Biological fluxes in soil and their role in drought resistance (BIOFLOWS)
- Project start: 01/09/2024
- Project end: 31/08/2027
- Principal Investigator: Lionel Dupuy
- Funder: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
- Call: Knowledge Generation
- Reference: PID2023-149435OR-I00
- Acronym: BIOFLOW
- Total budget: 200.000 €.
- Percentage funded: 100%.
General objetive:
The overall objective of this project is to better understand how biological activity in the rhizosphere affects the lifetime of bioavailable soil water in the rhizosphere.
Specific objetives:
- Quantify how microbial mobility affects water transport in the pore space.
- To elucidate the contribution of group behaviour on the physical properties of the soil solution.
- To characterise how microbial colonisation of the root may affect water availability.
- Develop new theories that account for bacterial motility in water transport equations.
Project PID2023-149435OR-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033