Publications

Nelkner J., Torres Tejerizo G., Hassa J., Lin T., Witte J., Verwaaijen B., Winkler A., Bunk B., Spröer C., Overmann J., Grosch R., Pühler A., Schlüter A. (2019.0). Genetic Potential of the Biocontrol Agent Pseudomonas brassicacearum (Formerly P. trivialis) 3Re2-7 Unraveled by Genome Sequencing and Mining, Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics. Genes, 10(8), 601. doi:10.3390/genes10080601

The genus Pseudomonas comprises many known plant-associated microbes with plant growth promotion and disease suppression properties. Genome-based studies allow the prediction of the underlying mechanisms using genome mining tools and the analysis of the genes unique for a strain by implementing comp…

Nelkner J., Henke C., Lin T., Pätzold W., Hassa J., Jaenicke S., Grosch R., Pühler A., Sczyrba A., Schlüter A. (2019.0). Effect of Long-Term Farming Practices on Agricultural Soil Microbiome Members Represented by Metagenomically Assembled Genomes (MAGs) and Their Predicted Plant-Beneficial Genes. Genes, 10(6), 424. doi:10.3390/genes10060424

To follow the hypothesis that agricultural management practices affect structure and function of the soil microbiome regarding soil health and plant-beneficial traits, high-throughput (HT) metagenome analyses were performed on Chernozem soil samples from a long-term field experiment designated LTE-1…

Paul Chowdhury S., Babin D., Sandmann M., Jacquiod S., Sommermann L., Sørensen S., Fliessbach A., Mäder P., Geistlinger J., Smalla K., Rothballer M., Grosch R. (2019.0). Effect of long‐term organic and mineral fertilization strategies on rhizosphere microbiota assemblage and performance of lettuce. Environmental Microbiology, 21(7), 2426-2439. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14631

Long-term agricultural fertilization strategies gradually change soil properties including the associated microbial communities. Cultivated crops recruit beneficial microbes from the surrounding soil environment via root exudates. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of long-term ferti…

Babin D., Deubel A., Jacquiod S., Sørensen S., Geistlinger J., Grosch R., Smalla K. (2019.0). Impact of long-term agricultural management practices on soil prokaryotic communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 129(), 17-28. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.11.002

The profound intensification of agricultural practices by increased application of agro-chemicals, short crop rotations and ploughing resulted in loss of soil fertility, erosion and accumulation of soil-borne plant pathogens. Soil microbial communities are key players in ecosystem processes and are …

Schlüter S., Großmann C., Diel J., Wu G., Tischer S., Deubel A., Rücknagel J. (2018.0). Long-term effects of conventional and reduced tillage on soil structure, soil ecological and soil hydraulic properties. Geoderma, 332(), 10-19. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.07.001

There is a long-lasting debate about the effects of tillage practices on soil structure and structure-mediated ecosystem properties like hydraulic conductivity and crop productivity. This is investigated in a long-term field experiment on tillage practices at the Westerfeld trial in Bernburg, German…

Sandmann M., Grosch R., Graefe J. (2018.0). The Use of Features from Fluorescence, Thermography, and NDVI Imaging to Detect Biotic Stress in Lettuce. Plant Disease, 102(6), 1101-1107. doi:10.1094/pdis-10-17-1536-re

Fluorescence, normalized difference vegetation index, and thermal imaging are three frequently used nondestructive methods to detect biotic stress in plants. Due, in part, to the inconsistent results reported in the literature and the lack of measurements on the whole-plant scale, we tested the suit…

Sommermann L., Geistlinger J., Wibberg D., Deubel A., Zwanzig J., Babin D., Schlüter A., Schellenberg I. (2018.0). Fungal community profiles in agricultural soils of a long-term field trial under different tillage, fertilization and crop rotation conditions analyzed by high-throughput ITS-amplicon sequencing. PLOS ONE, 13(4), e0195345. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195345

Windisch S., Bott S., Ohler M., Mock H., Lippmann R., Grosch R., Smalla K., Ludewig U., Neumann G. (2017.0). Rhizoctonia solani and Bacterial Inoculants Stimulate Root Exudation of Antifungal Compounds in Lettuce in a Soil-Type Specific Manner. Agronomy, 7(2), 44. doi:10.3390/agronomy7020044