The Borralha mine (PhytoSUDOE´s site 3) integrates soils with high trace elements concentrations that can benefit from the application of phytotechnologies. In this context, inoculated poplar plants (Populus sp.) were transplanted to the mine soil plots in April, 2017 intercropped with alfalfa. Moreover, in September, winter...
On the 8th of September 2017 the candidate María Touceda González successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia (IIAG-CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela. The thesis was carried out under the supervision of Dr. Ángeles Prieto Fernández and Dr. Petra...
Since the year 2005, the so-called Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) allows massive parallel sequencing that affords maximal DNA sequence identification for a certain simple. By applying NGS technologies, metabarcoding nowadays represents a rapid method of biodiversity assessment that combines two technologies: DNA based identification and high-throughput...
Taking advantage of the PhytoSUDOE project, Dr Michel Mench (INRA) and Dr Philippe Le Coustumer (UniV; Bordeaux and Uni. Pau et Pays de l’Adour), are currently teaching risk assessment and phytomanagement of contaminated soils at this brownfield site (S1) to Master students of the Bordeaux...
In a recently-published paper, Quintela-Sabaris et al. (2017) reported the results of a study using metal-contaminated soils from ten European phytomanaged field trials, and which included two of the PhytoSUDOE field sites (Touro, Spain and Saint-Médard d’Eyrans, France; S8 and S1, respectively). Lettuce plants were...