Soil biology
Researchers in the School of Life Sciences are increasing our knowledge of soil organisms and looking for ways to manage the soil environment to enhance crop growth and minimise losses to pests and disease
| Soil microbial diversity and functioning Environmental microbiology with emphasis on understanding the structure and functioning of soil microbial communities contributing to C and N cycling in soil, and the catabolism of xenobiotics such as pesticides in the environment |
| Integrated control of soil borne diseases of onion Developing alternative and more sustainable ways of reducing the impact of these diseases |
| Population biology of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in wild and agricultural hosts Investigating populations of the cosmopolitan plant pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on wild and agricultural host plants. |
| Managing soil conditions and other soil microbiota seem likely to be the route to sustainable management of this disease |
| Bacteria can be found all around us and it is important that we understand their role in the environment. Researchers at the School of Life Sciences are investigating metabolic pathways, community structures, survival mechanisms and microbial ecology over a wide range of microbes found in the soil and the sea |
| The ecology of anamorphic entomopathogenic fungi Investigating the occurrence and structure of natural populations |
