List of Peer Reviewed Publications
2025
- Roldán, M. M., Würsig, H., Tarkka, M. T., Hartwig, R. P., Wimmer, M. A., Blagodatskaya, E. (2025): Maize roots modulate microbial functional traits in the rhizosphere to mitigate drought stress. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Link Download - Prifling, B. , M. Weber, M. Rötzer, N. Ray, A. Prechtel, M. Phalempin, S. Schlüter, D. Vetterlein and V. Schmidt (2025): Correlating pore space morphology with numerically computed soil gas diffusion for structured loam and sand, including stochastic 3D microstructure modeling. Scientific Reports 15 (2025), 20174
DOI lautet: 10.1038/s41598-025-05825-0
Link - Hartwig, R. P., Santangeli, M., Würsig, H., Martín Roldán, M., Yim, B., Lippold, E., Tasca, A., Oburger, E., Tarkka, M., Vetterlein, D., Bienert, P., Blagodatskaya, E., Smalla, K., Hause, B., Wimmer, M. A. (2025): Drought response of the maize plant-soil-microbiome system is influenced by plant size and presence of root hairs. Annals of Botany
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaf033
Link - He, X., Hochholdinger, F., Chen, X., Yu, P. (2025): Crop domestication and improvement reshape root traits and the structure and function of their associated microbiome. Front. Agr. Sci. Eng., 12, 27-36
DOI:10.15302/j-fase-2024593
Link Download - Koch, A., Cai, G., Ahmed, M. A., Meunier, F., Carminati, A., Vanderborght, J., Javaux, M. (2025): On the importance of rhizosphere conductance and soil–root contact in drying soils. Annals of Botany
DOI:10.1093/aob/mcaf082
Link - Koehler, T., Kim, Y., Tung, S.-Y., Heymans, A., Tyborski, N., Steiner, F., Wild, A. J., Pausch, J., Ahmed, M. A., Schneider, H. M. (2025): Node of origin matters: comparative analysis of soil water limitation effects on nodal root anatomy in maize (Zea mays L.). Annals of Botany
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaf075
Link - Lippold, E., Landl, M., Braatz, E., Schlüter, S., Kilian, R., Mikutta, R., Schnepf, A., Vetterlein, D. Linking micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and X-ray computed tomography with model simulation explains differences in nutrient gradients around roots of different types and ages. New Phytol., n/a
DOI: 10.1111/nph.70102
Link Download - Phalempin, M., Schneider, H., Han, E., Cheng, L., Vetterlein, D. (2025): Designing future roots with the power of databases. Trends in Plant Science
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.01.012
Link - Phalempin, M., Jentzsch, N., Köhne, J. M., Schreiter, S., Gründling, R., Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S. (2025): Soil structure development in a five-year chronosequence of maize cropping on two contrasting soil textures. Soil Tillage Res, 251, 106561
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2025.106561
Link Download - Shen, G., Guber, A., Khosrozadeh, S., Ghaderi, N., Kravchenko, A., Blagodatskaya, E. (2025): Plant-microbial interplay for organic nitrogen mediated by functional specificity of root compartments. Rhizosphere, 33, 101024
DOI: 10.1016/j.rhisph.2025.101024
Link Download - Yim, B., Heider, M. A., Bloem, E., Vetterlein, D., Behr, J. H., Babin, D., Smalla, K. (2025): Exploring the potential of seed inoculation with microbial consortia to mitigate drought stress in maize plants under greenhouse conditions. Plant Soil
DOI:10.1007/s11104-024-07110-x
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2024
- Abdalla, M., Carminati, A., Cai, G., Ahmed, M. A. (2024): Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale. Annals of Botany, mcae193
DOI:10.1093/aob/mcae193
Link - Adamczewski, R., Kaestner, A., Zarebanadkouki, M. (2024): Rhizosphere hydraulic regulation in maize: tailoring rhizosphere properties to varying soil textures and moistures. Plant Soil
DOI:10.1007/s11104-024-06840-2
Link Download - Duddek, P., Papritz, A., Ahmed, M. A., Lovric, G., Carminati, A. (2024): Observations of root hair patterning in soils: Insights from synchrotron-based X-ray computed microtomography. Plant Soil, 503, 331-348
DOI:10.1007/s11104-024-06582-1
Link Download - He, X., Wang, D., Jiang, Y., Li, M., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., McLaughlin, C., Marcon, C., Guo, L., Baer, M., Moya, Y. A. T., von Wirén, N., Deichmann, M., Schaaf, G., Piepho, H.-P., Yang, Z., Yang, J., Yim, B., Smalla, K., Goormachtig, S., de Vries, F. T., Hüging, H., Baer, M., Sawers, R. J. H., Reif, J. C., Hochholdinger, F., Chen, X., Yu, P. (2024): Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties. Nat. Plants, 10, 598-617
DOI:10.1038/s41477-024-01654-7
Link - Müller, C. W., Baumert, V., Carminati, A., Germon, A., Holz, M., Kögel-Knabner, I., Peth, S., Schlüter, S., Uteau, D., Vetterlein, D., Teixeira, P., Vidal, A. (2024): From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota. Soil Biol. Biochem., 193, 109396
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109396
Link Download - Niedeggen, D., Rüger, L., Oburger, E., Santangeli, M., Mutez, A., Vetterlein, D., Blagodatsky, S., Bonkowski, M. (2024): Microbial utilisation of maize rhizodeposits applied to agricultural soil at a range of concentrations. Eur. J. Soil Sci., 75, e13530
DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13530
Link Download - Vanderborght, J., Couvreur, V., Javaux, M., Leitner, D., Schnepf, A., Vereecken, H. (2024): Mechanistically derived macroscopic root water uptake functions: The α and ω of root water uptake functions. VZJ, 23, e20333
DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20333
Link Download - Wang, D., He, X., Baer, M., Lami, K., Yu, B., Tassinari, A., Salvi, S., Schaaf, G., Hochholdinger, F., Yu, P. (2024): Lateral root enriched Massilia associated with plant flowering in maize. Microbiome, 12, 124
DOI:10.1186/s40168-024-01839-4
Link Download - Yu, B., Zhou, C., Wang, Z., Bucher, M., Schaaf, G., Sawers, R. J. H., Chen, X., Hochholdinger, F., Zou, C., Yu, P. (2024): Maize zinc uptake is influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis under various soil phosphorus availabilities. New Phytol., 243, 1936-1950
DOI: 10.1111/nph.19952
Link - Yu, P., Li, C., Li, M., He, X., Wang, D., Li, H., Marcon, C., Li, Y., Perez-Limón, S., Chen, X., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Koller, R., Metzner, R., van Dusschoten, D., Pflugfelder, D., Borisjuk, L., Plutenko, I., Mahon, A., Resende, M. F. R., Salvi, S., Akale, A., Abdalla, M., Ahmed, M. A., Bauer, F. M., Schnepf, A., Lobet, G., Heymans, A., Suresh, K., Schreiber, L., McLaughlin, C. M., Li, C., Mayer, M., Schön, C.-C., Bernau, V., von Wirén, N., Sawers, R. J. H., Wang, T., Hochholdinger, F. (2024): Seedling root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion. Nat. Genet., 56, 1245-1256
DOI:10.1038/s41588-024-01761-3
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2023
- Affortit, P., Ahmed, M., Grondin, A., Delzon, S., Carminati, A., Laplaze, L. (2023): Keep in touch: the soil-root hydraulic continuum and its role in drought resistance in crops. J. Exp. Bot.
DOI:10.1093/jxb/erad312
Link - Ani, M., Schaumann, G. E., Diehl, D. (2023): Influence of nanoscale spatial architecture of seed and root mucilage on its wettability. Rhizosphere, 28, 100803
DOI: 10.1016/j.rhisph.2023.100803
Link - Berauer, B. J., Akale, A., Schweiger, A. H., Knott, M., Diehl, D., Wolf, M.-P., Sawers, R. J. H., Ahmed, M. A. (2023): Differences in mucilage properties and stomatal sensitivity of locally adapted Zea mays in relation with precipitation seasonality and vapour pressure deficit regime of their native environment. Plant Direct, 7, e519
DOI:10.1002/pld3.519
Link - Bienert, M. D., Junker, A., Melzer, M., Altmann, T., von Wirén, N., Bienert, G. P. Boron deficiency responses in maize (Zea mays L.) roots. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci., n/a
DOI:10.1002/jpln.202300173
Link Download - Cai, G., Carminati, A., Gleason, S. M., Javaux, M., Ahmed, M. A. (2023): Soil-plant hydraulics explain stomatal efficiency-safety tradeoff. Plant Cell Environ.
DOI: 10.1111/pce.14536
Link - Diehl, D., Knott, M., Schaumann, G. E., (2023): Purification effects show seed and root mucilage's ability to respond to changing rhizosphere conditions. Biopolymers.
DOI: 10.1002/bip.23561
Link Download - Duddek, P., Ahmed, M. A., Javaux, M., Vanderborght, J., Lovric, G., King, A., Carminati, A. The effect of root hairs on root water uptake is determined by root–soil contact and root hair shrinkage. New Phytol.
DOI:10.1111/nph.19144
Link Download - Khosrozadeh, S., Guber, A., Nourbakhsh, F., Khalili, B., Blagodatskaya, E. (2023): Amino mapping: possibility to visualize amino-N compounds in the rhizosphere of Zea Mays L. Biol. Fertility Soils, 59, 1007-1011
DOI:10.1007/s00374-023-01754-0
Link Download - Lippold, E., Schlüter, S., Mueller, C. W., Höschen, C., Harrington, G., Kilian, R., Gocke, M. I., Lehndorff, E., Mikutta, R., Vetterlein, D. (2023): Correlative Imaging of the Rhizosphere - A Multimethod Workflow for Targeted Mapping of Chemical Gradients. Environ. Sci. Technol.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c07340
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Download - Phalempin, M., Rosskopf, U., Schlüter, S., Vetterlein, D., Peth, S. (2023): Can we use X-ray CT to generate 3D penetration resistance data? Geoderma, 439, 116700
DOI:10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116700
Link Download - Prifling, B., Weber, M., Ray, N., Prechtel, A., Phalempin, M., Schlüter, S., Vetterlein, D., Schmidt, V. (2023): Quantifying the Impact of 3D Pore Space Morphology on Soil Gas Diffusion in Loam and Sand. Transport in Porous Media
DOI:10.1007/s11242-023-01971-z
Link Download - Rötzer, M., Prechtel, A., Ray, N. (2023): Pore scale modeling of the mutual influence of roots and soil aggregation in the rhizosphere. Front. Soil Sci. 3
DOI:10.3389/fsoil.2023.1155889
Link - Rüger, L., Feng, K., Chen, Y., Sun, R., Sun, B., Deng, Y., Vetterlein, D., Bonkowski, M. (2023): Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient. Soil Biol. Biochem., 181, 109026.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109026
Link - Rüger, L., Ganther, M., Freudenthal, J., Jansa, J., Heintz-Buschart, A., Tarkka, M. T., Bonkowski, M. (2023): Root cap is an important determinant of rhizosphere microbiome assembly. New Phytol., 239, 1434-1448
DOI:10.1111/nph.19002
Link - Santangeli, M., Steininger-Mairinger, T., Vetterlein, D., Hann, S., Oburger, E. (2023): Maize (Zea mays L.) root exudation profiles change in quality and quantity during plant development – A field study. Plant Science, 338, 111896
DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2023.111896
Link Download - Teixeira, P. P. C., Trautmann, S., Buegger, F., Felde, V. J. M. N. L., Pausch, J., Müller, C. W., Kögel-Knabner, I. (2023): Role of root hair elongation in rhizosheath aggregation and in the carbon flow into the soil. Biol. Fertil. Soils
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-023-01708-6
Link Download - Vanderborght, J., Leitner, D., Schnepf, A., Couvreur, V., Vereecken, H., Javaux, M. (2024): Combining root and soil hydraulics in macroscopic representations of root water uptake. VZJ, 23, e20273
DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20273
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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
Link Download - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Link - Cai, G., König, M., Carminati, A., Abdalla, M., Javaux, M.,·Wankmüller, F., Ahmed, M., (2022): Transpiration response to soil drying and vapor pressure deficit is soil texture specific. Plant Soil
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05818-2
Link - Cai, G., Tötzke, C., Kaestner, A., Ahmed, M. A. (2022): Quantification of root water uptake and redistribution using neutron imaging: a review and future directions. The Plant Journal, 111, 348-359
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15839
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - Guber, A., Blagodatskaya, E., Kravchenko, A. (2022): Are enzymes transported in soils by water fluxes? Soil Biol. Biochem., 168, 108633
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108633
Link - Jorda, H., Ahmed, M. A., Javaux, M., Carminati, A., Duddek, P., Vetterlein, D., Vanderborght, J. (2022): Field scale plant water relation of maize (Zea mays) under drought - impact of root hairs and soil texture. Plant Soil, 478, 59-84.
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-022-05685-x
Link Download - Khosrozadeh, S., Guber, A., Kravchenko, A., Ghaderi, N., Blagodatskaya, E. (2022): Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface. Soil Biol. Biochem., 167, 108610
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108610
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - Lohse, M., Santangeli, M., Steininger-Mairinger, T., Oburger, E., Reemtsma, T., Lechtenfeld, O. J., Hann, S. (2023): The effect of root hairs on exudate composition: a comparative non-targeted metabolomics approach. Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 415, 823-840
DOI:10.1007/s00216-022-04475-9
Link Download - Manzoor, A., Dippold, M. A., Loeppmann, S., Blagodatskaya, E. (2022): Two-Phase Conceptual Framework of Phosphatase Activity and Phosphorus Bioavailability. Front. Plant Sci., 13
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.935829
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - Bienert, D., Werner, L., Wimmer, M., Bienert, P., (2021): Root hairs: the villi of plants. Biochem Soc Trans (2021) BST20200716
DOI: 10.1042/BST20200716
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Download - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Link Download - 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
Link - 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
Link Download Download Supplement - 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
Link Download Download Supplement - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link Download - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Link - 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
Download - Vetterlein, D., Schlüter, S., Vogel, H.-J., (2018): Roots out of sight, not out of mind
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Download - 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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