The gap between current average global wheat yields and that achievable through best agronomic management and crop genetics is large. This is notable in intensive wheat rotations which are widely used. Expectations are that this gap can be reduced by manipulating soil processes, especially those that involve microbial ecology. Cross-year analysis of the soil microbiome in an intensive wheat cro...

Rhizosphere soil can play a central role in the maintenance of the soil–plant system and influencing the biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems. However, rhizospheric studies in situ to understand the ecosystem functions are still lacking. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were to examine the differences in the chemical properties such as the pH, organic C, exchangeable base cations ...

abstractin order to study the changes in chemical forms of zinc in the rhizosphere of two tuber plants and their relationship to plant uptake in a polluted soil, sequential (tessier et al., 1979) and single step extraction methods were used. in this research, three radish cultivars (raphanus sativus) and two turnip (brassica rapa) cultivars were planted in a complete randomized design pot exper...

Root and rhizosphere research has been conducted for many decades, but the underlying strategy of root/rhizosphere processes and management in intensive cropping systems remain largely to be determined. Improved grain production to meet the food demand of an increasing population has been highly dependent on chemical fertilizer input based on the traditionally assumed notion of 'high input, hig...

Soils and soil-borne microbial communities are probably the greatest source of organismal diversity on Earth. In this soil matrix, plant roots and the soil impacted by those roots – the rhizosphere – host a great diversity of fungi. Fungal community composition in soil and rhizosphere has been assessed by growing fungi from environmental samples in different pure culture media. These studies ha...

UNLABELLED We investigated communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the roots and the rhizosphere soil of Brachypodium retusum in six different natural soils under field conditions. We explored phylogenetic patterns of AMF composition using indicator species analyses to find AMF associated with a given habitat (root versus rhizosphere) or soil type. We tested whether the AMF charact...

Spreading manure containing antibiotics in agriculture is assumed to stimulate the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in soil bacterial populations. Plant roots influencing the soil environment and its microflora by exudation of growth substrates might considerably increase this effect. In this study, the effects of manure from pigs treated with sulfadiazine (SDZ), here called SDZ manure, o...

Enhanced rates of phenanthrene biodegradation were observed in rhizosphere soils (17.2 and 15.5 mg/kg/d for initial and re-spiked additions, respectively) planted with slender oat (Arena barbara Pott ex Link) compared with unplanted bulk soil controls (12.4 and 10.7 mg/ kg/d). Soil microbial populations were characterized using a modified most probable number (MPN) method to determine quantitat...