Project "Diversity and scenario modelling of molecular markers of plant pathogens in plant, litter and soil metagenomes" at theGerman  Centre  for  Integrative  Biodiversity  Research (Div)Halle-Jena-Leipzig: Soils  host  one  quarter  of  all species  on  Earth,  providing  critical  services  to  mankind. This  project asks how soil microorganism communities respond to global change and which changes in soil functions will occur. We will generate answers by mining metagenomics data covering large environmental gradients, available   in   our   consortium   and the   public   domain,   for molecular   markers   of   microbial plant pathogenicity.  On  this  basis  we  will model  global distribution of  microbial  plant  pathogens under climate  and land-use  change scenarios. We will integrate local experimental data to establish causality informing scenario modelling. The project is supervised by François Buscot at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Halle, together with Anna Heintz-Buschart (UFZ/iDiv), Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv), Carlos Guerra (iDiv), and Kirsten Küsel (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

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