Article
Agronomy
Javier Palomino, Pablo Garcia-Palacios, Gerlinde B. B. De Deyn, Laura Beatriz Martinez-Garcia, Sara Sanchez-Moreno, Ruben Milla
Summary: Plant domestication has led to changes in leaf litter quality, affecting decomposition and soil decomposer communities. Domesticated litters decompose faster and have different impacts on soil bacteria, fungi, and nematodes.
Review
Plant Sciences
Gary Harman, Ram Khadka, Febri Doni, Norman Uphoff
Summary: Enhanced Plant Holobionts (EPHs) refer to crop plants with introduced organisms in their roots, which exhibit improved disease and pest resistance, stress tolerance, nutrient acquisition, photosynthetic capability, and cellular functioning. Microbes in EPHs produce Symbiont-Associated Molecular Patterns (SAMPs) that interact with plant cell receptors, leading to systemic signaling and plant-wide changes. Benefits from EPHs also come from interactions between microbes, such as competition, mycoparasitism, and antibiotic production, ultimately increasing plant yield and carbon sequestration potential.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiaoan Zuo, Shanshan Sun, Shaokun Wang, Ping Yue, Ya Hu, Shengnlong Zhao, Xinxin Guo, Xiangyun Li, Min Chen, Xujun Ma, Hao Qu, Weigang Hu, Xueyong Zhao, Ginger R. H. Allington
Summary: Soil microbe diversity is influenced by altered precipitation and plant biodiversity attributes such as species richness and plant height, as well as soil properties like soil water content, in desert-shrub and steppe-grass communities. The effects of precipitation on soil bacterial and fungal richness are mediated differently by plant biodiversity attributes and soil properties along natural and experimental gradients. Long- and short-term precipitation changes have the potential to modify the relationship between plant and soil microbial diversity in water-limited areas.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Seth Lundell, Amgaa Batbaatar, Cameron N. Carlyle, Eric G. Lamb, Rafael Otfinowski, Michael P. Schellenberg, Jonathan A. Bennett
Summary: Soil biota play a critical role in plant growth, population dynamics, and community structure, particularly during stressful periods such as drought. The response of soil biota to drought and its effects on plant growth and further drought may depend on the diversity and productivity of the plant community.
Article
Forestry
Sam Fox, Melanie K. Taylor, Mac Callaham Jr, Ari Jumpponen
Summary: This study investigated the impact of different fire frequencies on soil systems and found that only the A horizon was significantly affected by the prescribed fire interval manipulation. The richness and composition of microbial communities in the A horizon differed between the burned treatments and the unburned control. Soil chemistry changes were also observed in the A horizon, with higher levels of certain nutrients in the burned treatments compared to the fire exclusion treatment. The results indicate that long-term changes in fire frequencies can induce shifts in the soil microbial community.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Thaisa Duarte Santos, Eliana Badiale Furlong
Summary: The occurrence of biological contaminants in common beans presents a challenge for food safety, as they can impact crop yield and human health in various ways, requiring further research to reduce risks.
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hans Ammitzboll, Gregory J. Jordan, Susan C. Baker, Jules Freeman, Andrew Bissett
Summary: Understanding the effects of logging and fire on forest soil communities is crucial for forest ecology and resource management. Research in Tasmania showed that burn severity is a strong driver of soil microbial community composition, with logging and high severity burning reducing the diversity and biomass of soil bacteria and fungi. The impact of disturbance on microbial community composition is greater than site-to-site edaphic differences, and fire leads to more significant divergence in community composition than logging alone.
Article
Ecology
Laurel M. Brigham, Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita, Jane G. Smith, Samuel A. Sartwell, Steven K. Schmidt, Katharine N. Suding
Summary: In a long-term experiment in the Front Range of Colorado, researchers found that the effects of nitrogen deposition on soil microbial communities were uncoupled from the response of plant communities, indicating a lack of strong cascading effects of nitrogen deposition across the plant-soil interface in their system.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Elena Piano, Federico Biagioli, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Claudia Coleine, Anna Poli, Valeria Prigione, Andrea Zanellati, Rosangela Addesso, Giovanna Cristina Varese, Laura Selbmann, Marco Isaia
Summary: Anthropogenic disturbance on natural ecosystems is increasing, affecting all components of the ecosystems. A metacommunity framework is needed to understand the response of different biocoenosis types to human disturbance. Through advanced molecular techniques, sediment communities of Fungi, Bacteria, and Archaea in Italian show caves were investigated to unravel the effects of tourism on their diversity and identify changes in the driving forces of community composition. The study showed that cave tourism directly affects the community of Bacteria and indirectly influences Fungi and Archaea.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Jun Yan, Youzheng Zhang, Kerri M. Crawford, Xiaoyong Chen, Shuo Yu, Jihua Wu
Summary: Our study found that the effects of plant genotypic diversity on belowground plant biomass and soil nematode communities are not coupled. Decreasing plant genotypic diversity reduces the abundance of lower trophic level nematodes, as well as the functional indices and stability of the soil food web.
Article
Soil Science
Anqi Sun, Xiao-Yan Jiao, Qinglin Chen, Ai-Lian Wu, Yong Zheng, Yong-Xin Lin, Ji-Zheng He, Hang-Wei Hu
Summary: Fertilization significantly influences the diversity and composition of sorghum-associated microbial communities, particularly in rhizosphere and bulk soil microbiomes. Specific genera of bacteria and fungi are important predictors of sorghum yield and protein content. Fertilization has a positive indirect effect on sorghum yield and protein content through influencing microbial diversity in soil microbiota.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Keyvan Esmaeilzadeh-Salestani, Mohammad Bahram, Rahele Ghanbari Moheb Seraj, Daniyal Gohar, Masoud Tohidfar, Viacheslav Eremeev, Liina Talgre, Banafsheh Khaleghdoust, Seyed Mahyar Mirmajlessi, Anne Luik, Evelin Loit
Summary: Research indicates that long-term crop rotation can increase the diversity of soil bacteria and fungi. The use of nitrogen rates and cover crops also have an impact on soil microbial communities.
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
William D. Eaton, Katie M. McGee, Robert Donnelly, Alex Lemenze, Morgan Larimer, Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Summary: This study found that logging road soils had significantly higher bulk density and clay content, and lower levels of sand, total nitrogen, nitrate, total organic carbon, and microbial quotients compared to road edge and forest soils. Bacterial community compositions were similar between road edge and forest soils, but different from logging road soils. Fungal community compositions were unique within each of the three areas sampled.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Michael Tessler, Felix J. David, Seth W. Cunningham, Emily M. Herstoff
Summary: Lawns, although beneficial for carbon storage, can have negative impacts on the environment due to frequent mowing, CO2 pollution, and reduction of native plants. Meadow restoration as an alternative to lawns leads to higher microbial biodiversity and different soil characteristics, such as optimal chemistry for plant growth. These findings highlight the benefits of meadow restoration for biodiversity and soil health.
Article
Soil Science
Tijana Martinovic, Tereza Masinova, Ruben Lopez-Mondejar, Jan Jansa, Martina Stursova, Robert Starke, Petr Baldrian
Summary: Forest soil processes carried out by microorganisms are critical for the global carbon cycle. This study investigated the utilization of different carbon sources by microorganisms in temperate forest soils using stable-isotope probing. The results showed that low-molecular-mass compounds were readily respired, while carbon from biopolymers was more incorporated into microbial biomass. Different microbial communities targeted various carbon sources, with bacteria being more versatile and fungi being more specialized.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Rob J. Lewis, Francesco de Bello, Jonathan A. Bennett, Pavel Fibich, Genevieve E. Finerty, Lars Gotzenberger, Inga Hiiesalu, Liis Kasari, Jan Leps, Maria Majekova, Ondrej Mudrak, Kersti Riibak, Argo Ronk, Terezie Rychtecka, Alena Vitova, Meelis Partel
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jonathan A. Bennett, Hafiz Maherali, Kurt O. Reinhart, Ylva Lekberg, Miranda M. Hart, John Klironomos
Article
Ecology
Jonathan A. Bennett, Meelis Partel
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Jonathan A. Bennett, James F. Cahill
Article
Ecology
Jonathan A. Bennett, John Klironomos
Review
Plant Sciences
Jonathan A. Bennett, John Klironomos
Article
Plant Sciences
Jonathan A. Bennett
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Eric Vukicevich, D. Thomas Lowery, Jonathan A. Bennett, Miranda Hart
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Gisela C. Stotz, James F. Cahill, Jonathan A. Bennett, Cameron N. Carlyle, Edward W. Bork, Diana Askarizadeh, Sandor Bartha, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Leslie Brown, Marcelo Cabido, Giandiego Campetella, Stefano Chelli, Ofer Cohen, Sandra Diaz, Lucas Enrico, David Ensing, Batdelger Erdenetsetseg, Alessandra Fidelis, Heath W. Garris, Hugh A. L. Henry, Anke Jentsch, Mohammad Hassan Jouri, Kadri Koorem, Peter Manning, Randall Mitchell, Mari Moora, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Jason Pither, Kurt O. Reinhart, Marcelo Sternberg, Radnaakhand Tungalag, Sainbileg Undrakhbold, Margaretha van Rooyen, Camilla Wellstein, Martin Zobel, Lauchlan H. Fraser
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2020)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Kersti Riibak, Jonathan A. Bennett, Ene Kook, Ulle Reier, Riin Tamme, C. Guillermo Bueno, Meelis Partel
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2020)
Article
Agronomy
Lei Ren, Jonathan A. Bennett, Bruce Coulman, Jushan Liu, Bill Biligetu
Summary: The study assessed alfalfa yield improvement in the Canadian prairies, finding a significant increase in regrowth yield under irrigation. Precipitation from April to June was identified as the most important driver for forage yield at rain-fed sites.
GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Justine Karst, James Franklin, Andrea Simeon, Ashley Light, Jonathan A. Bennett, Nadir Erbilgin
Summary: By studying mature aspen in 27 sites in western Canada, it was found that root systems were mainly ectomycorrhizal, with abundance in subsoils positively correlated with a climate moisture index. Ectomycorrhizal root abundance coincided with leaf quality, while soil carbon and nitrogen pools were unrelated to ectomycorrhizal root abundance.
Article
Plant Sciences
Jonathan A. Bennett, Meelis Partel
Summary: Functional traits can help improve predictions of plant establishment by inferring species' environmental tolerances and competitive abilities. Differences in traits between observed and absent species among regional, site-specific, and local pools can assist in predicting species establishment. However, predicting biotic interactions may be challenging in multi-scale models of community assembly.
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Mieke van der Heyde, Jonathan A. Bennett, Jason Pither, Miranda Hart
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
(2017)