphere. The purposes of this project are:- to organize cooperation between specialised collections containing microbes isolated from the rhizosphere,- to constitute a common wide-range pool of micro-biodiversity exploitable for research and industry: the Pan-European Rhizosphere resources network (PERN).Collaboration between culture collections having material from West-European ecosystems and Russian Biological Resources Centres having micro-organisms from East-European biotopes will create a coordinated network of combined human expertise and culture collections. The network will offer scientists facilitated access to a wide range of micro-organisms coming from a broad spectrum of ecological zones spread over an extensive geographical range to study and exploit. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology Programme(s) FP7-KBBE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology Topic(s) KBBE.2010.1.4-06 - EU-Russia Partnership initiative in Microbes - Plants Biodiversities – Mandatory Russia - Call: FP7-KBBE-2010-4 Call for proposal FP7-KBBE-2010-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA-CA - Coordination (or networking) actions Coordinator Service Public Fédéral de Programmation Politique Scientifique (Belspo) Address Wtc iii boulevard simon bolivar 30 1000 Bruxelles / brussel Belgium See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Philippe Desmeth (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Belgium EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Place de l universite 1 1348 Louvain la neuve See on map Region Région wallonne Prov. Brabant Wallon Arr. Nivelles Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Stéphane Declerck (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITEIT GENT Belgium EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Sint pietersnieuwstraat 25 9000 Gent See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Saskia Vanden Broeck (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG Switzerland EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Bundeshaus ost 3003 Bern See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Espace Mittelland Bern / Berne Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Marcel Van Der Heijden (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO Italy EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Via giuseppe verdi 8 10124 Torino See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Giovanna Cristina Varese (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUT OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS RAS Russia EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Nauka prospect 5 142290 Pushchino See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Lyudmila Evtushenko (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GENETICS OF MICROORGANISMS THE URAL BRANCH OFTHE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Russia EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Golev street 13 residence 643 614081 Perm See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Irina Ivshina (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTION INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY ANDPHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS Russia EU contribution € 65 270,00 Address Prospekt entuziastov 13 410049 Saratov See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Olga Turkovskaya (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
