For the sixth time, the Nature Observation Marathon took place on 10-11 June as part of the ninth Nature Festival programme. Over 24 hours, nature lovers made more than 7,700 nature observations. All observations are public on the eBiodiversity Portal. …
On 9 September at 10:15 Farzad Aslani will defend his doctoral thesis “Towards revealing the biogeography of belowground diversity” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Botany and Mycology). Supervisors: Associate Professor Mohammad …
… frequency and identity of neighbours in temperate grassland plants“ On 29 August at 10:15 Maria Abakumova will defend … frequency and identity of neighbours in temperate grassland plants“. Supervisors: Prof. Kristjan Zobel, University of … Bodil K. Ehlers, University of Aarhus, Denmark Summary: Plants are sessile organisms and can react to surrounding …
Tangled in the wood-wide-web: is there a light at the end of the tunnel? In my talk, I will give an overview on the past and present of the wood-wide-web i.e. common mycorrhizal networks, and my attempts to study them with fluorescent nanoparticles …
… collaboration with Tartu and Tallinn wastewater treatment plants to study the efficient removal of organic … often end up transferred to the local wastewater treatment plants, which are not currently equipped with sufficient … is involved in designing and building mobile treatment plants into movable shipping containers and using them to …
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… Portugal). Thesis summary: Food contains traces of DNA from plants, animals, and micro-organisms that have been used in … for plant differentiation. Detection of many different plants in processed foods is more cost-effective using … or k-mers, from the plastid genome, are used to identify plants of interest. The use of short k-mers also allows the …
… the effect of land-use change on the interactions between plants and soil organisms. The evolutionary changes … grasslands, microscopic fungi are highly important for plants, helping them to take up nutrients from the soil as … carbon in the soil. If there has been a shift in land use, plants may abandon the symbiosis with fungi. As a result, …
… processes that determine the speed of photosynthesis in plants. The results of research obtained using the apparatus … higher than that of natural photosynthesis encountered in plants. Photosynthesis will soon be drawn into the limelight …
… have interactions with bioactive compounds contained in plants. The studied bioactive compounds were plant pigments … various products that contain compounds separated from plants. However, not a lot is known about the interactions … studying possible interactions between compounds found in plants and chemotherapeutics, a work group consisting of …
President of Estonia, Mr. Alar Karis honored BiotaTec OÜ with a visit to their Biomining Demo Plant. There is a successful cooperation between BiotaTec OÜ and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) of University of Tartu. The cooperation …
Succulents grow in the world's hottest regions. They can be seen in a dedicated section on the second floor of the greenhouse which has a dry and hot micro-climate. Around 300 taxa and varieties are arranged geographically in a relatively small area of …
… curators and gardeners have created a repository of plants whose beauty and diversity can be enjoyed and … said Jüri Sild. "We've got a very nice section of Estonian plants and a moss garden - on tour; I'll also talk about how …
… The main focus of our group is to understand how plants adjust to their environment throughout their … microbial cooperative partner, a pathogen, or a herbivore. Plants must simultaneously adapt to a multifaceted environment, raising questions about how plants optimize different tasks, how trade-offs emerge …
… In the Plant Ecology Workgroup we study plants and the fungi, bacteria and insects interacting with … of alien species into the plant community affect plants and the organisms interacting with them. …
Intraspecific variation in plant-microbe interactions: implications for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Dr. Jenalle Eck Mutualistic and pathogenic microbes are key drivers of biodiversity and functionality in plant communities worldwide. Though the …