Jizan 2014

In spring 2014, The DARWIN21 team explore the south part of Saudi Arabia and collected a number of desert pioneer plant for microbe research. The team visited Jizan Region. (Arabic: جيزان‎ Jizān) is the second smallest (after Al Bahah) region of Saudi Arabia. It stretches 300 km along the southern Red Sea coast, just north of Yemen. The site at Jizan contained coarse-sandy soil with neutral pH of 7.19