Root exudate cocktails: the link between plant diversity and soil microorganisms?

Plant diversity generates enhanced soil microbial access to recently photosynthesized carbon in the rhizosphere

(2016) Perla Griselle Mellado-Vázquez et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant diversity effects on soil microbial functions and enzymes are stronger than warming in a grassland experiment

(2015) Katja Steinauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

(2015) Madhav Prakash Thakur et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: Concept & review

(2015) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

(2015) Markus Lange et al.   Nature Communications

A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

(2014) Anne Ebeling et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Root exudates mediated interactions belowground

(2014) Feth el Zahar Haichar et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Root exudation and root development of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. cv. Tizian) as affected by different soils

(2014) G. Neumann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Alkane-degrading bacteria at the soil-litter interface: comparing isolates with T-RFLP-based community profiles

(2013) Julia Giebler et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Methods of collection of plant root exudates in relation to plant metabolism and purpose: A review

(2013) Valerie Vranova et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment

(2013) N. Eisenhauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Drought effects on microbial biomass and enzyme activities in the rhizosphere of grasses depend on plant community composition

(2011) Muhammad Sanaullah et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis

(2010) N. Eisenhauer et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Characterisation of microbial communities colonising the hyphal surfaces of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) Tanja R Scheublin et al.   ISME Journal

Is vegetation composition or soil chemistry the best predictor of the soil microbial community?

(2010) Ruth J. Mitchell et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Molecular tools in rhizosphere microbiology—from single-cell to whole-community analysis

(2009) Jan Sørensen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil biotic processes remain remarkably stable after 100-year extreme weather events in experimental grassland and heath

(2008) Juergen Kreyling et al.   PLANT AND SOIL