Sarah Strauss
Microbial communities are at the center of Sarah Strauss’ presentations during the Citrus Expo educational program. Strauss, an assistant professor of soil microbiology at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, will speak in the vegetable and specialty crop session at Citrus Expo.
Strauss will focus on microbial communities in vegetable crops. She will discuss how manipulation of these communities can impact vegetable crops and root growth.
Strauss will spend some time focusing on the complexities of the interactions with microbial communities. “Soil microbial communities in vegetable crops are very complicated, and there are a lot of factors that are involved, so trying to manipulate them can be very complicated,” she explains.
Similar to her citrus presentation, Strauss will also present some preliminary data looking at greenhouse experiments. “(These experiments) look at adding specific organisms to the soil and whether we can see any impact of that,” she explains.
Strauss will be giving her presentation on Wednesday, August 15, at 3:45 p.m.
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