- Tree Root Microbiome Project
Our aim is to build a model of the tree-microbiome associations that exist under a wide range of environmental situations, and use these to understand links between climate factors such as precipitation and temperature on microbiome associations.
- correlate soil data with environmental data and DNA information extracted from soil and root micro-organisms
- link environmental drivers to changes in the associations trees form with the root microbiome.
- Future cast climate scenarios for NZ and, climate zones present overseas, determine if tree-microbiome associations that will confer resilient traits are present in our soils, or need to be altered or managed.
- o International soil sampling programme, coordinated by a smart-phone app to record the sampling site.
- Sampling of the microbiome of the remnant and isolated natural populations of P. radiata still present in California and Mexico to determine how much potential microbiome has been lost during domestication. This maybe a valuable reservoir of microbiome biodiversity that P. radiata overseas (outside the native range) cannot access.
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