Projektnummer: 26.32.19.05.01_MYCO-SUSTAIN

MYCO-SUSTAIN: Mykorrhiza-Feldimpfungen für nachhaltige Landwirtschaft

MYCO-SUSTAIN promotes sustainable agriculture by exploring the potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to improve yield, quality, resilience, and soil health in berries, grapevines, and arable crops. Through trials under controlled conditions and large-scale field experiments, the project will identify effective AMF strains and application methods adapted to Swiss conditions. It supports strategic objective from the Calls 7, 8, 13, 32 by enhancing soil functions, biodiversity, and resilience to drought. A granulated AMF product suitable for existing agricultural machinery will be tested, and impacts on agrochemical reduction, nutrient uptake, and soil microbiomes will be assessed.

Name, Vorname Standort
Sutter Louis Conthey
van der Heijden Marcel Reckenholz

Romero Blanch F., Labouyrie M., Orgiazzi A., Ballabio C., Panagos P., Jones A., Tedersoo L., Bahram M., Eisenhauer N., Sünnemann M., Guerra C. A., Tao D., Rog I., Jiao S., Mocali S. und weitere
The soil microbiome as an indicator of ecosystem multifunctionality in European soil.
Nature Communications, 17, 2026, Artikel 705.

Saghaï A., Smith M. E., Vico G., Banerjee S., Edlinger A., García-Palacios P., Garland G., van der Heijden M., Herzog C., Maestre F. T., Pescador D. S., Philippot L., Rillig M. C., Romdhane S., Bommarco R. und weitere
Diverse crop rotations offset yield-scaled nitrogen losses via denitrification.
Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 2026, Artikel 73.

Khan S. A., Capella G. E., Glauser G., Mateo P., Ogi V., van der Heijden M., Bodenhausen N., Robert C.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigate drought-enhanced herbivore performance in maize.
Plant, Cell & Environment, 49, (4), 2026, 2080-2094.

Köninger J., Labouyrie M., Ballabio C., Dulya O., Mikryukov V., Romero Blanch F., Franco A., Bahram M., Panagos P., Jones A., Tedersoo L., Orgiazzi A., Briones M. J. I., van der Heijden M.
Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils.
Nature, 650, 2026, 367-373.

Gómez-Gallego T., Ros M. B H., Sánchez-Moreno S., Feiziene D., Velthof G. L., Petersen S. O., Munkholm L., Bragazza L., van der Heijden M., Hallin S., Goberna M., Ramos J L.
The distribution and kinetics of phosphatase activity in european agricultural soils under long-term tillage reduction practices.
Sustainable Microbiology, 3, (1), 2026, Artikel qvag006.

Eisenhauer N., Sünnemann M., Pollierer M. M., Sun X., Bardgett R. D., Bartkowski B., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Dirilgen T., Guerra C. A., Mathieu J., Niklaus P. A., Romero Blanch F., Ristok C. R., Seeber J., Steinwandter M. und weitere
Soil biodiversity effects on ecosystems.
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 2, 2026, 76-91.