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Here you can read all news articles from the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology. The news archive can be found at the end of the page.

Hunting for biological control agents: more fungal isolates than expected have promising properties External web Centre for biological control (CBC) Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi Research news Platform Plant Protection Several species of the fungus Clonostachys have been shown to have the potential to be used as biological control agents in a new study from SLU. Eleven fungal genomes have been sequenced and biological control against a fungus that causes foot rot and head blight in cereals have been investigated in a laboratory environment. Both reduced disease development and growth inhibition of the pathogenic fungus were noted in several isolates. 09 October 2020
Resistance genes in spruce trees raise hopes in struggle against pathogens External web Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi A new thesis from SLU identifies several genes in spruce involved in resistance against root rot. Hopefully, they may serve as markers to readily single out resistant trees in the future, which could save billions for the forest industry. 01 October 2020
Sandy coastal sediments important to limiting greenhouse gases External web Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi On start page external web Research news SLU Water Forum Nitrate transported by rivers to our coasts are degraded by bacterial communities in sediments into the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, or into harmless nitrogen gas, depending on species composition. In a new study from SLU, it is shown that in particular sandy and silty coastal sediments is inhabited by species capable of the transformation from nitrous oxide to nitrogen gas. This makes it important to protect the variation among habitats, not to risk an increased contribution to the greenhou... 24 September 2020
PhD student wanted for project on biological control of septoria tritici blotch External web Centre for biological control (CBC) Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi Platform Plant Protection We are looking for a PhD student for a project on biological control of septoria tritici blotch on wheat. We welcome your application no later than 2020-10-16. 09 September 2020
Alders lack resistance against aggressive type of pathogen External web Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi On start page external web Research news Forest damages Platform Plant Protection The risk is high for wide-spread attacks on alder trees in a warmer Sweden. This is the conclusion drawn by SLU scientists after having observed that the alder population will not be able to adapt to attacks by an aggressive form of the pathogen alder phytophthora by means of natural selection, since it has no genetic component on which the selection can work. 28 February 2020
SLU Centre for Biological Control's annual report 2019 External web Centre for biological control (CBC) Department of Ecology Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi Department of Plant Protection Biology On start page staff web News for SLU staff Department of Molecular Sciences Platform Plant Protection SLU Centre for Biological Control, CBC, has now published the annual popular science overview of the activities during 2019. 28 February 2020
The International Year of Plant Health 2020 officially started External web Staff web Centre for biological control (CBC) Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi International Collaboration SLU Global SLU Future Food Agenda 2030 Platform Plant Protection Yesterday we kicked-off the International Year of Plant Health 2020 (IYPH 2020) here at SLU. This was the first event of many to come in order to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development. 04 December 2019
Researchers and authorities discussed new environmental monitoring methods at SLU External web Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment Collaboration Environmental monitoring and assessment news Environmental monitoring and assessment On November 7 a workshop was held, to identify species and species communities using molecular methods, at SLU for researchers and authorities. The goal was to learn from each other and start using the molecular methods in environmental monitoring and assessment. 12 November 2019
Meeting in Portugal on using ecosystem services to optimize crop protection and production External web Centre for biological control (CBC) Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi The EU project EcoStack has had its first annual meeting in October at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. 11 November 2019
The past is the key to the future – diatoms and the diversity of the oceans External web Evolutionsbiologi Climate research Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi Distinctions and financial funding SLU Water Forum Anushree Sanyal from the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology at SLU has been awarded SEK 5.1 million by the Baltic Sea Foundation for research on diatoms, a type of microalgae. The goal is to find out how humans affect marine diversity, both historically and in the future, with the help of resting diatome spores. 02 October 2019

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