The department undertakes fundamental and applied research focused on interactions involving plants, pathogenic, symbiotic and saprotrophic fungi and other microorganisms and their role in forest and agricultural systems.
The Centre for Biological Control, CBC, has now published highlights of the activities during 2018.
The pine pathogen Diplodia sapinea earned infamy overnight in 2016, when it was first exposed as...
New, unexpected consequences of climate change keep presenting themselves. A new study from SLU a...
Through our research we answer questions about how agriculture and forestry can be conducted in a world where the climate is changing.
Microbes play a very important role in the ecosystem of our planet. We focus on interactions involving plants, pathogenic, symbiotic and saprotrophic fungi and other microorganisms and their role in forest and agricultural
systems. We actively collaborate with the forest industry and farmers as well as perform basic research to understand underlying mechanisms.
The Department is part of the BioCenter at SLU in Uppsala.
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