Frossard, Emmanuel
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Emmanuel Frossard has been Associate Professor of Plant Nutrition at the Institute of Plant Sciences at the ETH Zurich since October 1994. Prof. Frossard was born on August 9, 1960 in Cherbourg (F). He studied at the Department of Agriculture and Food Science at the Institut National Polytechnique Lorraine in Nancy, France (ENSAIA-INPL). After completing his doctorate at the ENSAIA INPL, he spent two years as a postdoc fellow in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He became then a member of the Group for Crop Production at the ENSAIA-INPL for seven years before becoming Associate Professor of Plant Nutrition at the ETH Zurich.
Research Interest
Prof. Frossard-s group concentrates largely on 1) determining the availability of anorganic elements for plants using radioisotopes, 2) the dynamics of anorganic elements in the rhizosphere, 3) the effects of the effects of soil preperation on the activity of mycorrhizal fungi and or plant nutrition, 4) the role of microbial biomasses of the microbial biomass on N and P cycles in oil plant systems and 5) the recycling of nutrients in farmyard manure, sewage sludge and compost in agriculture.
Publications
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Soil phoD and phoX alkaline phosphatase gene diversity responds to multiple environmental factors. Ragot SA, Kertesz MA, Mészáros É, Frossard E, Bünemann EK. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2017 Jan;93(1). pii: fiw212. Epub 2016 Oct 12.
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Green manure and long-term fertilization effects on soil zinc and cadmium availability and uptake by wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) at different growth stages. Grüter R, Costerousse B, Bertoni A, Mayer J, Thonar C, Frossard E, Schulin R, Tandy S. Sci Total Environ. 2017 Dec 1;599-600:1330-1343. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.070. Epub 2017 May 15.
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Tropical soils degraded by slash-and-burn cultivation can be recultivated when amended with ashes and compost. Gay-des-Combes JM, Sanz Carrillo C, Robroek BJM, Jassey VEJ, Mills RTE, Arif MS, Falquet L, Frossard E, Buttler A. Ecol Evol. 2017 Jun 12;7(14):5378-5388. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3104. eCollection 2017 Jul.
