Tag Archives: mycorrhiza
EcolChange seminar (30th September, Thursday): Leho Tedersoo about the global patterns in plant and fungal endemicity
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Leho Tedersoo is a Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies at the University of Tartu. He is one of the Highly Cited Researchers, being an author of multiple papers that rank in the … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar: Marcel van der Heijden about microbiome engineering for a sustainable agriculture
Seminar of the Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Marcel van der Heijden is a professor at the University of Zurich and at the Swiss Centre of excellence for agricultural research Agroscope. In his research Prof. van der … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Siim-Kaarel Sepp about soil biota and land use
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Siim-Kaarel Sepp is a PhD student at the Plant Ecology workgroup of our Department of Botany. His research focuses on mycorrhizal fungi, in particular the impact of land use … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – John Davison about the niches of mycorrhiza
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. John Davison is senior researcher at the Plant Ecology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Tartu. His research addresses the role of biotic interactions in shaping biodiversity. Title … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Alexandre Fruleux about belowground interactions in the forests
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Alexandre Fruleux is Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Botany, Tartu University in the team of adaptive ecology of agricultural landscapes (led by Dr. Jaan Liira). Title of the talk: … Continue reading
New publication – Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition determines the competitive response of two grassland forbs
Anyone can name at least a couple of factors affecting plant growth, be it climate (drought, flooding, hail) or the presence of organisms feeding on plants (birds, insects, mammals, or plant diseases). Some might even think of the nutrients found … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Guillermo Bueno about plant mycorrhizal traits
Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Guillermo Bueno is research fellow at the Plant Ecology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Tartu University. He explores how biotic interactions shape plant … Continue reading
Not one, but again two seminars: Marc-André Selosse & Benoît Perez-Lamarque about mycorrhiza
Holiday season is thankfully over, and time to get back to science! Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker1: Prof. Selosse is based at the National Museum of Natural History … Continue reading
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New publication – How do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi travel
Text by Guillermo Bueno Two of the members of the department of Botany (C. Guillermo Bueno and Mari Moora) were invited to write a commentary on a recently published paper in New Phytologist (Correia et al 2019). The paper commented … Continue reading →