Code
01W04017
Duration
01 October 2017 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Geophysics
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience
- Other earth sciences
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
- Soil sciences, challenges and pollution
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Engineering and technology
- Geomatic engineering
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural animal production
- Agricultural plant production
- Agriculture, land and farm management
- Other agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences
Keywords
biochar
pyrolyzed organic matter
soil microbial community
mycorrhizae
coconut
Sri Lanka
Project description
This project aims to test if soil amendment of pyrolysed rice and gliricidia residues exert beneficial effects on growth of coconut trees in by enhancing nutrient availability. Focus is on biomass and activity of arbuscular micorrhizae and plant-growth promoting rhizo-bacteria in a Sri Lankan plantation field trial and by means of pot experiments (FBE-UGent).