Beyond the surface – Uncover the hidden diversity of soil microbes  

In the face of ongoing environmental challenges and sustainability often overlooked, microorganisms – ubiquitous across diverse environments – hold promise. Offering complex metabolic capabilities, soil microbes, for instance, can improve plant growth and disease resistance, offering sustainable and natural solutions to various challenges. However, to harness these capabilities accurate identification is crucial.

During her PhD studies, Christina Karmisholt Overgaard, addressed some of the challenges regarding taxonomic classification of microbes. The research findings contribute to a better and more precise understanding of complex microbial communities in soil which in the future hopefully will lead to more sustainable agriculture systems.

The PhD study was completed at Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Faculty of Engineering, Aalborg University.

This summary was prepared by the PhD student.