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Effects of agricultural management on soil microorganisms
Project
Project code: JKI-EP-08-2245
Contract period: 01.06.2014
- 31.03.2017
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: microbiology of agricultural soils, soil microorganisms, soil management
Soil microorganisms are of enormous importance for functioning of nutrient cycles and soil fertility. Only a small proportion of soil microorganisms being accessible to cultivation techniques, the recently developed nucleic acid-based analysis methods now allowed new insights into the enormous structural and functional diversity of microorganisms in soils. On the one hand, soil microorganisms are an important resource for bioeconomy (biocontrol or plant growth promoting strains); on the other hand, effects of agricultural management on the structural und functional diversity of soil microorganisms and their consequences for a sustainable soil use can be analysed for the first time. The aim of the bilateral cooperation is to establish a network between existing national or EU-funded research projects (Biospas, PURE) which analyse the effects of soil management (tillage vs no tillage) and crop rotation on soil microorganisms. Comparable experimental designs and similar research questions of both partners and stored total community DNA which was directly extracted from soil and rhizosphere samples will allow better comparisons of results and further analyses with the DNA with methods established in the labs of both partners. Another important aspect is the exchange about analysis methods for large and complex data sets which typically are obtained with next-generation sequencing techniques. We expect from this project enormous synergies and progress in the field of agricultural soils and in geographically very different regions and a contribution to the new research focus 'bioeconomy of soils'.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Soil science
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics (JKI-EP)
