讲座题目：Role of grass seed microbiome on grassland nitrogen cycling

主讲人：Saman Bowatte 教授

主持人：周小奇 教授

开始时间：2019-5-8（周三）上午09:30

讲座地址：闵行校区 资环楼435室

主办单位：生态与环境科学学院 科技处

报告人简介：

       Saman Bowatte is a Professor at college of Pastoral Agriculture Science and  Technology (CPAST) of Lanzhou University, China. Professor Bowatte received PhD  in Soil Science from the Massey University, New Zealand in 2003, then moved to  Nagoya University, Japan for Post-Doctoral fellowship before returned to  Grasslands campus of AgResearch New Zealand in 2006 to work as a Soil Microbial  Ecologist for 10 years. In March 2016 he joined Lanzhou University.
His  research focus has been about understanding and manipulating plant-soil-microbe  interactions in grazed pastures to improve grasslands productivity while  minimizing environmental pollution. His research included understanding of (a)  nitrogen dynamics in pastoral soils, (b) climate change impacts on grasslands,  (c) greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation, and (d) molecular level  understanding of soil microbial diversity and function. He was a first author or  co-author over 40 refereed journal papers in wide variety of journals such as  ISME Journal, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Agriculture Ecosystems and  Environment and Geoderma.

报告内容简介: 

      Understanding the influence of plants and plant-soil microbe interactions is  important for improving knowledge of nitrogen cycling and nitrous oxide (N2O)  production from livestock farming. In this lecture I would like to show that not  only plant identity influence N2O production in grassland soils but also  grassland plants itself emit N2O. Meanwhile, it is noteworthy that bacteria on  the grass leaf surfaces can be a previously un-recognized source of N2O  emissions in grassland ecosystems.