Applications of Computed Tomography (CT) in environmental soil and plant sciences

H Zhang, H He, Y Gao, A Mady, V Filipović… - Soil and Tillage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Computed tomography (CT) in combination with advanced image processing can be used to
non-invasively and non-destructively visualize complex interiors of living and non-living …

Opportunities and limits in imaging microorganisms and their activities in soil microhabitats

C Védère, LV Gonod, N Nunan, C Chenu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The soil microhabitat is a heterogeneous and complex environment where local variations
can modulate phenomena observed at the plot scale. Most of the current methods used to …

[HTML][HTML] Substrate spatial heterogeneity reduces soil microbial activity

A Shi, A Chakrawal, S Manzoni, BMC Fischer… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil heterogeneity influences microbial access to substrates and creates habitats varying in
substrate concentrations, thus leading to local variations in carbon (C) dynamics. Based on …

Response of cbbL-harboring microorganisms to precipitation changes in a naturally-restored grassland

N Li, B Wang, Y Huang, Q Huang, F Jiao… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of the long-term uneven precipitation distribution model on the diversity and
community composition of soil C-fixing microorganisms in arid and semiarid grasslands …

Different effects of taproot and fibrous root crops on pore structure and microbial network in reclaimed soil

X Jiang, X Zhong, G Yu, X Zhang, J Liu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the effects of plant roots on the pore structure and microbial community of
soil is crucial to recovery and improve soil productivity in mining areas. This study aims to …

Understanding the joint impacts of soil architecture and microbial dynamics on soil functions: Insights derived from microscale models

V Pot, X Portell, W Otten, P Garnier… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decades, a new generation of microscale models has been developed to
simulate soil microbial activity. An earlier article (Pot et al., 2021) presented a detailed …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome analysis reveals soil microbial community alteration with the effect of animal excretion contamination and altitude in Tibetan Plateau of China

A Li, Y Wang, Y Wang, H Dong, Q Wu… - International Soil and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The fertile forages in the Tibetan Plateau provide natural conditions for animal husbandry,
whereas it is still unclear that whether animal excretion can result in the alteration of soil …

Bottom-up perspective–The role of roots and rhizosphere in climate change adaptation and mitigation in agroecosystems

TS George, D Bulgarelli, A Carminati, Y Chen, D Jones… - Plant and Soil, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background and Aims Climate change is happening and causing severe impact on
the sustainability of agroecosystems. We argue that many of the abiotic stresses associated …

The successional trajectory of bacterial and fungal communities in soil are fabricated by yaks' excrement contamination in plateau, China

Z Shang, Y Wang, M An, X Chen, MFA Kulyar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The soil microbiome is crucial in determining contemporary realistic conditions for future
terrestrial ecological and evolutionary development. However, the precise mechanism …

Root biology never sleeps

CN Carley, G Chen, KK Das, BM Delory… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural ecosystems and agricultural production have been threatened by multifaceted
global environmental changes. Soil degradation, extreme drought and flooding events …