Pennanen, Taina

Ph.D., Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• soil microbiology
• mycorrhiza

Research Projects

Current

• Alien species and spruce pathogens
  
• Coniferous forest soil microbial activity and community structure
  
• Ectomycorrhizal fungi on Norway spruce clones: genetic control of susceptibility to fungal colonisation in relation to host tree growth
  
• Impacts of host trees and neighbour microbes on Tricholoma matsutake hyphae growth, and its application
  
• Utilization of forest tree-associated fungi
  

Former

• Aetiology and epidemiology of forest diseases
  
• Environmental Impacts of Wood Ash and its Heavy Metals
  
• Maintenance of nutrient status on mineral soils
  
• New possibilities in controlling Heterobasidion root rot
  
• The effect of mycorrhizal inoculum on the growth and survival of the spruce seedlings
  

Contacts

Keywords: soil microbiology