Thesis supervisor: Tünde Mária Takács
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Gödöllő Abbreviation of location of studies: SZIE
Description of the research topic:
The planned research is mainly a methodological development to find phenomorphological, developmental and functional plant features that are suitable for the in situ or destructive detection of plant responses to abiotic stress conditions in a soil-plant system.
The research includes the simultaneous investigation of the photosynthetic activity of plants, the stress induced enzymatic responses, the root morphology and other parameters of soil-root system. The primary goal of the research is stress detection based on the functional and morphological examination of the root system. By root monitoring the changes and differences in the electrical parameters of the soil-root system will be investigated in relation to the stress tolerance of the plant species, the strength of the stress and the plant growth parameters, with special regard to the development and morphology of root. Our experiments will be carried out in artificial growth media, in soils and in different field conditions. Additionally, enhanced attention will be paid to the effects of the colonization and the work made by root microbial symbionts – including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - on the absorptive root surface and the activity of roots.
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