How Bacteria can help us feed the world
In the current issue of the Planter's Punch, CEPLAS PhD student Laura Merx explains in a podcast with Dr. David Spencer how bacteria can help us feed the world.
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Planter’s Punch
Under the heading Planter’s Punch we present each month one special aspect of the CEPLAS research programme. All contributions are prepared by our early career researchers.
About the author
Laura Merx is a doctoral researcher in the AG Döhlemann at the Institute of terrestrial microbiology at the University of Cologne. She studied molecular and applied Biotechnology in Aachen and joined CEPLAS afterwards in 2021. There she is working on bacterial proteases and their influence on nitrogen acquisition, specifically in plants.
Further Reading
Niu B, Paulson JN, Zheng X, Kolter R. Simplified and representative bacterial community of maize roots. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Mar 21;114(12):E2450-E2459. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1616148114. Epub 2017 Mar 8. PMID: 28275097; PMCID: PMC5373366.
Morimoto K, van der Hoorn RA. The Increasing Impact of Activity-Based Protein Profiling in Plant Science. Plant Cell Physiol. 2016 Mar;57(3):446-61. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcw003. Epub 2016 Feb 12. PMID: 26872839.