Root exudates are an essential carrier for material cycling, energy exchange, and
information transfer between the belowground parts of plants and the soil. We synthesize …

A variety of soil factors are known to increase nutrient availability and plant productivity. The
most influential might be the organisms comprising the soil microbial community of the …

Plants produce and release in the surrounding soil, the so-called rhizosphere, a vast variety
of secondary metabolites. Among them, flavonoids are the most studied, mainly for their role …

Plants release a multitude of organic compounds into the rhizosphere, some of which are
flavonoids. These products of secondary metabolism are mainly studied for their antioxidant …

Background Aboveground, plants release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that act as
chemical signals between neighbouring plants. It is now well documented that VOCs emitted …

Despite recent advances in elucidation of natural products in root exudates, there are
significant gaps in our understanding of the ecological significance of products in the …

Rhizobacteria produce an enormous amount of volatile compounds, however, the function of
these metabolites is scarcely understood. Investigations evaluating influences on plants …

Root–soil interactions fundamentally affect the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle and thereby
ecosystem feedbacks to climate change. This study addressed the question of whether the …

Plant legacy effects observed in plant-soil feedback experiments have largely been
attributed to the root or litter material of the previous plant. The legacy effects of …

Many plant-beneficial rhizobacteria have been described in the literature. These have been
isolated from the plant root, where they usually live under conditions of nutrient starvation …