Microplastic contamination in agricultural soil ecosystems and the effect on soil and plant health

Doctoral project Caroline De Tender

Biodegradable plastics and their effect on lettuce development and the rhizosphere community

Developing an eco-friendly biorefinery platform to extract crustacean chitin as feedstock for microwave-assisted pyrolysis and chitosan production: process design, fabrication, and potential applications.

Getting a headstart: development of PGPM containing seed coating to increase germination

Microplastic contamination in agricultural soils: assessing the risks on soil- and plant health

The effect of microplastic pollution on soil and plant health.

Microbial Diversity in Soybean Nodules: Identifying helper Microorganisms Supporting Bradyrhizobium-Induced Nitrogen Fixation

Pathobiome-based new and innovative selection pipeline for the discovery of high potential, multi-mode-of-action biocontrol bacteria against B. cinerea in tomato and lettuce

BOF-ZAP professorship in microbiology

Soil microplastic pollution - assessing, testing and reducing the risks on soil health

SOY 2.0: Validating the use of endemic rhizobia for sustainable soybean cultivation in Northwestern Europe

A MALDI-TOF/TOF MS instrument for (bio)polymer characterization and imaging.

MATCHMAKING: Unveiling Optimal Soybean-Rhizobia Matches in North-western European Environments

Sustainable solutions to Enhance Soil health and Cowpea and Soybean Productivity in southern Ethiopia (SOSforEthiopia)

BOF-ZAP professorship in microbiology

Goodbye blackbox: elucidating the working mechanisms of biochar and chitin on plant growth and disease resistance

Microbial activation: the key to unlock chitin as an agricultural beneficial?

Response of the strawberry rhizosphere microbiome to chitin and biochar in function of plant health: expanding towards metatranscriptomics and DNA-SIP