List of Peer Reviewed Publications

2022

  • Bentz, J., Patel, RA., Benard, P., Lieu, A., Haupenthal, A., Kroener, E., (2022): How Heterogeneous Pore Scale Distributions of Wettability Affect Infiltration into Porous Media.
    Water. 2022; 14(7):1110
    DOI: 10.3390/w14071110
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  • Bilyera, N., Hummel, C., Daudin G., Santangeli, M., Zhang, X., Santner, J., Lippold, E., Schlüter, S., Bertrand I., Wenzel, W., Spielvogel, S., Vetterlein, D., Razavi, BS., Oburger, E., (2022): Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition.
    Soil Biol. Biochem. 165 108497
    DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108497
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  • Cai, G., Ahmed, MA., Abdallah, M., Carminati, A., (2022): Root hydraulic phenotypes impacting water uptake in drying soils.
    Plant Cell Environ. 45: 650-663
    DOI: 10.1111/pce.14259
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  • Cai, G., Ahmed, MA., (2022): The role of root hairs in water uptake: recent advances and future perspectives.
    J. Exp. Bot., Vol. 73, No. 11 pp. 3330–3338
    DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac114
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  • Duddek, P., Carminati, A., Koebernick, N.,Ohmann, L.,Lovric, G., Delzon, S., Rodriguez-Dominguez, C. M., King, A., Ahmed, M. A.,: (2022) The impact of drought-induced root and root hair shrinkage on root–soil contact.
    Plant Physiol. 00: 1–5
    DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiac144
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  • Ganther, M., Lippold, E., Bienert, M.D., Bouffaud, M.-L., Bauer, M., Baumann, L., Bienert, G.P., Vetterlein, D., Heintz-Buschart, A., Tarkka, M.T., (2022): Plant Age and Soil Texture Rather Than the Presence of Root Hairs Cause Differences in Maize Resource Allocation and Root Gene Expression in the Field.
    Plants 2022, 11, 2883.
    DOI:10.3390/plants11212883
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  • Ghaderi, N., Schmidt, H., Schlüter, S., Banfield, C., Blagodatskaya, E., (2022): Development of micro‑zymography: Visualization of enzymatic activity at the microscopic scale for aggregates collected from the rhizosphere.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05573-4
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  • Knott, M., Ani, M., Kroener, E., Diehl, D., (2022): Effect of changing chemical environment on physical properties of maize root mucilage.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05577-0
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  • Koehler, T., Moser, D., Botezatu, A., Murugesan, T., Kaliamoorthy, S., Zarebanadkouki, M., Bienert, D.,  Bienert, P., Carminati, A., Kholová J., Ahmed, M., (2022): Going underground: soil hydraulic properties impacting maize responsiveness to water deficit.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05656-2
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  • Lippold, E., Lucas, M., Fahrenkampf, T., Schlüter, S., Vetterlein, D., (2022): Macroaggregates of loam in sandy soil show little influence on maize growth, due to local adaptations of root architecture to soil heterogeneity.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05413-5
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  • Oburger, E., Staudinger, C., Spiridon, A., Benyr V., Aleksza, D., Wenzel, W., Santangeli, M., (2022): A quick and simple spectrophotometric method to determine total carbon concentrations in root exudate samples of grass species.
    Plant Soil
    DOI:10.1007/s11104-022-05519-w
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  • Oburger, E., Schmidt, H., Staudinger, C., (2022): Harnessing belowground processes for sustainable intensification of agricultural systems.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05508-z
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  • Phalempin, M., Landl, M., Wu, G., Schnepf, A., Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S., (2022): Maize root-induced biopores do not influence root growth of subsequently grown maize plants in well aerated, fertilized and repacked soil columns.
    Soil Tillage Res.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2022.105398
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  • Rosskopf, U., Uteau, D., Peth, S., (2022): Development of mechanical soil stability in an initial homogeneous loam and sand planted with two maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes with contrasting root hair attributes under in‑situ field conditions.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05572-5
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  • Rosskopf, U., Uteau, D., Peth,S., (2022): Effects of mucilage concentration at different water contents on mechanical stability and elasticity in a loamy and a sandy soil. Eur J Soil Sci. 73( 1), e13189
    DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13189
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  • Schnepf, A., Carminati, A., Ahmed, M. A., Ani, M.,· Benard, P.,  Bentz J., Bonkowski,  M.,· Knott, M., Diehl, D., Duddek, P., Kroener, E., Javaux, M., Landl, M., Lehndorff, E., Lippold, E., Lieu, A., Mueller, C. W., Oburger, E., Otten, W., Portell, X., Phalempin, M., Prechtel, A., Schulz, R., Vanderborght, J., Vetterlein, D., (2022): Linking rhizosphere processes across scales: Opinion. Plant Soil 
    DOI: org/10.1007/s11104-022-05306-7
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  • Vetterlein, D., Phalempin, M., Lippold, E., Schlüter, S., Schreiter, S., Ahmed, M., Carminati, A., Duddek, P., Jorda, H., Bienert, G., Bienert, D., Tarkka, M., Ganther, M., Oburger, E., Santangeli, M., Javaux, M., Vanderborght, J., (2022): Root hairs matter at field scale for maize shoot growth and nutrient uptake, but root trait plasticity is primarily triggered by texture and drought.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05434-0 
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  • Vetterlein, D., Carminati, A., Schnepf, A., (2022): Special issue: Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organisation: an integrated approach linking above and belowground.
    Plant Soil 478, 1-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05716-7
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  • Werner, L.M., Hartwig, R.P., Engel, I., Franzisky, B.L., Wienkoop, S., Brenner, M., Preiner, J., Repper, D., Hartung, J., Zörb, C.,Wimmer, M.A., (2022): Local and systemic metabolic adjustments to drought in maize: Hydraulic redistribution in a split-root system.
    J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 2022;185:632–642
    DOI: 10.1002/jpln.202200279
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  • Werner, L., Knott, M., Diehl, D., Ahmed, M., Banfield, C., Dippold, M., Vetterlein, D., Wimmer, M., (2022):Physico‑chemical properties of maize (Zea mays L.) mucilage differ with the collection system and corresponding root type and developmental stage of the plant.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05633-9
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  • Yim, B., Ibrahim, Z., Rüger, L., Ganther, M., Maccario, L., Sørensen, S., Heintz‑Buschart, A., Tarkka, M., Vetterlein, D., Bonkowski, M., Blagodatskaya, E., Smalla, K., (2022): Soil texture is a stronger driver of the maize rhizosphere microbiome and extracellular enzyme activities than soil depth or the presence of root hairs.
    Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05618-8
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  • Zech, S., Ritschel, T., Ray, N., Kai Uwe Totsche, KU., Prechtel, A., (2022): How water connectivity and substrate supply shape the turnover of organic matter – Insights from simulations at the scale of microaggregates  Geoderma 405, 115394
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115394
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2021

  • Bandara, CD., Schmidt, M., Davoudpour, Y., Stryhanyuk, H., Richnow, HH., Musat, N., (2021): Microbial Identification, High-Resolution Microscopy and Spectrometry of the Rhizosphere in Its Native Spatial Context. Front. Plant Sci. 12:668929.
    DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.668929
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  • Benard B., Schepers, J.R., Crosta, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Carminati, A.(2021): Physics of viscous bridges in soil biological hotspots. Water Resour. Res. 57.11
    DOI: 10.1029/2021WR030052
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  • Bienert, D., Werner, L., Wimmer, M., Bienert, P., (2021): Root hairs: the villi of plants. Biochem Soc Trans (2021) BST20200716
    DOI: 10.1042/BST20200716
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  • Bilyera, N., Zhang, X., Duddek, P., Fan, L., Banfield, CC., Schlüter, S., Carminati, A., Kaestner, A., Ahmed, MA., Kuzyakov, Y., Dippold, MA., Spielvogel, S., Razavi, BS., (2021): Maize genotype-specific exudation strategies: an adaptive mechanism to increase microbial activity in the rhizosphere. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 162, 108426
    DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108426
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  • Blagodatskaya, E., Tarkka, M., Knief, C., Koller, R., Peth, S., Schmidt, V., Spielvogel, S., Uteau, D., Weber, M., Razavi, BS. (2021): Bridging Microbial Functional Traits With Localized Process Rates at Soil Interfaces. Front. Microbiol. 12:625697
    DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.625697
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  • Bonkowski, M., Tarkka, M., Razavi, B., Schmidt, H., Blagodatskaya, E., Koller, R., Yu, P., Knief, C., Hochholdinger, F., and Vetterlein, D., (2021): Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Maize (Zea mays L.) Root Growth and Its Potential Consequences for the Assembly of the Rhizosphere Microbiota. Front. Microbiol. 12:619499
    DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.619499
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  • Cai, C., Carminati, A.,  Abdalla M., Ahmed, M., (2021): Soil textures rather than root hairs dominate water uptake and soil-plant hydraulics under drought. Plant Physiol. kiab271
    DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab271
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  • Ganther, M., Vetterlein, D., Heintz-Buschart, A., Tarkka M., (2021): Transcriptome sequencing analysis of maize roots reveals the effects of substrate and root hair formation in a spatial context. Plant Soil
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-021-04921-0
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  • Gebauer, L., Bouffaud, M., Ganther, M., Yim, B., Vetterlein, D.,
    Smalla, K., Buscot, F., Heintz-Buschart, A., Tarkka, M., (2021): Soil texture, sampling depth and root hairs shape the structure of ACC deaminase bacterial community composition in maize rhizosphere. Front. Microbiol. 12:616828
    DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.616828
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  • Guber, A., Blagodatskaya, E., Juyal, A., Razavi, B.S., Kuzyakov, Y., Kravchenko, A., (2021): Time-lapse approach to correct deficiencies of 2D soil zymography. Soil Biol Biochem, 157:108225
    DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108225
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  • Haupenthal, A., Brax, M., Bentz, J., Jungkunst, H.,  Schützenmeister, K., Kroener, E., (2021): Plants control soil gas exchanges possibly via mucilage. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 184(3): 320-328.
    DOI: 10.1002/jpln.202000496
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  • Landl,M., Haupenthal, A., Leitner, D., Kroener, E., Vetterlein, D., Bol, R., Vereecken, H.,  Vanderborght, J., Schnepf, A., (2021): Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems. in silico Plants 3, 2, diab028
    DOI: 10.1093/insilicoplants/diab028
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  • Landl, M., Phalempin, M., Schlüter, S., Vetterlein, D., Vanderborght, J., Kroener, E., Schnepf, A., (2021): Modeling the Impact of Rhizosphere Bulk Density and Mucilage Gradients on Root Water Uptake. Front. Agron. 3:622367
    DOI: 10.3389/fagro.2021.622367
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  • Lippold, E., Kleinau, P., Blaser, S., Schlüter, S., Phalempin, M., Vetterlein, D., (2021): In soil measurement of radiation dose caused by X-ray computed tomography. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 2021, 000, 1–3
    DOI: 10.1002/jpln.202000276
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  • Lippold, E., Phalempin, M., Schlüter, S., Vetterlein, D., (2021): Does the lack of root hairs alter root system architecture of Zea mays? Plant Soil, PLSO-D-20-01901
    DOI: 10.1007/s11104-021-05084-8
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  • Lohse, M., Haag, R., Lippold, E., Vetterlein, D., Reemtsma, T., Lechtenfeld, OJ., (2021): Direct Imaging of Plant Metabolites in the Rhizosphere Using Laser Desorption Ionization Ultra-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry. Front. Plant Sci. 12:753812
    DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.753812
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  • Phalempin, M., Lippold, E., Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S., (2021): Soil texture and structure heterogeneity predominantly governs bulk density gradients around roots. Vadose Zone J
    DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20147
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  • Phalempin, M., Lippold, E., Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S., (2021): An improved method for the segmentation of roots from X‑ray computed tomography 3D images: Rootine v.2. Plant Methods (2021) 17:39
    DOI: 10.1186/s13007-021-00735-4
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  • Rüger, L., Feng, K., Dumack, K., Freudenthal, J., Chen, Y., Sun, R., Wilson, M., Yu, P., Sun, B., Deng, Y., Hochholdinger, F., Vetterlein, D., Bonkowski, M., (2021): Assembly Patterns of the Rhizosphere Microbiome Along the Longitudinal Root Axis of Maize (Zea mays L.). Front. Microbiol. 12:614501.
    DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.614501
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  • Szoboszlay, M., Tebbe, C. C., (2021): Hidden heterogeneity and co-occurrence networks of soil prokaryotic communities revealed at the scale of individual soil aggregates. Microbiology Open 10(1): 16.
    DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1144
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  • Tarkka, MT., Bonkowski, M., Ge, T., Knief. C., Razavi, BS. and Vetterlein, D., (2021): Editorial: Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation. Front. Plant Sci. 12:795136
    DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.795136
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  • Vanderborght, J., Couvreur, V., Meunier, F., Schnepf, A., Vereecken, H., Bouda, M., Javaux, M. (2021): From hydraulic root architecture models to macroscopic representations of root hydraulics in soil water flow and land surface models. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (9)
    DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-4835-2021
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  • Vergara Sosa, M., Lehndorff, E.,  Rodionov, A., Gocke, M.,
    Sandhage-Hofmann A., Amelung, W., (2021): Micro-scale resolution of carbon turnover in soil - Insights from laser ablation isotope ratio mass spectrometry on water-glass embedded aggregates. Soil Biol Biochem 159 (2021) 108279.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108279
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  • Vetterlein, D., Lippold, E., Schreiter, S., Phalempin, M., Fahrenkampf, T., Hochholdinger, F., Marcon, C., Tarkka, M., Oburger, E., Ahmed, M., Javaux, M., Schlüter, S., (2021): Experimental platforms for the investigation of
    spatiotemporal patterns in the rhizosphere – laboratory and field scale. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 2021, 184, 35–50
    DOI: 10.1002/jpln.202000079
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  • Yu, P., He, X., Baer, M., Beirinckx, S., Tian, T., Moya, YAT., Zhang, Y., Deichmann, M., Frey, FP., Bresgen, V., Li, C., Razavi, BS., Schaaf, G., von Wirén, N., Su, Z., Bucher, M., Tsuda, K., Goormachtig, S., Chen, X., Hochholdinger, F., (2021): Plant flavones enrich rhizosphere Oxalobacteraceae to improve maize performance under nitrogen deprivation. Nat Plants 7: 481–499.
    DOI:10.1038/s41477-021-00897-y
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2020

  • Carminati, A., Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Cai, G., Lovric, G., Javaux, M., (2020): Stomatal closure prevents the drop in soil water potential around roots. New Phytol. 26:6, 1541-1543
    DOI: org/10.1111/nph.16451
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  • Davoudpour, Y., Schmidt, M., Calabrese, F., Richnow, H. H., Musat N., (2020): High resolution microscopy to evaluate the efficiency of surface sterilization of Zea Mays seeds. PLoS ONE 15(11): e0242247
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242247
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  • Ganther, M., Yim, B., Ibrahim, Z., Bienert, D., Lippold, E., Maccario, L., Sørensen, S. J., Bienert, P., Vetterlein, D., Heintz-Buschart, A., Blagodatskaya, E., Smalla, K., Tarkka, M., (2020): Compatibility of X-ray computed tomography with plant gene expression, rhizosphere bacterial communities and enzyme activities. J. Exp. Bot. 262
    DOI: org/10.1093/jxb/eraa262
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  • Lohse, M., Blaser, S., Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S., Oburger, E., Reemtsma, T., Lechtenfeld, O. , (2020): On-line nano-solid phase extraction Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry workflow to analyze small scale gradients of soil solution organic matter in the rhizosphere. Anal. Chem. 92, 15, 10442–10449
    DOI: org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00946
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  • Vetterlein, D., Carminati, A., Kögel-Knabner, I., Bienert, P., Smalla, K., Oburger, E., Schnepf, A., Banitz, T., Tarkka, M., Schlüter, S., (2020): Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organization – A Key to Rhizosphere Functions. Front. Agron. 2:8
    DOI: 10.3389/fagro.2020.00008
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2019

  • Benard, P., Zarebanadkouki, M., Brax, M., Kaltenbach, R., Jerjen, I., Marone, F., (2019): Microhydrological Niches in Soils: How Mucilage and EPS Alter the Biophysical Properties of the Rhizosphere and Other Biological Hotspots. Vadose Zone J, 18(1), 1–10.
    DOI: 10.2136/vzj2018.12.0211
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2018

  • Guber A., Kravchenko A., Razavi BS., Blagodatskaya E., Kuzyakov Y., (2018): Calibration of 2‐D soil zymography for correct analysis of enzyme distribution. Eur J Soil Sci. 70:4, 715-726
    DOI: org/10.1111/ejss.12744
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  • Guber A., Kravchenko A., Razavi BS., Uteau D., Peth S., Blagodatskaya E., Kuzyakov Y., (2018): Quantitative soil zymography: Mechanisms, processes of substrate and enzyme diffusion in porous media. Soil Biol Biochem. 127:156-67
    DOI: org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.09.030
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  • Schlüter, S., Blaser, S.R., Weber, M., Schmidt, V., Vetterlein, D., (2018): Quantification of root growth patterns from the soil perspective via root distance models. Front. Plant Sci. 9 , art. 1084
    DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01084
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  • Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S., Vogel, H.-J., (2018): Roots out of sight, not out of mind
    Nature 554 (7693), 423
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  • Yu, P., Hochholdinger, F., (2018): The role of host genetic signatures on root-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere and endosphere. Front Plant Sci 9:1896.
    DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01896
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List of Book Chapters

2021

  • Ahmed, M., Vetterlein,D., Carminati, A., (2021): Advances in understanding plant root water uptake. Peter Gregory (Hrsg.), Understanding and improving crop root function. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science.
    DOI: org/10.19103/AS.2020.0075.17
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