Project

Microbial managed organic substrates for horticulture

Code
178BL0512
Duration
01 August 2012 → 31 July 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Environmental microorganism biotechnology
Keywords
sustainable microbial communities organic growing media homeastasis tomato
 
Project description

Objective of this project is to introduce a new sustainable organic cultivation model (soil-plant-micro-organisms) in greenhouse horticulture. Important milestones are the composition and characterization of an organic growing media, the development of an organic fertilizer, the selection of an appropriate inoculum, the introduction of the stable inoculum on the substrate, to proof the effect of homeastasis and to test the new cultivation concept in a plant study.