Mette Svenning

Instituttleder/Professor

Telefon (+47)
776 44432/917 40426

E-post
mette.svenning@ib.uit.no

Faggruppe
plfys/mik

Kontor/besøk
2205

Forskningsinteresser

- Genetic diversity in indigenous soil populations of rhizobia and methanotrophs.
- Interactions between agricultural important legumes with the rhizobia soil
population.
- Performance and pesistence of rhizobia strains.
- Adaptation to subarctic and arctic climate.

Publikasjoner

Svenning, M.M., Junttila, O. and Solheim, B. 1991. Symbiotic growth of indigenous white clover (Trifolium repens) with local Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii. Physiologia Plantarum 83: 381-389.

Junttila, O., Svenning, M.M. and Solheim, B. 1990. Effects of temperature and photoperiod on vegetative growth of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) ecotypes. Physiologia Plantarum 79: 427-434. 3

Junttila, O., Svenning, M.M. and Solheim, B. 1990. Effects of temperature and photoperiod on cold hardiness of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) ecotypes. Physiologia Plantarum 79: 435-438.

Sandli, N., Svenning, M.M., Røsnes, K. and Junttila, O. 1993. Effect of nitrogen supply on frost resistance, nitrogen
metabolism and carbohydrate content in white clover (Trifolium repens). Physiologia Plantarum 88: 661-667.

Svenning, M. M., Sandli, N. and Junttila, O. 1993. Development of frost hardiness in white clover (Trifolium repens) as
affected by temperature and nitrogen. In: Crop adaptation to cool, wet, climates Eds Wilson, D., Thomas, H. and Pithan,
K.1993. ISBN 2-87263-102.X, Cost 814.

Junttila, O., Svenning, M. M. and Røsnes, K. 1995. Influence of nitrogen source on growth and frost resistance of timothy (Phleum pratense L.) and white clover (Trifolium repens L.) Acta Agriculturae Scandinavia, 45.

Svenning, M.M., Junttila, O. and Macduff, J. H. 1996. Differential rates of inhibition of N2 fixation by sustained low concentrations of NH3+ and NO3- in northern ecotypes of white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Journal of Experimental Botany 47: 729-738.

Svenning, M.M. and Macduff, J. H. 1996. Low root temperature retardation and mineral nitrogen induced decline in N2 fixation by a northern ecotype of white clover. Annals of Botany 77: 615-621.

Svenning, M.M., Røsnes, K. and Junttila O. 1997. Frost tolerance and biochemical changes during acclimation and
deacclimation in contrasting white clover populations(Trifolium repens L). Physiologia Plantarum 101: 31-37.

Bouchart V., Macduff, J.H., Ourry, A., Svenning, M.M., Gay, A.P., Simon, J.-C. and Boucaud J. 1998. Seasonal pattern of accumulation of storage copunds in Trifolium repens L. stolons, and effects of low temperature. Physiologia Plantarum 104: 65-74.

Rasmussen, U. and Svenning, M.M. 1998. Fingerprinting of cyanobacteria based on PCR with primers derived from short and long tandemly repeated repetitive sequences. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64: 265-272.

Rasmussen U. and Svenning M.M. 2000. Genetics of Nostoc in relation to host plant species. In: Nitrogen Fixation from molecules to crop productivity. F.O. Pedrosa, M. Hungria, M.G. Yates and W.E. Newton eds.Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Svenning M.M., Røsnes K., Lund L. and Junttila O. 2001. Vegetative growth and freezing tolerance of white clover
(Trifolium repens L.) genotypes from Svalbard. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavia. Section B, Soil and Plant Sciences 51: 10-16.

Rasmussen U. and Svenning M. M. 2001. Characterization of symbiotic Nostoc strains by genotypic methods. Archives of Microbiology.176: 204-210.

Svenning, M.M, Gudmundsson J., Fagerli I.L and Leinonen P. 2001. Competition for nodule occupancy between introduced strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii and its influence on plant production. Annals of Botany 88: 781-782.

Svenning M.M., Hestnes, A.-G., Wartiainen I., and Binnerup S.J. 2003. Isolation of methane oxidising bacteria from soil by use of soil substrate membrane system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 44: 347-354.

Wartiainen I., Hestnes A.G. and Svenning M.M. 2003. Methanotrophic diversity in high arctic wetland on the islands of Svalbard (Norway) - denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of soil DNA and enrichment cultures. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 49: 602-612.

Duodu, S., Bhuvaneswari, T.V., Gudmundsson, J.and Svenning, M. M:. Symbiotic and saprophytic survival of three unmarked Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii strains introduced into the field, Environmental Microbiology 7: 1049-1058.

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