学术报告：Soil microbiology: opportunities for productive land use

   Dr Wakelin is a senior scientist and research team leader at Scion Research. His primary area of expertise is soil microbiology with a focus on soil-microbiology-plant interactions that underpin biogeochemical cycling of major nutrients and plant health. He has skills in molecular (DNA / RNA) methods to detect and measure soil icrobiota involved in key ecosystem functions affecting soil fertility and plant disease, and assessing the ecological links and drivers between key microbial communities and ecosystem function. While on part-time secondment to AgResearch, he leads a ulti-organisational MBIE programme on ‘increasing biological nitrogen supply in pastures by “Improving forage legume-rhizobia performance”.