Pathways to persistence: plant root traits alter carbon accumulation in different soil carbon pools

Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli

(2019) Alberto Canarini et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Quantifying the relationships between soil fraction mass, fraction carbon, and total soil carbon to assess mechanisms of physical protection

(2019) Alison E. King et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Modular Traits of the Rhizobiales Root Microbiota and Their Evolutionary Relationship with Symbiotic Rhizobia

(2018) Ruben Garrido-Oter et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Linking conifer root growth and production to soil temperature and carbon supply in temperate forests

(2018) Y. Wang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The root of the matter: Linking root traits and soil organic matter stabilization processes

(2018) Vincent Poirier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Feed Your Friends: Do Plant Exudates Shape the Root Microbiome?

(2018) Joelle Sasse et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root exudation rate as functional trait involved in plant nutrient-use strategy classification

(2018) Julien P. Guyonnet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

(2018) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   GEODERMA

Soil carbon 4 per mille

(2017) Budiman Minasny et al.   GEODERMA

Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

(2017) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rhizodeposition under drought is controlled by root growth rate and rhizosphere water content

(2017) Maire Holz et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Linking above- and belowground phenology of hybrid walnut growing along a climatic gradient in temperate agroforestry systems

(2017) Awaz Mohamed et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

An evaluation of inexpensive methods for root image acquisition when using rhizotrons

(2017) Awaz Mohamed et al.   Plant Methods

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate-smart soils

(2016) Keith Paustian et al.   NATURE

Seedling root responses to soil moisture and the identification of a belowground trait spectrum across three growth forms

(2016) Julie E. Larson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root structure-function relationships in 74 species: evidence of a root economics spectrum related to carbon economy

(2016) Catherine Roumet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Grain legume-based rotations managed under conventional tillage need cover crops to mitigate soil organic matter losses

(2016) Daniel Plaza-Bonilla et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Diversity effects on root length production and loss in an experimental grassland community

(2015) Liesje Mommer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Contribution of exudates, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and litter depositions to the rhizosphere priming effect induced by grassland species

(2015) Tanvir Shahzad et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Climate Change

Similar composition but differential stability of mineral retained organic matter across four classes of clay minerals

(2014) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Roots contribute more to refractory soil organic matter than above-ground crop residues, as revealed by a long-term field experiment

(2011) Thomas Kätterer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Prediction of in situ root decomposition rates in an interspecific context from chemical and morphological traits

(2011) Maurice Aulen et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

A Novel Image-Analysis Toolbox Enabling Quantitative Analysis of Root System Architecture

(2011) Guillaume Lobet et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Are root exudates more important than other sources of rhizodeposits in structuring rhizosphere bacterial communities?

(2010) Paul G. Dennis et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Old and stable soil organic matter is not necessarily chemically recalcitrant: implications for modeling concepts and temperature sensitivity

(2010) MARKUS KLEBER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: Evidences from a 13C labelled-leaf litter experiment

(2010) M. Rubino et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Asynchronicity in root and shoot phenology in grasses and woody plants

(2009) DIEGO F. STEINAKER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface

(2009) D. L. Jones et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation

(2008) D. A. Fornara et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

13C and 15N stabilization dynamics in soil organic matter fractions during needle and fine root decomposition

(2008) Jeffrey A. Bird et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY