In December 2019, the international symposium "Microbe-assisted crop production – opportunities, challenges and needs" (miCROPe 2019) was held in the newly renovated Apothekertrakt and Orangerie of the famous Schönbrunn castle in Vienna, Austria, from 2 to 5 December 2019. The symposium addressed basic and applied aspects of applying beneficial microorganisms in crop production. FiBL, respresented by Sarah Symanczik, got the opportunity to present selected project results within the session "Microbial applications for improving nutrition and abiotic stress tolerance". The audience appreciated the applied aspects of the presented research and the results of pot and field trials which were presented under the following title "fertiledatepalm – a transdisciplinary collaboration project to ameliorate date palm cultivation via microbial inoculation, organic matter management and mixed cropping using nurse plants". Have a look at the abstract via the link below.

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orgprints.org: Abstract "Fertiledatepalm – a transdisciplinary collaboration project to ameliorate date palm cultivation via microbial inoculation, organic matter management and mixed cropping using nurse plants"