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Understanding „fungal behaviour“ – The excretion of organic acids is an essential property of fungal organisms involving many parts of metabolism. In a recently finished project of the Austrian Science Fund three of these parts - adenine and pyridine nucleotides, alternative respiration, and the plasma membrane H+-ATPase – were studied simultaneously in Penicillium ochrochloron using chemostat culture with different nutrient limitations.
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Susanne Zeilinger and Martin Kirchmair were featured in the latest issue of Tiroler Tageszeitung.
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by Emmanuel O. Benjamin, Giselher Grabenweger, Hermann Strasser & Justus Wesseler in Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection: Biological control methods offer an economic alternative in certified maize and potato production and can help to increase competitiveness in agriculture.The sustainability of the use of biological control methods could be calculated using the "MISTICs Model (Maximum Incremental Social Tolerable Irreversible Costs).
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Mycology Tyrol experts from the University of Innsbruck, together with international colleagues, present Plasmodiophora brassicae and other plant pathogenic protists, including oomycetes infecting algae, in a review article.
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Hermann Strasser talks about the use of his biocontrol agent Melocont® Pilzgerste to reduce the cockchafer population in infested areas of East-, North- and South Tyrol. Thanks to the excellent cooperation between the University, Land Tirol, Landwirtschaftskammer and Maschinenring this in the 1990s initiated pilot project was a huge success.