Research Portfolios

Plant Biotechnology

Cereal biotechnology research for crop improvement

Dr. Navreet K. Bhullar, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences

Cereals, such as rice and wheat, are important source of food worldwide but they contain very low levels of bioavailable...

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 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...

Crop Science

Plant growth and phenotyping

Prof. Dr. Achim Walter, Zurich-Basel PSC, ETH Zurich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences

More versatile and efficient crop production systems require an in-depth understanding of dynamic plant growth...