Announcements

On the 1st of  September at 11:00 o'clock there is an information briefing and meeting with...

The scientists from the Department of Plant Physiology of the Estonian University of Life Science together with the researchers from the Uppsala BioCenter, SLU, Sweden, and the Institute of Evolution, Haifa University, Israel demonstrated that bacterial isolates from extreme conditions enhanced the drought tolerance of wheat. The bacteria were isolated from North-Israeli ‘Evolution Canyon’, from the roots of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) grown on gneiss rock at Mt Lemmon, Arizona, USA and from salty rice (Oryza sativa) rhizosphere at Tina plain, Giza, Egypt, and were demonstrated to form a biofilm on wheat roots resulting in enhanced absorption of water from dry soil.

In September 2013, inauguration ceremony of the first landfill in the Baltics that was turned into a recreation area took place in Kudjape, Saaremaa Island. The project was carried out in cooperation with Linnaeus University in Sweden and was innovative in the sense that it rarely happens that a landfill is covered with sieved material excavated from the landfill itself.

From January 15 to 27, scientists from Estonian University of Life Sciences and producers of the “Osoon” TV series of Estonian Public Broadcasting travelled to Ethiopia in Africa where they studied and filmed the wintering grounds of Eurasian cranes. The scientific objective of the expedition was to study the migration incl. wintering of the Eurasian crane – an extraordinary and unique opportunity for this was provided by the satellite crane Ahja 4’s first arrival at the wintering grounds of Addis Ababa.

On 22–24 April 2014, the international discussion forum Agroforum Balticum, organised by the E...

On 4 december 2013, the General Assembly of Estonian Academy of Sciences elected four new members of Academy. In life sciences the new member of Academy is professor Ülo Niinemets – the head of Depatment of Plant Physiology in Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.  

Department of Landscape Architecture of the Estonian University of Life Sciences has released a video for promoting their international master's programme in Landscape Architecture. The video features Timo Saabas, one of Landscape Architecture master students, riding his bicycle through different landscapes surrounding Tartu, the student capital of Estonia, finally arriving at the university where he meets his fellow students working on different projects. The video can be viewed here.

Springe Verlag just released the book “Biology, Controls and Models of Tree Volatile Organic Compound Emissions” edited by Prof. Ülo Niinemets (Estonian University of Life Sciences) and by Prof. Russell K. Monson (University of Arizona).

            Urban Forestry in Transition – Addressing the needs of changing societies CARE-FOR-US II/GreenMan project conference, Tartu, Estonia 9-11 OCTOBER 2013 Hosted by the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture    

A doctoral student from China, Zhihong Sun defended her PhD thesis „Isoprene emission from aspen (Populus sp.) in relation to environmental drivers“ at EMÜ today. She did her PhD studies at the Department of Plant Physiology under the supervision of Prof. Ülo Niinemets.

A doctoral student from Spain, Miguel Portillo Estrada defended his PhD thesis thesis „On the relationships between plant litter and the carbon and nitrogen cycles in European forest ecosystems” at EMÜ yesterday. He did his PhD studies at the Department of Plant Physiology under the supervision of Prof. Ülo Niinemets and Dr. Steffen M. Noe.

The conference is held on the occasion of 10 years of scientific collaboration between the Institu...

Estonian University of Life Sciences signed an international project called GreenMan on Monday,...

EMÜ is the only Estonian partner in a European Commission project „3to4“, whos...