[HTML][HTML] Rhizobiome engineering: Unveiling complex rhizosphere interactions to enhance plant growth and health

M del Carmen Orozco-Mosqueda, AE Fadiji… - Microbiological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop plants are affected by a series of inhibitory environmental and biotic factors that
decrease their growth and production. To counteract these adverse effects, plants work …

Impact of soil organic matter on soil properties—a review with emphasis on Australian soils

BW Murphy - Soil Research, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
A review has been undertaken into how soil organic matter (SOM) affects a range of soil
properties that are important for the productive capacity of soils. The potential effect of …

How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

N Fierer, SA Wood, CPB de Mesquita - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Healthy soils are critical to the health of ecosystems, economies, and human populations.
Thus, it is widely acknowledged that soil health is important to quantify, both for assessment …

Consistent and correctable bias in metagenomic sequencing experiments

MR McLaren, AD Willis, BJ Callahan - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Marker-gene and metagenomic sequencing have profoundly expanded our ability to
measure biological communities. But the measurements they provide differ from the truth …

[HTML][HTML] The life of soils: Integrating the who and how of multifunctionality

RE Creamer, JM Barel, G Bongiorno… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Capturing the complexity of soil life for soil quality assessments is one of the most
challenging paradoxes of contemporary soil science. Soil biota perform a plethora of …

Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function

RW Brown, DR Chadwick, H Thornton… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastics are now widespread in the natural environment. Due to their size, microplastics
(MPs; defined as particles< 5 mm) in particular, have the potential to cause damage and …

Below‐ground connections underlying above‐ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere

FT de Vries, MD Wallenstein - Journal of Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Healthy soils that contain an active microbiome and food web are critical to sustainably
produce food for a growing global human population. Many studies have focussed on the …

Fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance during digestion and composting: a review

CP Youngquist, SM Mitchell… - … of Environmental Quality, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotics and antibiotic‐resistant bacteria (ARB) enter the environment through municipal
and agricultural waste streams and pose a potential risk to human and livestock health …

Long-term fertilizer and crop-rotation treatments differentially affect soil bacterial community structure

C Soman, D Li, MM Wander, AD Kent - Plant and Soil, 2017 - Springer
Background and aims Soil microbial communities influence nutrient cycling, chemistry and
structure of soil, and plant productivity. In turn, agronomic practices such as fertilization and …

Attribution of crop yield responses to application of organic amendments: A critical review

C Celestina, JR Hunt, PWG Sale, AE Franks - Soil and Tillage Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter affects soil physical, chemical and biological properties and is thus
agronomically important because these factors affect crop yields. Organic amendments such …