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Using soil bio-inocula to enhance tomato and strawberry pest resistance and production
Inoculation of plants or soil with consortia of beneficial soil organisms is a increasing practiced to boost plant nutrition and defense in sustainable agriculture and horticulture, thereby reducing the need for high input of fertilizers and pesticides.
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Using beneficial microbes to enhance direct and indirect plant defense in tomato
Beneficial soil microbes can enhance plant nutrition and plant defense.
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Small but deadly: The role of viruses in bacterial death and soil carbon storage
Billions of microorganisms live and die in the soil beneath our feet, affecting soil carbon storage and its release to the atmosphere. This project investigates how viruses drive bacterial death and the fate of bacterial remains, to better understand how soil can contribute to maintaining a healthy climate.
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Intraspecific variation in grass microbiome interaction
Through association with beneficial bacteria and fungi, plants can express increased growth via improved nutrient uptake, disease resistance, and abiotic stress tolerance. Such microbe-mediated plant traits could be important for ecological adaptation and crop improvement, but natural or artificial selection can only shape these traits if genetic variation exists
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Linking space to time in ecology: Urban Evolution in Dandelions
Urban environments are ever expanding and differ markedly from natural and rural ecosystems. Cities are good test cases for the adaptive capacity of plants and animals in a rapidly changing world.
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Large herbivores can bend the curve of biodiversity loss in tropical forests
A 10-year experiment in Brazil’s endangered Atlantic Forest, led by NIOO-researcher Nacho Villar, has found that there's less biodiversity loss in areas where large herbivores can roam free.
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ISME18
ISME18 will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland on 19 August 2022.
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Thesis defence Hui Jin
On Monday 13 December 2021, Hui Jin will defend his thesis at Wageningen UR
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NIOO theme ‘Sustainable water and land use’
Healthy surface water and soils are essential for life on earth, providing diverse life-support functions including nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration and oxygen generation, degradation of xenobiotics and providing substrates for plant growth and the production of food, feed and fiber. -
NIOO Theme Biodiversity
In order to protect, or restore biodiversity, it is crucial to consider all forms of life within their entire context. The strength of NIOO-based research is that it integrates all of the different levels and scales that make up biodiversity, from genetic diversity to species diversity, from small to large organisms, from trophic interactions to communities and ecosystems, and in a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Therefore, NIOO is in the right position to make a substantial and scientifically important contribution to the societal goal of the SDGs.