Prof. Yitzhak Hadar - The Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
ABSTRACT
This study focused on the impact of environmental cues on bacterial communities living along and interacting with plant roots. We specifically focused on how irrigation with recycled municipal wastewater, a common practice in Israel, root and soil bacterial communities. affects In addition, we studied plant root-bacterial interactions, and the implication of denitrifying bacterial isolates on soil ecology. These bacteria facilitate denitrification nitrate reduction to nitrogen that occurs naturally in agricultural fields. Incompletegas, a prominent process denitrification may results in emission of N2O, a potent greenhouse and ozone depleting gas, and therefore we target bacteria that can mitigate N2O emissions from soil.
Prof. Yitzhak Hadar - The Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
ABSTRACT
This study focused on the impact of environmental cues on bacterial communities living along and interacting with plant roots. We specifically focused on how irrigation with recycled municipal wastewater, a common practice in Israel, root and soil bacterial communities. affects In addition, we studied plant root-bacterial interactions, and the implication of denitrifying bacterial isolates on soil ecology. These bacteria facilitate denitrification nitrate reduction to nitrogen that occurs naturally in agricultural fields. Incompletegas, a prominent process denitrification may results in emission of N2O, a potent greenhouse and ozone depleting gas, and therefore we target bacteria that can mitigate N2O emissions from soil.