Daniel Schachtman

Professor Agronomy & Horticulture University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Address: BEAD E243
Lincoln NE 68583-0660
Phone: 402-472-1448 On-campus 2-1448
Email: daniel.schachtman@unl.edu
Website: Google Scholar

The Schachtman Lab studies soil microbe interactions with plant roots, with the long term-goal of optimizing root microbes for agriculture. Because agriculture is one of Nebraska’s major industries, researchers focus on crop plants like soybeans, corn and sorghum. They employ both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods to understand how crops shape their root microbiome and to identify microbes that will be useful in agriculture. Culture-independent methods make use of 16S rRNA nif amplicons and next-generation sequencing to determine changes in microbial populations and to generate hypotheses. The Lab’s developing culture collection of bacteria and fungi will be used in mono-association and synthetic community studies to test hypotheses regarding specific microbes.

Graduate student mentorship through the following program:

Department of Agronomy & Horticulture Graduate Program

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