Thonar Cécile

Activity areas

Plant symbiosis
Plant nutrition

Projects

Sur-la-Croix: Protein quality of wheat (HPTLC)
FP7 NUE-CROPS: Nutrient use efficiency of wheat: interaction of variety x farming system

Training / professional career

Since June 2011: Scientific collaborator at FiBL, Frick
2010 - 2011: Postdoc fellowship at TSBF-CIAT, Nairobi (Kenya)
2009 - 2010: Postdoc at Swiss federal research centre Changins (Switzerland)
2005 - 2009: PhD in the group of Plant Nutrition (Prof. E. Frossard and Dr. Jan Jansa), ETH Zürich. PhD title: "Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities, establishment and functionning"

Publications

Publications that are not in the database Organic Eprints:

2011

Thonar, C. Erb, A. Jansa, J.
Real-time PCR to quantify composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities – marker design, verification, calibration and field validation. Molecular Ecology Resources.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03086.x
Lendenmann, M, Thonar, C. Barnard, R.L. Salmon, Y. Werner, R.A.Frossard, E.Jansa,J: Symbiont identiy matters: carbon and phosphorus fluxes between Medicago truncatula and different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Mycorrhiza, DOI: 10.1007/s00572-011-0371-5

2010

Thonar, C. Schnepf, A. Frossard, E. Roose, T. Jansa, J: Traits related to differences in function among three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil 339, 231-245.

2009 (Dissertation)

Thonar, C: Synthetic mycorrhizal communities-etastablishment and functioning.
ETH Diss Nr. 18375

2006

Thonar, C. Liners, F. Van Cutsem, P: Polymorphism and modulation of cell wall esterase enzyme activities in the chicory root during the growing season. Journal of Experimental Botany 57, 81-89