Publications

Beule L., Corre M., Schmidt M., Göbel L., Veldkamp E., Karlovsky P. (2019). Conversion of monoculture cropland and open grassland to agroforestry alters the abundance of soil bacteria, fungi and soil-N-cycling genes. PLOS ONE, 14(6), e0218779. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218779

Beuschel R., Piepho H., Joergensen R., Wachendorf C. (2019). Correction to: Similar spatial patterns of soil quality indicators in three poplar-based silvo-arable alley cropping systems in Germany. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 55(1), 15-16. doi:10.1007/s00374-018-1327-0

Beule L., Lehtsaar E., Rathgeb A., Karlovsky P. (2019). Crop Diseases and Mycotoxin Accumulation in Temperate Agroforestry Systems. Sustainability, 11(10), 2925. doi:10.3390/su11102925

Background: Temperate agroforestry is regarded as a sustainable alternative to monoculture agriculture due to enhanced provisioning of ecosystem services. Plant health and food safety are crucial requirements for sustainable agriculture; however, studies of fungal diseases and mycotoxin contaminatio…

Gypser S., Schütze E., Freese D. (2019). Crystallization of single and binary iron- and aluminum hydroxides affect phosphorus desorption. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(5), 741-750. doi:10.1002/jpln.201700543

In acidic soils, phosphorus availability is affected by its strong affinity for mineral surfaces, especially Fe- and Al-hydroxides. Plant roots have developed adaptive strategies to enhance the availability of phosphorus, including producing and exuding low molecular weight organic acids with a high…

Grunewaldt-Stöcker G., Mahnkopp F., Popp C., Maiss E., Winkelmann T. (2019). Diagnosis of apple replant disease (ARD): Microscopic evidence of early symptoms in fine roots of different apple rootstock genotypes. Scientia Horticulturae, 243(), 583-594. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2018.09.014

Fütterer S., Ewald J. (2019). Die Biotopausstattung der Brunnenkopfalm im Ammergebirge zu Beginn der Wiederbeweidung. Berichte der Bayerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft, 89(), p. 83-104.

Before the onset of a re-grazing experiment vegetation and habitat types of the subalpine pasture Brunnenkopf (Ammergebirge, Bavaria, Germany) were examined and mapped. Vegetation plots with all vascular plants and their cover were recorded for each type. Vegetation types included alpine and subalpi…

Zistl-Schlingmann M., Feng J., Kiese R., Stephan R., Zuazo P., Willibald G., Wang C., Butterbach-Bahl K., Dannenmann M. (2019). Dinitrogen emissions: an overlooked key component of the N balance of montane grasslands. Biogeochemistry, 143(1), 15-30. doi:10.1007/s10533-019-00547-8

Degrune F., Dumack K., Fiore-Donno A., Bonkowski M., Sosa-Hernández M., Schloter M., Kautz T., Fischer D., Rillig M. (2019). Distinct communities of Cercozoa at different soil depths in a temperate agricultural field. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(4), . doi:10.1093/femsec/fiz041

Protists are the most important predators of soil microbes like bacteria and fungi and are highly diverse in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the structure of protistan communities throughout the soil profile is still poorly explored. Here, we used Illumina sequencing to track differences in the rel…

Macholdt J., Piepho H., Honermeier B. (2019). Does fertilization impact production risk and yield stability across an entire crop rotation? Insights from a long-term experiment. Field Crops Research, 238(), 82-92. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2019.04.014

Nelkner J., Henke C., Lin T., Pätzold W., Hassa J., Jaenicke S., Grosch R., Pühler A., Sczyrba A., Schlüter A. (2019). Effect of Long-Term Farming Practices on Agricultural Soil Microbiome Members Represented by Metagenomically Assembled Genomes (MAGs) and Their Predicted Plant-Beneficial Genes. Genes, 10(6), 424. doi:10.3390/genes10060424

To follow the hypothesis that agricultural management practices affect structure and function of the soil microbiome regarding soil health and plant-beneficial traits, high-throughput (HT) metagenome analyses were performed on Chernozem soil samples from a long-term field experiment designated LTE-1…