Austria’s Mayerthaler appointed CEO at analytics start-up Invenium
27 January, 2021 at 12:04 PM
Posted by: Anasia D mello Mario Mayerthaler of Invenium
Invenium. A majority stake in Invenium was taken over by
A1 Telekom Austria Group in January 2021.
Mayerthaler takes on the CEO role in addition to his responsibilities as head of Innovation at A1 Telekom Austria Group, where he manages and expands the “A1 Start up Campus” and the Group’s intrapreneurship programme.
The high-tech start-up Invenium emerged from a spin-off of Graz University of Technology and the Graz Know-Centre. Invenium offers analysis of movement flows for traffic, smart city, tourism, retail and other sectors, with the special feature of a 1
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According to a study published recently in the scientific journal nature plants, the Graz University of Technology has discovered a bacterium that provides immunity to rice plants against pathogens.
Rice plant immunity
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The scientists at the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at The Graz University of Technology have been studying the microbiome of rice seeds to find the correlation between the health of rice plants and the occurrence of some microorganisms.
The study found a bacterium called Sphingomonas melonis in the seed of rice plants, this bacterium gives them protection against a pathogen called Burkholderia plantarii which are harmful to rice. This study is a breakthrough not just for China but the world at large.