Categories: forest trees

  • Professor Torgny Näsholm has developed a sustainable fertilizer which ensures a well developed root system as well as faster establishment and growth. Photo: Johan Gunséus.

    Bumpy road to breakthrough

    Professor Torgny Näsholm received the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2018 for the discovery that pine, spruce, and other plants can take up different kinds of organic nitrogen from the soil. He has also developed sustainable fertilizers. Torgny Näsholm says that the success is a result of a great teamwork but we would not have succeeded without all the mistakes along the road.

  • Ronald R. Sederoff, recipient of the 2017 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, and Jack Saddler, member of the MWP Selection Committee. (photo: Mitchell Costa)

    Forest molecular genetics to improve the quality of trees

    Better quality and higher productivity are the incentives for molecular genetics of forest trees. Ronald R. Sederoff is awarded the 2017 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his breakthroughs in developing methods for gene discovery in conifer species and exploiting new breeding technologies for improved properties.

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