Sustainable Agroecosystems

Elucidating and promoting sustainable agriculture across the world

Prof. Dr. Johan Six, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences

In order to understand sustainable agriculture and implement it, we need to elucidate the feedbacks between ecosystem...

Plant Pathology

Evolutionary biology of plant pathogens

Dr. Patrick Brunner, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology

Research in the Plant Pathology group centers around population genetics and phylogeography of the fungal pathogens...

Molecular Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Experimental fungal community assembly

Dr. Hannes A. Gamper, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences

We aim at understanding the ecological and evolutionary determinants of biodiversity in natural arbuscular mycorrhizal...

Plant Ecological Genetics

Grass endophytes

Prof. Dr. Adrian Leuchtmann, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology

Symbiotic associations between organisms are common in ecosystems, but mutual benefits may be conditional depending on...

Plant Nutrition

Improve nutrient-use efficiency in agro-ecosystems

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Frossard, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences

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Plant Nutrition

Microbial functions in soil nutrient dynamics

Dr. Else Bünemann-König, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences

A good understanding of biological cycling of P in terrestrial ecosystems is important in view of both decreasing...

Plant Pathology

Plant pathology

Prof. Dr. Cesare Gessler, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology

Cesare Gessler has been active in plant pathology at ETH for 35 years. During 2003-2008 he also led a research centre in...

Plant Pathology

Plant pathology

Dr. Monika Maurhofer Bringolf, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology

Monika Maurhofer is the leader of a research group with interest in elucidating the multitrophic interactions going on...

Plant Pathology

Population genetics and evolutionary biology of plant pathogenic fungi

Prof. Dr. Bruce McDonald, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology

Plant pathogens evolve rapidly to overcome the disease control strategies that are deployed against them. Resistance...

Systematic Mycology

Systematic mycology

PD Dr. Reinhard Berndt, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology