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Afdeling Microbiële Ecologie

Micro-organismen herbergen enorm veel, nog grotendeels onbekende stoffen en eigenschappen. Een schatkist voor de onderzoekers van de afdeling Microbiële Ecologie.

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2019

SmartResidue Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and accounts for up to 17% of global warming according to the IPCC. Agricultural soils have always been regarded as a...

2017

Assessment of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench and its interaction with rhizospheric soil microbial community Plant genotype selects the rhizosphere microbiome. The success of plant-microbe interactions is dependent on factors that directly or indirectly influence the...

2017

Developing bioinformatics tools for future metabolomics data analysis Developing bioinformatics tools for future metabolomics data analysis.

2017

Effect of mycophagous bacteria on pathogen survival and virulence This project, partly funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, is examining the role of mycophagous bacteria associated with the fungal pathogens Fusarium...

2017

The zooplankton-microbiome: beyond microbe-host associations (MicroZoo)

2017

Unravelling the ecological role of bacterial terpenes The overall objective of this project is to decipher the ecological functions of bacterial terpenes in the rhizosphere.

2016

Back to the Roots - II The overall goal of the project is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the biodiversity and functions of microorganisms in the spermosphere and (endo)...

2016

Harnessing the soil microbiome for improved stress tolerance in crop plants Plants are involved in intimate interactions with microbes during their entire life and these interactions are essential for plant growth and health. Within...

2016

Physiological and ecological strategies of soil bacteria belonging to the phylum Acidobacteria Acidobacteria is among the most abundant phylum in soils, however, their physiological capabilities and co-occurrence with soil inhabitants are still unknown...

2016

Role of volatile organic compounds (mVOCs) in competition between fungi and bacteria in soil This project, partly funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, is examining the role of microbial volatiles in the competition between fungi and bacteria in...

2016

Scents in the dark: exploring volatile emission in the rhizosphere The overall objectives of this project are: 1) to establish within NIOO the best methodology for measuring volatile emission from the rhizosphere and 2) to...

2016

The zooplankton-microbiome (MicroZoo): beyond microbe-host associations Zooplankton is a crucial component of aquatic food webs. Microbes colonizing zooplankton species have been proposed to provide numerous ecosystem services...

2016

Use of cover crop residues to stimulate disease-suppressing capacities of soil microbial communities This project, partly funded by the Chinese Scholarhip Council, is examining the effects of decomposing cover crops on the suppression of diseases caused by...

2016

VolMob: Interactions between methanotrophs and heterotrophs mediated by volatile compounds Methanotrophic bacteria are crucial in the regulation of methane concentration in the atmosphere and therefore for regulating our climate. Despite all research...

2015

CCC: Clever Cover cropping. Synergistic Mixtures for Sustainable Soils Since recently, Dutch farmers are required to grow cover crops in mixtures of at least two plant species. Cleverly chosen species mixtures can support greater...

2015

Deciphering the microbiome of fish eggs to mitigate emerging diseases in aquaculture In aquaculture, diseases caused by the fungal-like oomycete Saprolegnia, but also ectoparasites are causing significant declines in fish and crayfish...

2015

ParaFishControl: Advanced Tools and Research Strategies for Parasite Control in European farmed fish Aquaculture is the fastest growing animal food production sector in the world and is an increasingly important contributor to global food supply. Currently,...

2015

Sapro-Feed: Increasing Crop Health by Managing Natural Microbial Interactions There is an urgent need for novel environmentally-friendly approaches to control diseases by soil-borne pathogens as the use of chemical pesticides is strongly...

2015

The endophytic microbiome of banana Panama disease of banana, caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc), is widespread in Indonesia but little is known about the...

2015

Unravelling the mechanisms underlying health and productivity promoting agricultural practices by fine-mapping rhizosphere communities Plant species shape their own rhizosphere community, and on its turn selected soil biota shape the growth and development of plants. By making optimal use of...

2015

Unravelling the sinks and sources of nitrous oxide in sustainable bio based agriculture Our goal is to combine advanced omics technologies (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics) to determine the key players in the biogeochemical...

2014

Back to the Roots I In the area of soil and rhizosphere microbiology relatively few efforts have been made to study the biodiversity and functions of beneficial microbial...

2014

Core microbiome for soil ecosystem functioning The core of a microbiome is defined as the minimum community of microbes that is essential for the good functioning of ecosystem. This concept that is mostly...

2014

Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic of Acidobacteria from Cerrado Biome The main aim of this project is the fundamental understanding of Acidobacteria physiology for the production of hydrolytic enzymes for industrial processes...

2014

Harnessing the rhizosphere microbiome to enhance plant productivity High biomass production of sugarcane needs input of mineral fertilizers in soil. However, since Brazilian sugarcane production technology aims at a sustainable...

2014

Impacts of land use and of the Babassu palm on microbial community composition and function and on soil quality in Maranhão State, eastern periphery of Amazonia Research is a the interface between traditional ecology (vegetation, soil physico-chemistry, macro fauna and meso fauna) and molecular soil microbial ecology (...

2014

LifeMOB: Unraveling of Life Strategies and Traits of Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria using a proteomic approach. The dynamics of different groups of methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) are central to predicting variability in methane emissions, yet their quantitative...

2014

Microbial Networks in control of greenhouse gases emissions in Bio-based agriculture-MiniBag There is a substantial data on the relation between the activity of individual microbial species and of communities on the production of greenhouse gases (GHGs...

2014

Modulation of plant growth & chemistry by the rhizosphere microbiome Omics-based studies have shown that members of the rhizosphere microbiome can cause substantial transcriptional and metabolic changes in plants, leading to...

2013

BE-Basic SURESUPPORT. Towards a quick decision SUPPORT tool for SUstainable use of harvest RESidues. Worldwide, erosion of agricultural soils is a very serious issue leading to loss of organic matter (OM) and associated soil functions leading to lower crop...

2013

Genomic and functional characterization of beneficial bacteria from natural disease suppressive soils Disease-suppressive soils are ecosystems in which crop plants suffer less from specific diseases than expected owing to the activities of antagonistic soil...

2013

Icelandic grassland soils dominated by ammonia-oxidizing archaea, or not? In the nitrogen-limited soils of Grændalur valley on Iceland, thaumarchaea dominated the process of ammonia oxidation. Ammonia-oxidizing betaproteobacteria...

2013

Metagenomic mining of the endophytic plant microbiome The plant microbiome represents an enormous untapped resource for discovering novel microorganisms, traits, genes and bioactive compounds. Endophytic bacteria...

2013

Role of fungi in priming effects Priming effect is defined as a short-term change in the turnover of soil organic matter caused by the addition of organic carbon to the soil. This project will...

2012

BE-Basic: Biogeochemical Indicator tools for assessing pollution of water bodies and sediments. This project aims to develop monitoring tools to assess environmental impact invoked by bio-based agriculture, for example changes due to agricultural run-off...

2012

Ecology of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms in natural grassland soils showing repressed nitrification Ammonia oxidation is repressed by a natural vegetation of matgrass sward plants. The project aims at unraveling the underlying mechanisms by studying the...

2012

Greenhouse gas emissions (N2O, CO2 and CH4) from soil with sugarcane production and impact on microbial community structure and function Sugarcane crops in Brazil grow with less nitrogen fertilizers than other biofuel crops, resulting into lower levels of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas...

2012

Meta-omics of disease suppressive soils Disease suppressive soils (soils in which plant pathogens cause little or no disease due to activities of the resident microbial community) have been described...

2012

Next Generation Array Systems for sensing soil Health Status Using a large-scale in situ experiment with different management treatments (knowing as soil quality and health treatments), an intensive greenhouse gases...

2012

Soil-borne microbes in soil restoration: why they live there, how they respond to environmental factors, and what are the consequences in ecosystem services? We have proof-of-concept that microbe bio-indicators exist in soils under restoration and they respond to abiotic factors and nutrients content. However there...

2012

The secrets of success: the best bacterial competitive strategies in the rhizosphere This project aims to understand: i) the effect of abiotic (soil moisture) and biotic (root exudates composition) conditions on bacterial competitive strategies...

2011

The role of heterotrophic satellite bacteria in nitrifying microbial communities Heterotrophic bacteria increase the stability of nitrifying communities by mostly unknown factors. The project aims at studying the effects of heterotrophic...

2011

Intelligent genomic mining for antibacterial and antioxidant compounds via ecology-based screening of terrestrial microbes The program seeks to provide focused approaches to gene mining by zooming in on essential competitive and mutualistic microbial interactions and by developing...

2011

The effect of migrated Red mangroves on ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in former salt-marsh soils Due to global warming mangroves will move to the north and the south where they will enter former salt marshes. The project aims at establishing the effect of...

2011

The interaction between plant defense and microbes The objective of this study is to examine the degree to which plant defense systems influence microbial community development in the rhizosphere and vice versa...

2011

Volatile affairs in the rhizosphere Volatile compounds play important roles in rhizosphere interactions. The goal of this project is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying volatile-...

2010

Crossing the frontiers of microbial ecology: Ancient patterns of microbial diversity This project investigates the changes occurring in microbial communities through time and the environmental parameters that affect those changes, through high...

2009

Crossing the frontiers of microbial ecology: in-situ micro-scale soil diversity patterns In this project, we investigate micro-scale soil microbial communities in situ using high throughput sequencing techniques, and aim to evaluate the use of...

2007

The effect of flooding on the diversity and activity of ammonia-oxidizing communities in Black mangrove soils Natural vegetation of mangroves is structured according to environmental and soil characteristics. The project aims at establishing the distribution of ammonia...

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