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The diversity, biology and dynamics of microbial agents that regulate nematode populations in the rhizosphere

Reference	BBS/E/C/00004177
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Brian Kerry
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Penny Hirsch
Institution	Rothamsted Research
Department	Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	1,362,477
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1999
End date	31/03/2008
Duration	108 months

Abstract

In some intensive production systems e.g. cereal monoculture, natural microbial enemies have increased to levels that control specific nematode pests. These ¿suppressive¿ soils are slow to develop and difficult to exploit but provide a valuable resource for studying nematode interactions with the rhizosphere microbial community and for isolation of potential biological control agents. This project studies the population dynamics of cyst and root-knot nematode pests and their natural enemies, the bacterium Pasteuria penetrans and the fungus, Pochonia chlamydosporia. The two major targets are: a) to understand the interactions of P. chlamydosporia with its hosts, plants and other organisms in the rhizosphere at the molecular, whole organism and population level in order to develop rational biological control strategies based on this fungal agent b) to study the genomics of P. penetrans in order to discover genes that may provide novel approaches to nematode management.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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