The use of antibiotics is not permitted in Switzerland; moreover, no other medication exists to combat European foul brood. Hives with symptoms must therefore be destroyed in order to limit the outbreak, and the contaminated material must be sanitised. Since prevention is the best cure, early detection is desirable. Numerous studies have been undertaken and documents have been created at the Swiss Bee Research Centre and elsewhere to draw the attention of beekeepers to these problems and inform them about the causes and the control measures to be implemented.

Merkblatt zur erkennung von Bienenbrutkrankheiten (German (PDF, 357 kB, 18.10.2017) and French (PDF, 226 kB, 02.02.2017))
M. Tschumi (2011)

Liste de publications

Institutional Repository Agroscope

Liste de publications

Publications Sebastian Franz Bender

Vukovic D., Bender S. F., van der Heijden M.
Promotion de la biodiversité du sol pour optimiser les cycles d'éléments nutritifs.
Agroscope. Fiche technique No. 246, 2025, 5 pp.
autres langues: allemand | italien

Rog I., Lerner D., Bender S. F., van der Heijden M.
The increased environmental niche of dual‐mycorrhizal woody species.
Ecology Letters, 28, (5), 2025, Article e70132.

Bender S. F., van der Heijden M.
Assessing soil health with underpants.
Science, 387, (6737), 2025, 936.

Lutz S., Bodenhausen N., Bender S. F., Schlaeppi K., van der Heijden M.
Das Gute kommt von unten.
UFA-Revue, 1, 2024, 10-13.

Lutz S., Bender S. F., Bodenhausen N., Schlaeppi K., van der Heijden M.
Mykorrhizapilze für einen gesunden Boden: Nützlinge nutzbar machen.
Der Pflanzenarzt, 1-2, 2024, 6-9.

Veršulienė A., Hirte J., Ciulla F., Camenzind M., Don A., Durand-Maniclas F., Heinemann H., Herrera J. M., Hund A., Seidel F., da Silva-Lopes M., Toleikienė M., Visse-Mansiaux M., Yu K., Bender S. F.
Wheat varieties show consistent differences in root colonization by mycorrhiza across a European pedoclimatic gradient.
European Journal of Soil Science, 75, (4), 2024, 1-8.

Demarmels R., Bender S. F.
Mit vergrabenen Unterhosen die Bodenfruchtbarkeit beurteilen.
Kartoffelbau, 74, (3), 2023, 1-4.

Hartman K., Schmid M. W., Bodenhausen N., Bender S. F., Valzano A., Schlaeppi K., van der Heijden M.
A symbiotic footprint in the plant root microbiome.
Environmental Microbiome, 18, 2023, Article 65.

Anthony M., Bender S. F., van der Heijden M.
Enumerating soil biodiversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, (33), 2023, 1-9.

Bender S. F., Schulz S., Martínez‐Cuesta R., Laughlin R. J., Kublik S., Pfeiffer‐Zakharova K., Vestergaard G., Hartman K., Parladé E., Römbke J., Watson C. J., Schloter M., van der Heijden M.
Simplification of soil biota communities impairs nutrient recycling and enhances above‐ and belowground nitrogen losses.
New Phytologist, 240, (5), 2023, 1-15.

Li X., Zhao R., Li D., Wang G., Bei S., Ju X., An R., Li L., Kuyper T., Christie P., Bender S. F., Veen C., van der Heijden M., van der Putten W. H., Zhang F. et autres
Mycorrhiza-mediated recruitment of complete denitrifying Pseudomonas reduces N2O emissions from soil.
Microbiome, 11, (45), 2023, 1-18.

Eisenhauer N., Bender S. F., Caldéron-Sanou I., de Vries F. T., Lembrechts J. J., Thuiller W., Wall D. H., Zeiss R., Bahram M., Beugnon R., Burton V. J., Crowther T. W., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Geisen S., Kardol P. et autres
Frontiers in soil ecology: Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022.
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 1, (4), 2022, 245-261.

Bender S. F., van der Heijden M.
Soil organisms for healthy soils and sustainable agriculture.
RURAL 21, 56, (2), 2022, 10-12.

Bender S. F.
Pulling the strings from underground? Soil biota and plant growth–defense tradeoffs.
New Phytologist, 233, (3), 2022, 1015-1017.

Bender S. F., Peter N., van der Heijden M.
Des sols sains grâce à la diversité biologique : Protéger les sols et favoriser leurs organismes afin d’ améliorer les conditions de production végétale.
Agroscope, Zürich-Reckenholz. Fiche technique No. 158, août, 2022, 4 pp.
autres langues: allemand | italien