Linking ecology and plant pathology to unravel the importance of soil-borne fungal pathogens in species-rich grasslands

Herbaceous plants in the understory of a pitch canker-affected Pinus radiata plantation are endophytically infected with Fusarium circinatum

(2018) L. Hernandez-Escribano et al.   Fungal Ecology

Calling from distance: attraction of soil bacteria by plant root volatiles

(2018) Kristin Schulz-Bohm et al.   ISME Journal

Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

(2018) Jonathan W. Leff et al.   ISME Journal

Disease-induced assemblage of a plant-beneficial bacterial consortium

(2018) Roeland L. Berendsen et al.   ISME Journal

Below-ground resource partitioning alone cannot explain the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship: A field test using multiple tracers

(2018) Annette Jesch et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Lost in diversity: the interactions between soil-borne fungi, biodiversity and plant productivity

(2018) Liesje Mommer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tools of the crook- infection strategies of fungal plant pathogens

(2018) Luis Rodriguez-Moreno et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Suppression of soil-borne Fusarium pathogens of peanut by intercropping with the medicinal herb Atractylodes lancea

(2018) Xiaogang Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Greatest soil microbial diversity found in micro-habitats

(2018) Elizabeth M. Bach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant community evenness responds to spatial plant-soil feedback heterogeneity primarily through the diversity of soil conditioning

(2017) E. R. Jasper Wubs et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Shifts in rhizosphere fungal community during secondary succession following abandonment from agriculture

(2017) S Emilia Hannula et al.   ISME Journal

Co-Variation of Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Different Sorghum Cultivars and Growth Stages is Soil Dependent

(2017) Thiago R. Schlemper et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Differential responses of soil bacteria, fungi, archaea and protists to plant species richness and plant functional group identity

(2017) Sigrid Dassen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Fusarium graminearum: pathogen or endophyte of North American grasses?

(2017) Lotus A. Lofgren et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Soil fungal diversity in natural grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with plant diversity and productivity

(2017) Teng Yang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Disease Suppressive Soils: New Insights from the Soil Microbiome

(2017) Daniel Schlatter et al.   PHYTOPATHOLOGY

The Overlooked Role of Facilitation in Biodiversity Experiments

(2017) Alexandra J. Wright et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Current Insights into the Role of Rhizosphere Bacteria in Disease Suppressive Soils

(2017) Ruth Gómez Expósito et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Disease: A Phylogenetic Perspective

(2016) Gregory S. Gilbert et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Impact of soil heat on reassembly of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere microbiome and plant disease suppression

(2016) Menno van der Voort et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Influence of phylogenetic conservatism and trait convergence on the interactions between fungal root endophytes and plants

(2016) Sevda Haghi Kia et al.   ISME Journal

Plant-soil feedbacks: role of plant functional group and plant traits

(2016) Roeland Cortois et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Challenges and opportunities in harnessing soil disease suppressiveness for sustainable pasture production

(2016) Bryony E.A. Dignam et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Survival trade-offs in plant roots during colonization by closely related beneficial and pathogenic fungi

(2016) Stéphane Hacquard et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenetic congruence between subtropical trees and their associated fungi

(2016) Xubing Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2016) Katja Steinauer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity by Pathogens

(2015) James D. Bever et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Soil Health Paradigms and Implications for Disease Management

(2015) Robert P. Larkin   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Chemotropic sensing in fungus–plant interactions

(2015) David Turrà et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Experimental evidence for an intraspecific Janzen-Connell effect mediated by soil biota

(2015) Xubing Liu et al.   ECOLOGY

Temporal niche differentiation increases the land equivalent ratio of annual intercrops: A meta-analysis

(2015) Yang Yu et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Fungal invasion of the rhizosphere microbiome

(2015) Emilie Chapelle et al.   ISME Journal

Fine-scale belowground species associations in temperate grassland

(2015) Douglas A. Frank et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Fungal pathogen uses sex pheromone receptor for chemotropic sensing of host plant signals

(2015) David Turrà et al.   NATURE

Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities

(2015) Ingrid M. Parker et al.   NATURE

Spatial heterogeneity of plant-soil feedback affects root interactions and interspecific competition

(2015) Marloes Hendriks et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Inhibitory effects of soil biota are ameliorated by high plant diversity

(2015) Lixue Yang et al.   OECOLOGIA

Microbial Invasions: The Process, Patterns, and Mechanisms

(2015) Cyrus Alexander Mallon et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The effect of soil-borne pathogens depends on the abundance of host tree species

(2015) Yu Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Plant-Plant-Microbe Mechanisms Involved in Soil-Borne Disease Suppression on a Maize and Pepper Intercropping System

(2015) Min Yang et al.   PLoS One

Susceptibility Genes 101: How to Be a Good Host

(2014) Chris C.N. van Schie et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Higher plant diversity promotes higher diversity of fungal pathogens, while it decreases pathogen infection per plant

(2014) Tanja Rottstock et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

(2014) Suzanne M. Prober et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Quantitative methods for assessment of the impact of different crops on the inoculum density of Rhizoctonia solani AG2-2IIIB in soil

(2014) Barbara Boine et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY

Back to the future: natural history and the way forward in modern fungal ecology

(2014) Kabir G. Peay   Fungal Ecology

Plant species richness promotes soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in grasslands without legumes

(2014) Wen-Feng Cong et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil Fungal Communities Respond to Grassland Plant Community Richness and Soil Edaphics

(2014) Nicholas LeBlanc et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

(2014) Janneke M. Ravenek et al.   OIKOS

Disentangling global soil fungal diversity

(2014) D. A. Wardle et al.   SCIENCE

Diseases in Intercropping Systems

(2013) Mark A. Boudreau   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Local variation in conspecific plant density influences plant–soil feedback in a natural grassland

(2013) Martine Kos et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant–soil feedback links negative distance dependence and light gradient partitioning during seedling establishment

(2013) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   ECOLOGY

Independent variations of plant and soil mixtures reveal soil feedback effects on plant community overyielding

(2013) Marloes Hendriks et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Determinants of root-associated fungal communities within Asteraceae in a semi-arid grassland

(2013) Jeannine Wehner et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Hidden Host Plant Associations of Soilborne Fungal Pathogens: An Ecological Perspective

(2013) Glenna M. Malcolm et al.   PHYTOPATHOLOGY

Root exudates: the hidden part of plant defense

(2013) Ulrike Baetz et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The influence of host diversity and composition on epidemiological patterns at multiple spatial scales

(2012) Sean M. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY

Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of plant host species and plant community richness on streptomycete community structure

(2012) Matthew G. Bakker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Analysis of a negative plant-soil feedback in a subtropical monsoon forest

(2012) Yu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant diversity improves protection against soil-borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities

(2012) Ellen Latz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant species richness: the world records

(2012) J. Bastow Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Plant-soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity-productivity relationships

(2012) A. Kulmatiski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity

(2012) D. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health

(2012) Roeland L. Berendsen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Plant species diversity for sustainable management of crop pests and diseases in agroecosystems: a review

(2011) Alain Ratnadass et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

The Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 million species?

(2011) Meredith Blackwell   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Farming with fewer pesticides: EU pesticide review and resulting challenges for UK agriculture

(2011) R.J. Hillocks   CROP PROTECTION

Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival

(2011) Michelle H. Hersh et al.   ECOLOGY

Forest species diversity reduces disease risk in a generalist plant pathogen invasion

(2011) Sarah E. Haas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Root responses to nutrients and soil biota: drivers of species coexistence and ecosystem productivity

(2011) Hans de Kroon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial patterns of plant diversity below-ground as revealed by DNA barcoding

(2011) PRASAD R. KESANAKURTI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Deciphering the Rhizosphere Microbiome for Disease-Suppressive Bacteria

(2011) R. Mendes et al.   SCIENCE

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil fungal pathogens and the relationship between plant diversity and productivity

(2010) John L. Maron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Vertical distribution of fungal communities in tallgrass prairie soil

(2010) Ari Jumpponen et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Disease in Natural Plant Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems: Insights into Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

(2010) Helen M. Alexander   PLANT DISEASE

Plant species and soil type cooperatively shape the structure and function of microbial communities in the rhizosphere

(2009) Gabriele Berg et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Pathogen profile update:Fusarium oxysporum

(2009) CAROLINE B. MICHIELSE et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

454 Pyrosequencing analyses of forest soils reveal an unexpectedly high fungal diversity

(2009) M. Buée et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant neighborhood control of arbuscular mycorrhizal community composition

(2009) Natasha Teutsch Hausmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles

(2009) R. J. Rodriguez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term persistence of a positive plant diversity-productivity relationship in the absence of legumes

(2008) Jasper van Ruijven et al.   OIKOS

The rhizosphere: a playground and battlefield for soilborne pathogens and beneficial microorganisms

(2008) Jos M. Raaijmakers et al.   PLANT AND SOIL