Résumé Plants influence the soil system by the large proportion of photosynthesized matters
translocated to the roots and secreted into the soil. This root exudation provides an …

Plant roots are densely colonized by bacteria which form the basis of the rhizosphere
bacterial food web with protozoa as most effective predators. We established a well defined …

Soil microorganisms are largely providing the enzymes for the breakdown of organic matter
and determine the chemical forms of nutrients accessible to plants. However, very little is …

Protozoa stimulate plant growth, but we do not completely understand the underlying
mechanisms, and different hypotheses seek to explain this phenomenon. To test these …

Among the wide range of soil organisms, plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and
earthworms are key players in soil processes and as such exert a profound influence on the …

The abundance of protozoa was greater (10-100 fold) at microsites that were associated
with available carbon and nutrient sources (eg rhizosphere and decomposing residues) …

The influence of grazing by a mixed assemblage of soil protozoa (seven flagellates and one
amoeba) on bacterial community structure was studied in soil microcosms amended with a …

Plant roots are constantly forced to interact with a multitude of root colonising and free-living
microorganisms in the rhizosphere. Rhizosphere microbiology, however, is traditionally split …

English. Plants produce organic resources of different quantity and quality for soil
organisms. In turn, the plant receives nutrients from soil organisms which mediate the …

The effects of simulated aboveground herbivory and phosphate addition to soil on
rhizosphere organisms (arbuscular mychorrhiza (AM), Rhizobium spp., bacteria, protozoa …