Publications

Kamau C., van Duijnen R., Schmid C., Balàzs H., Roy J., Rillig M., Schröder P., Radl V., Temperton V., Schloter M. (2021.0). Impact of high carbon amendments and pre-crops on soil bacterial communities. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 57(2), 305-317. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01526-0

A 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment was carried out to determine the effects of high C amendments (HCAs; wheat straw and sawdust) compared to a control with no addition of HCAs (no-HCA) and 2 different crop rotation systems (spring barley/winter barley and faba bean/winter barley) on soil bacterial…

Schmid C., Reichel R., Schröder P., Brüggemann N., Schloter M. (2020.0). 52 years of ecological restoration following a major disturbance by opencast lignite mining does not reassemble microbiome structures of the original arable soils. Science of The Total Environment, 745(), 140955. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140955

Opencast mining for lignite continuously creates areas of land that require restoration. Here we applied a chronosequence approach to investigate the development of soil bacterial communities during 52 years as influenced by the restoration process and subsequent changes in soil physico-chemical con…

Yang L., Schröder P., Vestergaard G., Schloter M., Radl V. (2020.0). Response of Barley Plants to Drought Might Be Associated with the Recruiting of Soil-Borne Endophytes. Microorganisms, 8(9), 1414. doi:10.3390/microorganisms8091414

Mechanisms used by plants to respond to water limitation have been extensively studied. However, even though the inoculation of beneficial microbes has been shown to improve plant performance under drought stress, the inherent role of soil microbes on plant response has been less considered. In the …

Kumar A., van Duijnen R., Delory B., Reichel R., Brüggemann N., Temperton V. (2020.0). Barley shoot biomass responds strongly to N:P stoichiometry and intraspecific competition, whereas roots only alter their foraging. Plant and Soil, 453(1-2), 515-528. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04626-w

Abstract Aims Root system responses to the limitation of either nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) are well documented, but how the early root system responds to (co-) limitation of one (N or P) or both in a stoichiometric framework is not well-known. In addition, how intraspecific competition alters pl…

Rillig M., Aguilar‐Trigueros C., Anderson I., Antonovics J., Ballhausen M., Bergmann J., Bielcik M., Chaudhary V., Deveautour C., Grünfeld L., Hempel S., Lakovic M., Lammel D., Lehmann A., Lehmann J., Leifheit E., Liang Y., Li E., Lozano Y., Manntschke A., Mansour I., Oviatt P., Pinek L., Powell J.,… (2020.0). Myristate and the ecology of AM fungi: significance, opportunities, applications and challenges. New Phytologist, 227(6), 1610-1614. doi:10.1111/nph.16527

A recent study by Sugiura and coworkers reported the non-symbiotic growth and spore production of an arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus, Rhizophagus irregularis, when the fungus received an external supply of certain fatty acids, myristates (C:14). This discovery follows the insight that AM fungi re…

Wei J., Reichel R., Islam M., Wissel H., Amelung W., Brüggemann N. (2020.0). Chemical Composition of High Organic Carbon Soil Amendments Affects Fertilizer-Derived N2O Emission and Nitrogen Immobilization in an Oxic Sandy Loam. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 8(), . doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.00015

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emission is a negative side effect of modern agriculture and a serious issue for global climate change. The combined application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer and high organic carbon soil amendments (HCA) has been regarded as an alternative to promote fertilizer-related N immobiliza…