Understanding and managing soil biodiversity: a major challenge in agroecology

Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Stability of soil microbial structure and activity depends on microbial diversity

(2013) Vincent Tardy et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome

(2012) Derek S. Lundberg et al.   NATURE

Revealing structure and assembly cues for Arabidopsis root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota

(2012) Davide Bulgarelli et al.   NATURE

Combining ecophysiological and microbial ecological approaches to study the relationship between Medicago truncatula genotypes and their associated rhizosphere bacterial communities

(2012) A. Zancarini et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Evaluation of the ISO Standard 11063 DNA Extraction Procedure for Assessing Soil Microbial Abundance and Community Structure

(2012) Pierre Plassart et al.   PLoS One

Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits

(2011) Maren L. Friesen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Soil microbial diversity: Methodological strategy, spatial overview and functional interest

(2011) Pierre-Alain Maron et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

The bacterial biogeography of British soils

(2011) Robert I. Griffiths et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biogeographical patterns of soil molecular microbial biomass as influenced by soil characteristics and management

(2011) S. Dequiedt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Improvement of Nutritional Quality of Greenhouse-Grown Lettuce by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Is Conditioned by the Source of Phosphorus Nutrition

(2011) Marouane Baslam et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Inter-laboratory evaluation of the ISO standard 11063 “Soil quality — Method to directly extract DNA from soil samples”

(2011) I. Petric et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Earthworm indicators as tools for soil monitoring, characterization and risk assessment. An example from the national Bioindicator programme (France)

(2011) Guénola Pérès et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Inoculants of leguminous crops for mitigating soil emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide

(2011) Catherine Hénault et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Towards food, feed and energy crops mitigating climate change

(2011) Laurent Philippot et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil

(2010) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

Soil microbial diversity: an ISO standard for soil DNA extraction

(2010) Laurent Philippot et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Pyrosequencing Reveals a Highly Diverse and Cultivar-Specific Bacterial Endophyte Community in Potato Roots

(2010) Daniel K. Manter et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Agroecology: the key role of arbuscular mycorrhizas in ecosystem services

(2010) Silvio Gianinazzi et al.   MYCORRHIZA

The biodiversity of beneficial microbe-host mutualism: the case of rhizobia

(2010) Kristina Lindström et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Fungi mediate long term sequestration of carbon and nitrogen in soil through their priming effect

(2010) S. Fontaine et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Biogeography of soil microbial communities: a review and a description of the ongoing french national initiative

(2009) Lionel Ranjard et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Biological measurements in a nationwide soil monitoring network

(2009) M. Rutgers et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Soil biodiversity monitoring in Europe: ongoing activities and challenges

(2009) C. Gardi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses

(2009) Ryan T Jones et al.   ISME Journal

TerraGenome: a consortium for the sequencing of a soil metagenome

(2009) Timothy M. Vogel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Plant-microbe-soil interactions in the rhizosphere: an evolutionary perspective

(2009) Hans Lambers et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Evidence for biological nitrification inhibition in Brachiaria pastures

(2009) G. V. Subbarao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Platform GenoSol: a new tool for conserving and exploring soil microbial diversity

(2009) Lionel Ranjard et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Biogeographical patterns of soil bacterial communities

(2009) Samuel Dequiedt et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Strategies for accessing soil metagenome for desired applications

(2008) J. Rajendhran et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

60Ma of legume nodulation. What's new? What's changing?

(2008) J. I. Sprent   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Global inputs of biological nitrogen fixation in agricultural systems

(2008) David F. Herridge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL