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Laura Aldrich-Wolfe
Laura Aldrich-Wolfe
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Laura Cecilia De Luca
Laura Cecilia De Luca
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Laura Van Galen
Laura Van Galen
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Laura Yahdjian
Laura Yahdjian
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Lindsay Holsen
Lindsay Holsen
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Lisa O'Donnell
Lisa O'Donnell
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We manage and monitor the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve for endangered and rare species, including Golden-cheeked Warbler, Black-capped Vireo, karst invertebrates, and rare plants.
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Liteboho Maduna
Liteboho Maduna
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I am studying the biodiversity of mycorrhizal fungal communities associated associated with ecosystems in Lesotho
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Liz Koziol
Liz Koziol
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Lorinda Bullington
Lorinda Bullington
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Louisa Robinson Boyer
Louisa Robinson Boyer
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Louis Berrios
Louis Berrios
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My work focuses on tripartite interactions among bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi, and plants. In particular, I investigate positive interactions among these organisms.
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Louise Rütting
Louise Rütting
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Overall research question is: how is the plant – soil nitrogen cycle in Montane cloud forest in Peru affected by lack of rain and clouds
1) Are plants and microbes in canopy soil and in ground soil N or P limited ? 2) Does drought by rain removal - decrease or increase gross N mineralization ?
3) and has stronger impact in the epiphytes N uptake than in ground-living herbs ?
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Lucas C. Wheeler
Lucas C. Wheeler
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My work focuses on the evolutionary genetics and biochemistry of floral trait evolution and adaptation. I seek to link the molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic evolution in plants to ecological functions including mutualistic interactions with other organisms.
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Lucía Ana Díaz Ariza
Lucía Ana Díaz Ariza
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Luis Berrios-Hayden
Luis Berrios-Hayden
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MSc Student. Spatial distribution of AM fungal diversity and metal concentrations as a function of urban structure in Philadelphia, PA.
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Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo
Luis Daniel Prada Salcedo
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Microbial molecular ecology
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Lukelysia Nyawira
Lukelysia Nyawira
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My work involves studying and working with soil biodiversity in various degraded sites, such as rangelands, forests, and grasslands. My primary focus is on understanding how to restore and sustain these ecosystems through biological interventions.My research and activities explore the intricate relationships between living organisms in the soil, including microorganisms, fungi, bacteria, plants, and invertebrates.
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Maan Bahadur Rokaya
Maan Bahadur Rokaya
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Mahmoud Gargouri
Mahmoud Gargouri
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Malin Klein
Malin Klein
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks under nutrient limiting conditions.
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Manikandan Ariyan
Manikandan Ariyan
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I am working on the biodiversity offset project.
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Manuela Giovannetti
Manuela Giovannetti
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Marcelo Betancur Agudelo
Marcelo Betancur Agudelo
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Marco Iannaccone
Marco Iannaccone
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Plant-fungal ecology. Plant-fungal biotechnology.
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MARÍA ADELINA MOREL REVETRIA
MARÍA ADELINA MOREL REVETRIA
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Our research focuses on beneficial plant-microbe interactions and soil microorganisms'' roles in disturbed ecosystems
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Maria Alice Neves
Maria Alice Neves
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I work on tropical ectomycorrhizal fungi. The research group is multi disciplinar and includes taxonomy of fungi and plants, plant anatomy, plant physiology and ecology.
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María Belén Moya Mejía
María Belén Moya Mejía
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Effects of soil type management on mycorrhizal communities in conserved dry forest, coffee, corn and peanut crops in southern Ecuador.
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Maria Cristina Lopez Roberts
Maria Cristina Lopez Roberts
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María Cristina Lopez Roberts has designed projects for orchid conservation in the Bolivia 's cloud forests, where she has also researched mycorrhizal fungi of orchids endemic to the Yungas.
She is currently a professor at the Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, and is leading a study on the diversity of leaf-degrading fungi in the dry forests of Chuquisaca, Bolivia
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María del Rosario Lonardi
María del Rosario Lonardi
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Maria Victoria Vignale
Maria Victoria Vignale
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Mariela Lis Ambrosino
Mariela Lis Ambrosino
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Studies related to nutrient dynamics and organic matter decomposition; evaluation of chemical, biochemical and microbiological indicators of soil quality in semi-arid environments. Ecological studies about the effect of different disturbances on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi present in the rangelands of central-southern Argentina.
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Marije van Son
Marije van Son
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Imaging of Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks under nutrient limiting conditions
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Mark Worthing
Mark Worthing
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Marlon Oswaldo Pineda Escobar
Marlon Oswaldo Pineda Escobar
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My research aims to diagnose and identify plant pathogens such as bacteria, fungi and nematodes in the crops of small and large farmers. I am also investigating the potential of beneficial microorganisms to control economic diseases affecting crops in sourthern Ecuador.
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Marta Filipa Simões
Marta Filipa Simões
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Martin Hassan Polo Marcial
Martin Hassan Polo Marcial
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McKenzie Stock
McKenzie Stock
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Meirong Chen
Meirong Chen
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Melina Rodríguez Badillo
Melina Rodríguez Badillo
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Melina Soledad Piacenza
Melina Soledad Piacenza
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Melissa Uribe Acosta
Melissa Uribe Acosta
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Mercy Veyeh Ngwang
Mercy Veyeh Ngwang
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Meryem ADOUANE
Meryem ADOUANE
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Michael Adedotun Oke
Michael Adedotun Oke
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Economic Behaviour and Livestock Production in the Forestry Zones of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. Studying the various activities that are involve in each of the forestry zones and looking at the advantages
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Michael Remke
Michael Remke
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Michael Sakha
Michael Sakha
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Michala Phillips
Michala Phillips
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I am an ecologist studying how biotic interactions, disturbance and global change mediate community assembly of plants and soil microbes to affect emergent ecosystem functions.
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Michela Audisio
Michela Audisio
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Mohamed Abourouh
Mohamed Abourouh
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Systematic and ecology of higher fungi, specially ECM. Promotion and conservation of edible species is equally a major focus.
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Mohamed Hijri
Mohamed Hijri
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Momnjoh Edna kindzeka
Momnjoh Edna kindzeka
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Moses Ngugi
Moses Ngugi
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Muhammad Noman
Muhammad Noman
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Flowering and Fruit Ripening in Coffee
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Muhammad Riaz
Muhammad Riaz
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Mustafa Saifuddin
Mustafa Saifuddin
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Nancy Johanna Pino Rodríguez
Nancy Johanna Pino Rodríguez
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Nanyika Kingazi
Nanyika Kingazi
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Natalia Veronica Fernandez
Natalia Veronica Fernandez
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Bioecology of mycorrhizas and associated fungi in natural and human-modified environments; Taxonomic and functional diversity of mycorrhizas; Direct and indirect ecosystem services provided by mycorrhizas; Search for fungal species with biotechnological potential for application in various aspects of everyday life, remediation and restoration of natural environments; Fungi and global change.
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Natalie Ferro Lozano
Natalie Ferro Lozano
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Nathan Howard
Nathan Howard
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I study novel mycorrhizal nitrogen acquisition
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Naveen Dilawar
Naveen Dilawar
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Ñawi K. Flores
Ñawi K. Flores
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My research weaves Indigenous Knowledge Systems with Western scientific methods to evaluate Indigenous-led climate/culture innovative conservation, adaptation, and mitigation, as well as the ethical approach to nature-based solutions and nature-positive practices. The kinship-based regenerative landscape restoration of the Global South food systems (farmlands & forestlands) links the intersections between the kallamp ecosystem (mycorrhizal network), soil health stewardship systems, and Indigenous People (IP) and Local Communities (LCs) symbiotic-indigeneity cultural philosophy on “commonning" the rhizosphere health.
Lab-to-Land Experimental Farm, kinship-based Chichupampa Clan, Tawantinsuyu, Ecuador.
Regenerative Collaborations, Turtle Island, USA.
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Nelly Jazmín Pacheco Cruz
Nelly Jazmín Pacheco Cruz
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Estudiante de doctorado. Especializada en la genética de la conservación de especies forestales en los bosques de la Sierra Juárez de Oaxaca, México. Interesada en los efectos del cambio climático y en las interacciones entre plantas y ecosistemas del suelo (hongos y bacterias).
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Nelly Sélem Mojica
Nelly Sélem Mojica
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Ngagne NDONG
Ngagne NDONG
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Niloufar Hagh-Doust
Niloufar Hagh-Doust
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Nishank Reddy
Nishank Reddy
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Nourou Soulemane Yorou
Nourou Soulemane Yorou
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I am working on tropical African mycorrhizal fungi and their interactions with green plants. Research aspects include mycorrhizal networking, integrative taxonomy, evolution, ecology, sustainable uses and conservation of mycorrhizal fungi from tropical Africa
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Nsah Francoline Sama
Nsah Francoline Sama
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Nur Edy
Nur Edy
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Currently, I work as a researcher and teaching in the Faculty of Agriculture at Tadulako University. My core research area is the functional diversity of arbuscular mycorrhiza, fungal pathogens, and agroecology.
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Obaiya Utoblo
Obaiya Utoblo
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Okoro Ikwuakonam George
Okoro Ikwuakonam George
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OLATUNDE Oluwaseun J. A.
OLATUNDE Oluwaseun J. A.
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Osarode Stephen Odemwingie
Osarode Stephen Odemwingie
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Osayomwanbo Osarenotor
Osayomwanbo Osarenotor
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Pablo Cornejo
Pablo Cornejo
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Paola Torres-Andrade
Paola Torres-Andrade
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Patricia Carina Fernandez
Patricia Carina Fernandez
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Patricia Vaz Jauri
Patricia Vaz Jauri
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Paulette Goyes
Paulette Goyes
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I work with pollutants and their degradation with fungi
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Paul Shannon
Paul Shannon
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Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas
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Pedro Madeira Antunes
Pedro Madeira Antunes
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My research focuses on understanding the role of soil fungal communities on plant community composition in different systems (agricultural, grassland and temperate and boreal forest). In addition, I am interest in understanding how global change factors such as soil disturbance, biological invasions and climate change affect such plant-fungal interactions.
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Peter Chatanga
Peter Chatanga
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Peter’s expertise lies in Plant Ecology and Biodiversity and is particularly interested in studying the complex networks of relationships between organisms and their environment, and how these interactions shape community structure and organisation, as well as ecosystem functioning. His research focuses not only on understanding the factors that influence species composition, diversity and abundance in ecological communities, but also the processes that drive the distributions of species at both fine and coarse spatial scales, as well as temporally.
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Philemon Gyamfi
Philemon Gyamfi
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I am currently a 2nd year MSc. Plant Protection, and my research focuses on the effects of different fertilizer levels on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in different corn varieties under different water regimes. This research aims to evaluate the potential impacts of different nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium levels on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under different water conditions to ascertain the best soil nutrient addition methods that can help sustain soil microbiome functioning and diversity.
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Prayan Pokharel
Prayan Pokharel
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Premsagar Korripally
Premsagar Korripally
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Dr. K. Premsagar research expertise lies in Characterization of metal ion transporters from Neurospora crassa and their role in life cycle development and fungal biodegradation of lignocellulose. Currently working on Trichoderma metal ion transporters, isolation of fungal biofertilizers from hill and mountain areas in Nalgonda region.
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Quinn Moon
Quinn Moon
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My research interests are within the nexus of ecology and evolutionary biology, studying the role of fungi in generating and maintaining biodiversity. Some current project I am currently working on include the mycobiome of the deep earth and deep sea, systematics of leotiomycetes, and fungal community assembly.
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Rachel Z Berner
Rachel Z Berner
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Rafaela Araujo Ferreira Gurgel
Rafaela Araujo Ferreira Gurgel
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Rafael Morales Astudillo
Rafael Morales Astudillo
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La investigación esta basada en todos los componentes de la agricultura regenerativa, no solamente las alternativas para recuperar los suelos, si no también las selección de nuevas variedades de plantas adaptadas a estas técnicas, estamos comparando las diferentes técnicas: aplicación de abonos orgánicos, sobretodo basados en bioles, compost y y con microorganismos enriquecedores del suelo: microorganismos de montaña, controladores biológicos: Trichoderma, Bauberia bassiana, Bacillus thuringiensis, micorrizas. Las investigaciones se realizan en terrenos de los campesinos y en terrenos experimentales de Raymi Llacta, sostenida mente estamos realizando cursos de capacitación para agricultores en toda la provincia de Loja, además los resultados están publicados en la revista "Naturaleza" de la casa de la Cultura ecuatoriana núcleo de Loja, así como son expuestos en los "Martes de Naturaleza" de la misma casa de la cultura a donde asisten autoridades, estudiantes y profesores de universidades y colegios así como periodistas. En mi tesis de doctorado de estado trabajamos sobre el poder patógeno de Helminthosporium maydis y las relaciones huesped parásito.
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Raja Polachi Reddiar
Raja Polachi Reddiar
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Ramona Marasco
Ramona Marasco
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Raphael Boussageon
Raphael Boussageon
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Raphael Wangalwa
Raphael Wangalwa
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Raquel Correa Delgado
Raquel Correa Delgado
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Raquel Milagros Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Raquel Milagros Rodriguez-Rodriguez
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Ecology of soil and arbuscular mycorrhizae. Study of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in natural and disturbed ecosystems, their relationship with the main soil properties, and plants. Mycotrophy of plant species and internal morphology of the AM association.
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Rebeca Gonnet
Rebeca Gonnet
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Rebecca Bunn
Rebecca Bunn
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My research focuses on understanding the function of soil biota, particularly mycorrhizal fungi, when plants are stressed. This work can be applied to managing invasive plants, creating sustainable agriculture systems, and improving restoration outcomes.