Food Sustainability: Terrestrial and Indoor Farming
Understanding root-soil microbiome interactions to foster enhanced plant resilience and productivity.
The production of sufficient food to meet the nutritional needs of the world’s growing population is challenged by overuse of land and declining resources, as well as the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns, droughts, floods and the degradation of soil quality.
SCELSE is investigating the means by which biofilms and microbiomes can help to meet Singapore’s food security goals by understanding the intimate involvement microbes have in plant, and livestock health, productivity and resilience.
- Microbial solutions for improving food production and resilience (stress tolerance and recovery)
- Nutrient provisioning using valorised products (combination of biochar, fermented carbon sources)
- Valorised delivery systems for agri-probiotics (NuSoil plus probiotic consortia)
- Nature-derived agrichemicals (volatiles and water-soluble molecules)
- Insect repelling microbial solutions
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