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Organic acid exudation by mycorrhizal Andropogon virginicus L. (broomsedge) roots in response to aluminum

Katrina Klugh-Stewart, Jonathan R. Cumming

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 367-373

Elevated aluminum (Al) availability limits plant growth on acidic soils. Although this element is found naturally in soils, acidic conditions create an environment where Al solubility increases and toxic forms of Al impact plant function. Plant resistance to Al is often attributed to organic acid exudation from plant roots and the chelation of cationic Al in the rhizosphere. The association of arbuscular...

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Interactions between the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices and the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria Paenibacillus polymyxa and P. macerans in the mycorrhizosphere of Cucumis sativus

John Larsen, Pablo Cornejo, José Míguel Barea

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 286-292

Interactions between the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Glomus intraradices and bacteria from the genus Paenibacillus (P. macerans and P. polymyxa) were examined in a greenhouse pot experiment with Cucumis sativus with and without organic matter amendment (wheat bran). P. polymyxa markedly suppressed AM fungus root colonization irrespective of wheat bran amendment, whereas P. macerans only suppressed...

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Comparison of g23 gene sequence diversity between Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas phages and phage communities in the floodwater of a Japanese paddy field

Natsuko Nakayama, Susumu Asakawa, Makoto Kimura

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 179-185

Our previous study indicated that the diversity of the major capsid gene (g23) of T4-type bacteriophages (phages) of Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas strains isolated from the floodwater of a Japanese paddy field is comparable to those of the clones obtained from other Japanese paddy fields. For more strict comparison of the diversity, this study examined g23 sequences between Novosphingobium and...

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Simultaneous measurement of S, macronutrients, and heavy metals in the soil microbial biomass with CHCl3 fumigation and NH4NO3 extraction

Khalid Saifullah Khan, Stefanie Heinze, Rainer Georg Joergensen

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 309-314

The study was carried out to investigate whether 1M NH ₄ NO ₃ extraction is a useful alternative to 10mM CaCl ₂ extraction for estimating soil microbial biomass S and whether the data of CHCl ₃ -labile NH ₄ NO ₃ -extractable macronutrients and heavy metals are useful and in agreement with the available data on element concentrations in soil microorganisms...

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Distinct members of a stable methanogenic archaeal community transcribe mcrA genes under flooded and drained conditions in Japanese paddy field soil

Takeshi Watanabe, Makoto Kimura, Susumu Asakawa

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 276-285

The composition and succession of methanogenic archaea in a Japanese paddy field were investigated during an annual cycle by analyses of methyl-coenzyme M reductase α subunit (mcrA) genes and their mRNA transcripts, which encode a key enzyme for methanogenesis. The paddy field was managed with a double-cropping cultivation, i.e. rice grown in summer under a flooded condition and wheat cultivated in...

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Comments on the paper by Kemmitt et al. (2008) ‘Mineralization of native soil organic matter is not regulated by the size, activity or composition of the soil microbial biomass – A new perspective’ [Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40, 61–73]: The biology of the Regulatory Gate

Yakov Kuzyakov, Evgenia Blagodatskaya, Sergey Blagodatsky

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 435-439

Kemmitt et al. (Kemmitt, S.J., Lanyon, C.V., Waite, I.S., Wen, Q., Addiscott, T.M., Bird, N.R.A., O'Donnell, A.G., Brookes, P.C., 2008. Mineralization of native soil organic matter is not regulated by the size, activity or composition of the soil microbial biomass – a new perspective. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40, 61–73) recently proposed the “Regulatory Gate” hypothesis, which states that decomposition...

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Impact of wheat straw decomposition on successional patterns of soil microbial community structure

Fabiola Bastian, Lamia Bouziri, Bernard Nicolardot, Lionel Ranjard

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 262-275

The dynamics of indigenous bacterial and fungal soil communities were followed throughout the decomposition of wheat straw residue. More precisely, such dynamics were investigated in the different soil zones under the influence of decomposing wheat straw residue (i.e. residues, soil adjacent to residue=detritusphere, and bulk soil). The genetic structures of bacterial and fungal communities were compared...

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Are laboratory derived toxicity results informative for field situations? Case study on earthworm populations contaminated with heavy metals

Chris Klok, Jac Thissen

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 251-255

The relevance of laboratory tests on toxicants for field situations is often disputed given that laboratory tests are conducted under, next to the toxicant stress, optimal conditions which are not expected in field situations. In this paper we confront the results of laboratory tests on growth, reproduction and survival of earthworms, in a polluted and a reference field soil with a field inventory...

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Functional shifts of grassland soil communities in response to soil warming

María Jesús Iglesias Briones, Nicholas J. Ostle, Niall P. McNamara, Jan Poskitt

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 315-322

In terrestrial ecosystems most carbon (C) occurs below-ground, making the activity of soil decomposer organisms critical to the global carbon cycle. Temperate grassland ecosystems, contain large, diverse and active soil meso- and macrofauna decomposer communities. Understanding the effects of climate change on their ecology offers a first step towards meaningful predictions of changes in soil organic...

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Frequency of phage-infected bacterial cells in the floodwater of a Japanese paddy field

Natsuko Nakayama, Susumu Asakawa, Makoto Kimura

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 186-191

In aquatic environments, viruses play an important role in the microbial food web through microbial mortality from viral lysis. Bacteriophages (phages) compose the majority of viral communities in the floodwater of paddy fields. The present study evaluated bacterial mortality from phage lysis in the floodwater of a Japanese paddy field based on the frequency of phage-infected bacterial cells by transmission...

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Spatial distribution of the nematode biocontrol agent Pasteuria penetrans as influenced by its soil habitat

T. Mateille, S. Fould, K.R. Dabiré, M.T. Diop, more

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 303-308

Root-knot nematodes belonging to the Meloidogyne genus are ubiquitous plant-parasitic pests, especially on vegetables. The Pasteuria penetrans bacterium is an obligate parasite of nematodes, parasitizing most of the Meloidogyne species. Spatial distributions of Meloidogyne javanica populations infested or not by P. penetrans and of bacterial populations were studied in a vegetable plot naturally infested...

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Soil CO2 flux in six monospecific forest plantations in Southern Rwanda

D. Nsabimana, L. Klemedtson, B.A. Kaplin, G. Wallin

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 396-402

Forest soils contain the largest carbon stock of all terrestrial biomes and are probably the most important source of carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) to atmosphere. Soil CO ₂ fluxes from 54 to 72-year-old monospecific stands in Rwanda were quantified from March 2006 to December 2007. The influences of soil temperature, soil water content, soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, soil pH, and...

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Effects of different chloroform stabilizers on the extraction efficiencies of phospholipid fatty acids from soils

Andrea Fuhrmann, Martin H. Gerzabek, Andrea Watzinger

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 428-430

Chloroform is commonly used as an organic solvent to extract phospholipid fatty acids from soil samples. However, the extraction efficiency of the fatty acids depends on the particular chloroform stabilizers used. The effect of chloroform stabilizers 2-methyl-2-butene and ethanol was investigated at different steps of the extraction procedure. Only the ethanol stabilized chloroform prevented the loss...

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Reply to Kuzyakov et al.’s comments on our paper: ‘Kemmitt, S. Lanyon, C. V., Waite, I.S., Wen, Q., O'Donnell, A.G., Brookes, P.C., 2008. Mineralization of native soil organic matter is not regulated by the size, activity or composition of the soil microbial biomass – a new perspective. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 61–73’

P.C. Brookes, S.J. Kemmitt, T.M. Addiscott, N. Bird

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 440-443

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Black carbon decomposition and incorporation into soil microbial biomass estimated by 14C labeling

Yakov Kuzyakov, Irina Subbotina, Haiqing Chen, Irina Bogomolova, more

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 210-219

Incomplete combustion of organics such as vegetation or fossil fuel led to accumulation of charred products in the upper soil horizon. Such charred products, frequently called pyrogenic carbon or black carbon (BC), may act as an important long-term carbon (C) sink because its microbial decomposition and chemical transformation is probably very slow. Direct estimations of BC decomposition rates are...

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Spatial distribution of fungal communities in a coastal grassland soil

Clare H. Robinson, Timothy M. Szaro, Antonio D. Izzo, Ian C. Anderson, more

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 414-416

In grasslands, saprotrophic fungi, including basidiomycetes, are major decomposers of dead organic matter, although spatial distributions of their mycelial assemblages are little described. The aim of this study was to characterise the scale and distribution of saprotrophic fungal communities in a coastal grassland soil using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP).Soil fungi were...

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Rapid quantification of Bacillus subtilis antibiotics in the rhizosphere

Karen Kinsella, Cristian P. Schulthess, Thomas F. Morris, James D. Stuart

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 374-379

Biological control agents like Bacillus subtilis offer an alternative and supplement to synthetic pesticides. Antibiotic production by biocontrol strains of B. subtilis can play a major role in plant disease suppression. Our current understanding of B. subtilis antibiosis comes from culture media measurements of antibiotic production and in vitro suppression of pathogens. Quantifying the antibiotic...

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Survey of major capsid genes (g23) of T4-type bacteriophages in rice fields in Northeast China

Guanghua Wang, Jian Jin, Susumu Asakawa, Makoto Kimura

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 423-427

We surveyed the capsid genes (g23) of T4-type bacteriophages in DNA extracted from fifteen rice field soils in Northeast China using primers MZIA1bis and MZIA6. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) was performed to separate PCR-amplified g23 products. In total, 53 DGGE bands were identified as g23 clones, nine of which belonged to a novel, Northeast China-specific group. In addition, four...

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FT-IR study of the changes in carbohydrate chemistry of three New Jersey pine barrens leaf litters during simulated control burning

Kristin Lammers, Georgia Arbuckle-Keil, John Dighton

Soil Biology and Biochemistry > 2009 > 41 > 2 > 340-347

Low intensity control burns are a standard fuel reduction management tool used in pine barrens ecosystems. Periodic disturbances through fire can be an important influence on the cycling of nutrients within the ecosystem. Previous studies have shown that the inorganic chemistry of leaf litter residues differs with increasing temperature. Our study compared chemical changes in white oak (Quercus alba),...

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DGGE (2)
FLOODWATER (2)
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ANIMAL WASTE (1)
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CELLULOSE (1)
CH4 OXIDATION (1)
CH4 PRODUCTION (1)
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CHCL3-LABILE METALS (1)
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CHLOROFORM STABILIZERS (1)
CHROMOPHORIC TETHERED PHYTATE (1)
CLONE LIBRARY (1)
COAL MINING (1)
COASTAL GRASSLAND (1)
COLD TEMPERATURE (1)
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CONTROL BURNS (1)
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DECOMPOSITION RATES (1)
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DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE) (1)
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DISSIPATION (1)
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Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Organic acid exudation by mycorrhizal Andropogon virginicus L. (broomsedge) roots in response to aluminum

Interactions between the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices and the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria Paenibacillus polymyxa and P. macerans in the mycorrhizosphere of Cucumis sativus

Aims & Scope & Editorial Board

Comparison of g23 gene sequence diversity between Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas phages and phage communities in the floodwater of a Japanese paddy field

Simultaneous measurement of S, macronutrients, and heavy metals in the soil microbial biomass with CHCl3 fumigation and NH4NO3 extraction

Distinct members of a stable methanogenic archaeal community transcribe mcrA genes under flooded and drained conditions in Japanese paddy field soil

Comments on the paper by Kemmitt et al. (2008) ‘Mineralization of native soil organic matter is not regulated by the size, activity or composition of the soil microbial biomass – A new perspective’ [Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40, 61–73]: The biology of the Regulatory Gate

Impact of wheat straw decomposition on successional patterns of soil microbial community structure

Are laboratory derived toxicity results informative for field situations? Case study on earthworm populations contaminated with heavy metals

Functional shifts of grassland soil communities in response to soil warming

Frequency of phage-infected bacterial cells in the floodwater of a Japanese paddy field

Spatial distribution of the nematode biocontrol agent Pasteuria penetrans as influenced by its soil habitat

Soil CO2 flux in six monospecific forest plantations in Southern Rwanda

Effects of different chloroform stabilizers on the extraction efficiencies of phospholipid fatty acids from soils

Black carbon decomposition and incorporation into soil microbial biomass estimated by 14C labeling

Spatial distribution of fungal communities in a coastal grassland soil

Rapid quantification of Bacillus subtilis antibiotics in the rhizosphere

Survey of major capsid genes (g23) of T4-type bacteriophages in rice fields in Northeast China

FT-IR study of the changes in carbohydrate chemistry of three New Jersey pine barrens leaf litters during simulated control burning

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