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  • 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.

  • Professor Torgny Näsholm receiving the 2018 Marcus Wallenberg Prize from the hands of King Carl XVI Gustaf. Photo: Johan Gunséus.

    The Marcus Wallenberg Prize for findings on the nutrition of trees

    King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the 2018 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million to Professor Torgny Näsholm at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday 24 September 2018. Torgny Näsholm has examined the role of amino acids in supplying the nitrogen required for the growth of forest trees. His work has caused a breakthrough in explaining the nutrition of plants.