MYCORRHIZAL TECHNOLOGY IN AFFORESTATION OF MARGINALLY ECONOMIC LAND

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: MA1B0085

Project closed

Start date 1 February 1988

End date 31 January 1991

Funded under

• Research programme (EEC) on materials (raw materials and advanced materials), 1986-1989

Total cost € 0,00

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

FORESTRY COMMISSION RESEARCH AGENCY
United Kingdom

Objective

TO DEVELOP PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES AND ASSESS THEIR VALUE FOR INOCULATING FOREST TREE SEEDLINGS WITH SELECTED MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI.

SELECTION AND ISOLATION OF MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; OPTIMIZATION OF CULTURES; INOCULUM PRODUCTION AND FORMULATION; ASSESSMENT OF SITE INFECTION POTENTIAL; ASSESSMENT OF RECEPTIVITY OF SITE SOILS; SITE PREPARATION; INOCULATION OF SEEDLINGS FOR MAIN STUDY; COMPARISON OF CONTAINER AND BRE-ROOT SEEDLING INOCULATION; FUMIGATION STUDIES; PROTECTION AGAINST PATHOGENS; OUTPLANTING OF INOCULATED SEEDLINGS; MYCORRHIZAL ASSESSMENT OF SEEDLINGS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE FIELD ASSESSMENT;

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology › mycology

Programme(s)

• FP1-RAWMAT 3C - Research programme (EEC) on materials (raw materials and advanced materials), 1986-1989

Topic(s)

Data not available

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

FORESTRY COMMISSION RESEARCH AGENCY

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Alice Holt Lodge, Wrecclesham ; FARNHAM ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

NERC Institute of Terrestrial Ecology

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Edinburgh Research Station Bush Estate ; EH26 0QB Penicuik
• Total cost: No data