Publications

Kumar A., Shahbaz M., Koirala M., Blagodatskaya E., Seidel S., Kuzyakov Y., Pausch J. (2019). Root trait plasticity and plant nutrient acquisition in phosphorus limited soil. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(6), 945-952. doi:10.1002/jpln.201900322

To overcome soil nutrient limitation, many plants have developed complex nutrient acquisition strategies including altering root morphology, root hair formation or colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The interactions of these strategies and their plasticity are, however, affected by …

Schneider F., Don A. (2019). Root-restricting layers in German agricultural soils. Part I: extent and cause. Plant and Soil, 442(1-2), 433-451. doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04185-9

Aims Root-restricting layers pose a barrier to vertical root elongation. The German Agricultural Soil Inventory was used to assess the extent, cause and effect of root-restricting layers in German agricultural soils. Methods The following causes for root restriction were considered: bedrock, rock fr…

Schneider F., Don A. (2019). Root-restricting layers in German agricultural soils. Part II: Adaptation and melioration strategies. Plant and Soil, 442(1-2), 419-432. doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04186-8

Aims In many agricultural soils in Germany, elongation of deep roots is restricted by compactness, anoxia and acidity. This study examined the adaptation and melioration strategies of farmers who cultivate sites with such root-restricting layers (RRLs). Methods The German Agricultural Soil Inventory…

Sosa-Hernández M., Leifheit E., Ingraffia R., Rillig M. (2019). Subsoil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi for Sustainability and Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Solution Right Under Our Feet?. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10(), . doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00744

With growing populations and climate change, assuring food and nutrition security is an increasingly challenging task. Climate-smart and sustainable agriculture, that is, conceiving agriculture to be resistant and resilient to a changing climate while keeping it viable in the long term, is probably …

Seidel S., Barfus K., Gaiser T., Nguyen T., Lazarovitch N. (2019). The influence of climate variability, soil and sowing date on simulation-based crop coefficient curves and irrigation water demand. Agricultural Water Management, 221(), 73-83. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2019.02.007

Roy J., Mazel F., Sosa‐Hernández M., Dueñas J., Hempel S., Zinger L., Rillig M. (2019). The relative importance of ecological drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal distribution varies with taxon phylogenetic resolution. New Phytologist, 224(2), 936-948. doi:10.1111/nph.16080

The phylogenetic depth at which arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi harbor a coherent ecological niche is unknown, which has consequences for operational taxonomic unit (OTU) delineation from sequence data and the study of their biogeography. We tested how changes in AM fungi community composition acr…