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 WP03: Functional Mechanisms

 A major problem related with high variability and often limited reproducibility of plant bio-effector responses under field conditions is the limited knowledge concerning environmental factors determining the performance of bio-effectors and the functional mechanisms behind the observed effects. Therefore, WP03 will address all aspects related with the function of the selected bio-effector products and product combinations. The major tasks comprise:

(i) Standardisation of new or already existing methodologies for measuring effects of bio-effectors on plants.

(ii) Tracing colonization of microbial bio-effectors along or inside the roots or even in aboveground plant parts.

(iii) characterisation of responses to bio-effector applications at the physiological and molecular level, both, in target plants and also in the applied microbial bio-effectors.

(iv) demonstrate the impact of bio-effector applications on the composition of plant-associated microbial communities especially with respect to nutrient cycling, plant pathogens, and bio-safety issues.




Participants:DLO, UHOH, JKI, CUB, UNINA, AFBI, AUAS, FIBL, ABI 
 

BIOFECTOR 2012-2017 funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme | Grant Agmt. No. 312117