Chamada para doutorado sobre interação planta-microbioma na Holanda:
Plant roots house one of the most diverse microbial communities on Earth.
Potentially these can be used to improve stress resilience of crops and
enable sustainable food production. You will study relations between plant
genotype and microbiome functionality changes under stress as well as the
trade-offs with other stress mitigating plant strategies. You will collect
experimental data on how tomato responds to a lack of phosphorus, what
mitigation strategies tomato and its wild relatives use and how microbiome
recruitment fits into these strategies. From these data, using advanced
data integration approaches and causal relationship analyses, you will look
for evidence of decision points and trade-offs in changes in plant nutrient
acquisition strategies, including through the microbiome. This will be
further supported by a GWAS experiment in which you will look for genomic
associations for nutrient acquisition and microbiome recruitment. Gene
candidates will be verified using mutants and/or Virus Induced Gene
Silencing.
What are you going to do?
In this PhD position, you will use experimental work and data integration
approaches to unravel trade-offs in the plant-microbiome interaction under
stress. You are expected to:
analyse the effect of phosphate starvation on gene expression, root exudate
composition and plant root microbiome recruitment and microbiome function;
use experimental and data integration approaches to analyse the trade-off
between recruitment of the microbiome and other P-starvation responses;
supervise bachelor and Master students.
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/301636/phd-position-plant-microbiome-interaction/apply/#apply
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Joao B. Gusmao, PhD
Marine Biologist
Geoscience Institute,
Federal University of Bahia, Brasil
