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Training for functional soil microorganism biodiversity (TRAINBIODIVERSE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
The TRAINBIODIVERSE ITN will provide professional skills and training for young scientists covering multi-disciplinary aspects of soil biodiversity, ecosystem services, their economic significance and practical implications and implementation.The researchers will gain access to European educational and network facilities and training aimed at ensuring the wellbeing of human populations and the con ...
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Innovative Robotic Artefacts Inspired by Plant Roots for Soil Monitoring (PLANTOID)
Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
We aim at designing, prototyping, and validating a new generation of ICT hardware and software technologies inspired from plant roots, called PLANTOIDS, endowed with distributed sensing, actuation, and intelligence for tasks of environmental exploration and monitoring. PLANTOIDS take inspiration from, and aim at reproducing, the amazing penetration, exploration, and adaptation capabilities of plan ...
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PLants Employed As SEnsor Devices (PLEASED)
Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
Plants have amazing and significant sensing capabilities. For instance, each single root apex can simultaneously and continuously monitor many chemical and physical parameters. Natural organisms, including human beings, have often inspired works of science and science fiction on how to augment their abilities or interface them with machines. As a remarkable example, electroencephalography (EEG) en ...
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The roots of plant productivity: how the rhizosphere interact with the aboveground armament for indirect and direct defense against abiotic stressors (ROOTS)
Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,
"The roots represent at least half, by mass, of the body of a plant; through this hidden part, water and nutrients are assimilated, and together with atmospheric CO2, constitute the basis of the entire reserve food of the planet. Moreover, the roots affect plant growth through many other processes in addition to their role in water and nutrients uptake: located at the interface between soil and ab ...
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Gentle remediation of trace element contaminated land (GREENLAND)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
"Gentle remediation options (g.r.o.) include various (mostly plant based) approaches to remediate trace element contaminated soils at low cost and without significant negative effects for the environment. Although g.r.o. comprise very innovative and efficient technologies, they are still not widely used as practical site solution due to several reasons of hindrance for applying g.r.o. as practical ...
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