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Sarah Petris-Symanczik

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Symbiosis
  • Functional biodiversity
  • Plant nutrition

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
ongoing CH Encapsulation of bacterial-fungal consortia for agricultural applications (ENHANCE) 01.01.2025 31.12.2028
ongoing CH Recycling Locally Produced Bio-Wastes to Ensure Affordability and Availability of Innovative Bio-Based Fertilisers (ReLeaf) 01.06.2024 31.05.2028
ongoing Delivering safe, sustainable, tailored & societally accepted soil improvers from circular food production processes for boosting soil health (DeliSoil) 01.06.2023 31.05.2027
ongoing CH Building a European Network for the Characterisation and Harmonisation of Monitoring Approaches for Research and Knowledge on Soils (BENCHMARKS) 01.01.2023 31.12.2027
completed CHEU BIOdiversity of soils and FArming Innovations for improved Resilience in European wheat agrosystems (BIOFAIR) 01.04.2021 31.03.2024
ongoing CHEU Producing advanced bio-based fertilizers from fisheries wastes (SEA2LAND) 01.01.2021 31.12.2024
completed CH Optimizing Bio-based Fertilisers in Agriculture – Knowledgebase for New Policies (LEX4BIO) 01.06.2019 31.05.2024
completed CH Replacement of Contentious Inputs in organic farming Systems (RELACS) 01.05.2018 30.04.2022
ongoing CH Overseas Agriculture Sector Intern Scholarship (OASIS) Program (EPIS-OASIS-Program) 01.01.2018
completed CH Solutions for improving Agroecosystem and Crop Efficiency for water and nutrient use (SolACE) 01.05.2017 30.09.2022
completed CH Pyrophos: Further development of alkali pyrolysis for removal of heavy metals and production of a market-grade P-K fertilizer from sewage sludge (PyroPhos II) 01.01.2017 30.09.2020
completed CH Application of organic bio-fertilizer technology to improve the sustainability of date palm production and cultivation (fertiledatepalm) 01.08.2016 31.07.2019
completed CH Sustainable provisioning of multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes (ECO-SERVE) (ECO-SERVE) 01.01.2015 31.12.2017
completed CH Pyrolysis of sewage sludge and heavy metal elimination for phosphorus recycling (PyroPhos) 01.11.2014 31.10.2016
completed CH Biofertilization and "bioirrigation" for sustainable mixed cropping of pigeon pea and finger millet (ISCB_BIOFI_BT) 01.05.2014 30.05.2017
completed CH Improved phosphorus resource efficiency in organic agriculture via recycling and enhanced biological mobilization (Improve-P) 01.06.2013 31.12.2016
completed DECH Resource Preservation by Application of BIOefFECTORs in European Crop Production (BIOFECTOR) 01.09.2012 31.08.2017
completed CH Inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and rhizobacteria (PGPR) for sustainable cropping systems in India (ISCB BFNet FiBL (Biofertilizer Network)) 01.01.2008 31.12.2014

Training / professional career

  • Since 2014 Scientific collaborator in the Department of Soil Sciences FiBL (Switzerland)
  • 2009 - 2013 PhD studies (thesis title: “Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal diversity of arid lands: From AM fungal species to AM fungal communities”) in the mycorrhiza research group of Prof. A. Wiemken, University of Basel

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Symanczik S., Blaszkowski J., Boller T., Wiemken A., Al-Yahya’ei M. (2014): Three new species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi discovered at one location in a desert of Oman: Diversispora omaniana, Septoglomus nakheelum and Rhizophagus arabicus. Mycologia, DOI: 10.3852/106.2.000
  • Symanczik S., Blaszkowski J., Koegel S., Boller T., Wiemken A., Al-Yahya’ei M. (2014): Isolation and identification of desert habituated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi newly reported from the Arabian Peninsula.  Journal of arid lands, Doi: 10.1007/s40333-013-0213-8