Bacterial plant biostimulants: a sustainable way towards improving growth, productivity, and health of crops

B Hamid, M Zaman, S Farooq, S Fatima, RZ Sayyed… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the field of bacterial plant
biostimulants and considers the fundamental and innovative principles underlying this …

Drought stress and root-associated bacterial communities

D Naylor, D Coleman-Derr - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Root-associated bacterial communities play a vital role in maintaining health of the plant
host. These communities exist in complex relationships, where composition and abundance …

Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

A Canarini, H Schmidt, L Fuchslueger, V Martin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of drought events. Recent evidence
indicates that drought may produce legacy effects on soil microbial communities. However, it …

[HTML][HTML] Root exudate metabolomes change under drought and show limited capacity for recovery

A Gargallo-Garriga, C Preece, J Sardans, M Oravec… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Root exudates comprise a large variety of compounds released by plants into the
rhizosphere, including low-molecular-weight primary metabolites (particularly saccharides …

Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states

RD Bardgett, T Caruso - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A major challenge for advancing our understanding of the functional role of soil microbial
communities is to link changes in their structure and function under climate change. To …

Denitrifying pathways dominate nitrous oxide emissions from managed grassland during drought and rewetting

E Harris, E Diaz-Pines, E Stoll, M Schloter, S Schulz… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas whose atmospheric growth rate has accelerated
over the past decade. Most anthropogenic N2O emissions result from soil N fertilization …

Rewetting of soil: revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions

RL Barnard, SJ Blazewicz, MK Firestone - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Rewetting dry soils is associated with a burst of microbial activity and mineralization, which
manifests itself as a pulse in soil CO 2 emissions, long-known as the Birch effect. In arid and …

Rhizodeposition under drought and consequences for soil communities and ecosystem resilience

C Preece, J Peñuelas - Plant and Soil, 2016 - Springer
Background Rhizodeposition is the release of organic compounds from plant roots into soil.
Positive relationships between rhizodeposition and soil microbial biomass are commonly …

Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis

D Gao, E Bai, M Li, C Zhao, K Yu… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Altered drying-rewetting patterns due to climate change may affect soil nitrogen (N) and
phosphorus (P) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. The responses of soil N and P cycling to …

Soil carbon loss regulated by drought intensity and available substrate: A meta-analysis

A Canarini, LP Kiær, FA Dijkstra - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Drought is one of the most important climate change factors, but its effects on ecosystems
are little understood. While known to influence soil carbon (C) cycling, it remains unresolved …