Infrastructure
MAGNET facilities are equipped with several secure freezing units where the barcoded samples acquired from soil (National Soil Bank), pure bacterial strains (Microbial Culture Collection) and genetic material (Gene Bank) are stored long-term. MAGNETs facilities are designed for high-throughput soil metagenomics (NGS), quantitative real-time PCR applications, microbial phenotyping and bioinformatic analysis and soil quality assessment
Reference System – provide a reliable reference system based molecular characterization of soil microbial communities
National Soil Genetic Resource Library – build up and store in the long-term a National Soil Genetic Resource Library available to the scientific community
National Microbial Biological Resource Center – initiate the national microbial Biological Resource Center emphasizing plant associated soil microbial communities
Composition of soil – examine the composition of soil microbiome in natural and agricultural soils of Cyprus.

Soil – Biobank

Discovery

Analysis

Protocols



Funded by , RESTART 2016-2020

