 Due to the quality of his doctoral work , Moser received a grant from the British Council and , in 1951 , he moved to England , where he stayed for six months . There , he performed research in the laboratory of Jack Harley in Oxford , looking into the symbiosis between fungi and forest trees , and spent some time performing taxonomic studies at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew . After his return to Austria , he was , in 1952 , offered a post at the Federal Institute for Forestry Research at Imst , which he accepted . There , he applied what he had learnt about the symbiosis of fungi and trees to the practical issue of reforestation in the Alps , and developed a method for the use of ectomycorrhizal fungi for the " inoculation " of trees , which later became standard practice around the world . Moser remained with the institute until 1968 . 
