A concise review of biochar application to agricultural soils to improve soil conditions and fight pollution

M Shaaban, L Van Zwieten, S Bashir, A Younas… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Application of biochar to soil can play a significant role in the alteration of nutrients
dynamics, soil contaminants as well as microbial functions. Therefore, strategic biochar …

[HTML][HTML] Biological control of emerging forest diseases: How can we move from dreams to reality?

S Prospero, L Botella, A Santini, C Robin - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Biological control (BC) is defined as the use of living natural enemies, antagonists, or
competitors (biological control agents) to control other living organisms. In the second half of …

The role of land management and elevation in shaping soil microbial communities: Insights from the Central European Alps

N Praeg, J Seeber, G Leitinger, E Tasser… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last 100 years, climate warming has been affecting the European Alps faster and more
severely than globally observed temperature patterns. Temperature changes are known to …

Advanced research tools for fungal diversity and its impact on forest ecosystem

M Adnan, W Islam, L Gang, HYH Chen - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Fungi are dominant ecological participants in the forest ecosystems, which play a major role
in recycling organic matter and channeling nutrients across trophic levels. Fungal …

Biochar amendments and its impact on soil biota for sustainable agriculture

A Pathy, J Ray, B Paramasivan - Biochar, 2020 - Springer
Beneficial microbes in soil biota are known to enhance plant growth by stimulating the
nutrient supply and by devising certain mechanisms to cope up with the biotic (diseases) or …

Two ectomycorrhizal truffles, Tuber melanosporum and T. aestivum, endophytically colonise roots of non‐ectomycorrhizal plants in natural environments

L Schneider‐Maunoury, A Deveau, M Moreno… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Serendipitous findings and studies on Tuber species suggest that some ectomycorrhizal
fungi, beyond their complex interaction with ectomycorrhizal hosts, also colonise roots of …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing leaf-and root-associated communities of bacteria and fungi across 33 plant orders in a grassland

H Toju, H Kurokawa, T Kenta - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In terrestrial ecosystems, plants interact with diverse taxonomic groups of bacteria and fungi
in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere. Although recent studies based on high-throughput …

[HTML][HTML] Non-host plants: Are they mycorrhizal networks players?

Y Wang, X He, F Yu - Plant Diversity, 2022 - Elsevier
Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) that connect individual plants of the same or
different species together play important roles in nutrient and signal transportation, and plant …

Local endemism and ecological generalism in the assembly of root‐colonizing fungi

JG Maciá‐Vicente, F Popa - Ecological Monographs, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Root‐colonizing fungi form species‐rich assemblages with key functions in principal
ecosystem processes, making them prospectively important players in conservation and …

Asymmetric belowground carbon transfer in a diverse tree community

S Avital, I Rog, S Livne‐Luzon, R Cahanovitc… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mycorrhizal fungi can colonize multiple trees of a single or multiple taxa, facilitating
bidirectional exchange of carbon between trees. Mycorrhiza‐induced carbon transfer was …