Publications

Jakobs I., Schmittmann O., Athmann M., Kautz T., Lammers P. (2019.0). Cereal Response to Deep Tillage and Incorporated Organic Fertilizer. Agronomy, 9(6), 296. doi:10.3390/agronomy9060296

This study examined the effect of stripwise subsoiling and subsoiling combined with the incorporation of organic material on crop development in a two-year field trial with typical weather in the first year and hot, dry weather in the second. Subsoiling and its combination with incorporated organic …

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…

Lemanski K., Armbruster M., Bonkowski M. (2019.0). Linking soil microbial nutrient limitation to fertilizer regime and sugar beet yield. Plant and Soil, 441(1-2), 253-259. doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04114-w

Aim Depending on the availability and stoichiometry of nutrients in soil, microbes and plants can compete for the same resources. In this study we aimed to test how microbial nutrient limitation in agricultural systems can be linked to fertilizer regimes and sugar beet yield. Methods We measured the…

Beule L., Lehtsaar E., Rathgeb A., Karlovsky P. (2019.0). Crop Diseases and Mycotoxin Accumulation in Temperate Agroforestry Systems. Sustainability, 11(10), 2925. doi:10.3390/su11102925

Background: Temperate agroforestry is regarded as a sustainable alternative to monoculture agriculture due to enhanced provisioning of ecosystem services. Plant health and food safety are crucial requirements for sustainable agriculture; however, studies of fungal diseases and mycotoxin contaminatio…

Beuschel R., Piepho H., Joergensen R., Wachendorf C. (2020.0). Effects of converting a temperate short-rotation coppice to a silvo-arable alley cropping agroforestry system on soil quality indicators. Agroforestry Systems, 94(2), 389-400. doi:10.1007/s10457-019-00407-2

Jentsch A., White P. (2019.0). A theory of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecology. Ecology, 100(7), . doi:10.1002/ecy.2734

We propose four postulates as the minimum set of logical propositions necessary for a theory of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecosystems: (1) resource dynamics characterizes the magnitude, rate, and duration of resource change caused by pulse events, including the continuing changes in resources…

Macholdt J., Piepho H., Honermeier B. (2019.0). Does fertilization impact production risk and yield stability across an entire crop rotation? Insights from a long-term experiment. Field Crops Research, 238(), 82-92. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2019.04.014

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…

Gerdes H., Hinzmann M., Kiresiewa Z., Bauke S.L. (). 2019: Workshop-Protokoll: Den Unterboden nutzen, um auf Trockenperioden besser vorbereitet zu sein - Eine Akzeptanzanalyse von Maßnahmen zur Aufwertung des Unterbodens. , (), . doi:10.20387/BonaRes-W02N-H27N

Am 15. Januar 2019 fand in Bonn ein Akteursworkshop unter dem Titel „Den Unterboden nutzen, um auf Trockenperioden besser vorbereitet zu sein - Eine Akzeptanzanalyse von Maßnahmen zur Aufwertung des Unterbodens“ des BMBF-geförderten BonaRes-Vorhabens „Soil³ - Sustainable Subsoil Management“ statt. Z…

Sosa-Hernández M., Leifheit E., Ingraffia R., Rillig M. (2019.0). Subsoil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi for Sustainability and Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Solution Right Under Our Feet?. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10(), . doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00744

With growing populations and climate change, assuring food and nutrition security is an increasingly challenging task. Climate-smart and sustainable agriculture, that is, conceiving agriculture to be resistant and resilient to a changing climate while keeping it viable in the long term, is probably …