COMMUNICATIONS
Kickoff of the European Project SusBind
Kickoff of the European Project SusBind, a Research & Innovation Action funded by the H2020 “Bio-Based Industries” Joint Undertaking The SusBind project on “SUStainable bio BINDers”, with participation of two CSIC institutes (IRNAS-Seville and CIB-Madrid), has...
Kick-off meeting of the WoodZymes project
Research & Innovation Action of the H2020 “Bio-Based Industries” Joint Undertaking coordinated by CIB. The Biological Research Center (CIB) from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) hosted on June 14th (in Madrid, Spain), the kick-off meeting of the...
Informing people about the toxicity risks by soil contamination
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today however it has been neglected, according to the Lancet Commission on pollution and health. In particular, polluted soils threaten the environment and human health....
Policy Conference at Brussels on Preventing and Remediating Degraded Soils
Soils are a vital environmental resource; however, soil protection efforts in European Union have been partial, fragmented and insufficient to halt their degradation. In the Policy Conference held at Brussels, on September 27th 2018, there was a debate about...
MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT WOODZYMES
The Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) hosted on 15-16 November the first technical meeting of the European project WoodZymes (Extremozymes for wood-based building blocks: from pulp...
Disentangling the mediation effect of ectomycorrhizal fungi on soil–tree relationships
Soil abiotic properties, such as texture, nutrient availability and water, are essential in the development of terrestrial plants. Mycorrhizal fungi, which are fungi living in symbiosis with plants roots, are also key for plant growing. This symbiosis enhances a...
Bacillus onubensis, a new bacteria isolated from Gruta de las Maravillas
Along the last two decades, a progressive bacterial and fungal colonization has been detected in show caves and rock art caves, including the world wide known Altamira (Spain) and Lascaux (France) caves. Andalusian caves were n ot being controlled from the...
Meeting of the European Project SUSBIND
The Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS) from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) hosted on 19-21 February, the first technical meeting of the SUSBIND European Project on “Development and pilot production of SUStainable bio-BINDer...
Researchers at the IRNAS (CSIC) publish in Nature an experimental study on climate change and species coexistence
A group of four researchers at the IRNAS (two of them recently moved to the Universities of Jaén and Cádiz), have combined theoretical advances in modern coexistence theory with experimental evaluation of species competition with the aim to increase our...
Researchers from IRNAS determine that drought can reduce the damage caused by exotic pathogens
Climate change and exotic pests and pathogens are main drivers of forest decline worldwide. In the Iberian Peninsula, this decline mainly affects evergreen Quercus species of high economic and ecological importance such as cork oak (Quercus suber) and holm oak...
A member of IRNAS research group Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage takes part in an important multidisciplinary stuy on the prehistoric stela of Almargen
The paper, published by the prestigious british journal Cambridge Archaeological Journal, is signed by prestigious international researchers, also including Dr. Miguel Ángel Rogerio Candelera, a member of the IRNAS Research Group "Environmental Microbiology and...
Probioma, transnational project coordinated by IRNAS, launches its website
Prospection in Subterranean Environments of Microbial Bioactive Compounds with potential use in Medicine, Agriculture and Environment (PROBIOMA), a transnational research project funded by FEDER coordinated by Prof. Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, from IRNAS research group...