Geo-Biosphere Interactions

Yihan Pu

PhD Student

Main research interests:

  • Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Biotechnology: Modifying plants to enhance their traits or studying plant-microbe interactions.
  • Investigating AMF Symbiosis: the mechanisms and factors influencing plant-microbe interactions.
  • Role of AMF symbiosis in enhancing abiotic resistance in plants
  • Studying microbial ecology and the impact of environmental disturbances on microbial communities

Research projects

  • RootWayS II: Deep-rooting cover crop mixtures: Creating Highways to subsoil water and nutrient resources (BMBF)
  • CSC: Effect and mechanism of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mediated phosphorus uptake in plants on improving plant abiotic stress resistance

CV

Since April 2024
Ph.D. student

at GBI group of the University of Tuebingen

2021-2023
M.Sc. Biotechnology

at the Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

2016 - 2020
B.Sc. Biotechnology

at Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China