CIRCLES is a multi-national, multi-actor, 5-year consortium funded by the European Commission and aimed at developing microbiome applications to improve...
Managing nutrients is a key part of an agronomic system. 4R Nutrient Stewardship provides a framework to achieve cropping system...
Agriculture is one of the keystones of human civilization, providing a reliable, stationary source of food that allowed ancient populations...
Source: CABI Press Release A team of scientists, led by CABI’s Dr Matthew Ryan, have outlined a series of challenges and...
A holobiont is a host (plant, animal or human) and its associated microbial communities (bacteria, viruses, archaea, protists and microscopic...
Many academic and industrial labs have discovery programs looking for microbes or other promising leads to address farmers’ needs for...
Ensuring food safety and security continues to be a perpetual challenge as 20-50% of all crop yields are lost to...
Plant disease is a major problem for US and global agriculture and results in yield losses and high costs for...
Projects Genome-based circumscription and phenotyping of regulated microbes The project funded by the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) began in...
Source: MicrobiomeSupport project Project supported by the Phytobiomes Alliance, lead by Coordinating Committee member Angela Sessitsch In 2019, MicrobiomeSupport organised a workshop...
MASTER is an EU funded project (€12 million budget), the overall aim of which is to take a global approach...
Next generation sequencing (NGS) revolutionized the understanding and discovery of molecular details in biological organisms. Scientists generate large amounts of...