Since December 2016, Michel Mench and its colleagues at INRA are using short-rotation coppice (SRC) species in an aided phytostabilisation experiment in PhytoSUDOE´s S1 site (St Médard d’Eyrans, France). Specifically, the Cu-excluder phenotype of poplar (Populus nigra L.) and willow (Salix caprea L.), both being...
The presentations of the first PhytoSUDOE workshop, held on April 27 in Bordeaux (blog), are now available in the section "Events" and through the links at the bottom of this entry. The next workshop will be held in the spring of 2018 (dates to be determined)...
The workshop was held on the 27th of April at the University of Bordeaux (the complete program can be downloaded at the end of this post) and was attended by more than 40 stakeholders from the public administration, scientific community and private enterprise. In addition...
In February several works related to the conditioning of the plots S5a-S5b and S6 have been advanced. On the one hand, Organic Compost from Vitoria-Gasteiz Biomechanical Treatment Plant (TMB) has been added as an organic amendment at a rate of 75 Tons per hectare, rotavating...
Within this symposium the first results of the PhytoSUDOE project will be presented. The special symposium entitled “Improving soil biodiversity, functionality and ecosystem services of trace element-contaminated soils under interacting effects of (phyto)management and climate change” is organized by (among others) three PhytoSUDOE colleagues [Petra Kidd (IIAG-CSIC),...