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) |
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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... |
