Richard Broglie
Role in Phytobiomes Alliance
Affiliation
Position
Chief Technology Officer
Research Interests
- Understanding the beneficial associations between plants and their microbiota to improve agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability
- Application of genomic technologies and computational modeling to fine-tune the complex regulatory circuits involved in bacterial nitrogen production and assimilation
- Application of non-invasive and high-resolution spectroscopy to measure crop nitrogen status at field scale for product development
- Development of innovative microbial stabilization and formulation technologies for agricultural applications
Current Phytobiomes-related Projects
Pivot Bio is developing and commercializing root-associated microbes that can supply fixed nitrogen to non-legume crops. We remodel the complex regulatory circuits involved in nitrogen production and assimilation to optimize ammonia production and excretion in free-living diazotrophic bacteria and evaluate their performance across multiple cereal crops. Our goal is to replace synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with microbial solutions.