Biology and Fertility of Soils

Article	Citations
Low nocturnal temperature changed protected tomato soil bacterial community composition and metabolite characteristics	96
Synergistic biogas slurry–wood vinegar application accelerates cotton stalk degradation in saline soil by modulating bacterial network complexity and organic acid metabolism	58
Responses of bacterial community composition and diversity to multi-level nitrogen addition at different periods of growing season driven by conditional rare taxa in an alpine meadow	53
Manure distribution interacts with soil moisture and nitrate availability in controlling soil N2O emissions	53
How arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi maintain plant nitrogen acquisition under drought	51
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	51
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	50
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	50
Dual-functional Bacillus amyloliquefaciens mediates autotoxin degradation and pathogen suppression in monocropped foxtail millet	49
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	46
Root organic acid exudation mediates rhizosphere bacteria dynamics during drought–rehydration in Broussonetia papyrifera	45
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	44
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?	43
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment	40
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	39
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	38
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	38
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	38
Exploring polyphosphates in soil: presence, extractability, and contribution to microbial biomass phosphorus	35
Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss	34
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with contrasting life-history strategies differently affect health-promoting compounds in field-grown tomato by changing arbuscule occurrence and mycorrhizal assemblages i	34
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola	33
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	32
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery	31
Rhizosphere-competent actinobacteria with ACC deaminase activity mitigate heavy metal stress in corn (Zea mays)	30

The rhizosphere exhibits higher microbial carbon use efficiency compared to bulk soil	30
Dynamic modulation of rhizosphere microbial diversity and function across tobacco growth stages by biochar	30
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees	29
Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy	28
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system	28
Genotypic richness affects inorganic N uptake and N form preference of a clonal plant via altering soil N pools	28
Earthworms promote soil organic carbon formation across management histories without stimulating the mineralization of native carbon	26
Microorganisms regulate soil phosphorus fractions in response to low nocturnal temperature by altering the abundance and composition of the pqqC gene rather than that of the phoD gene	25
Liming enhances the abundance and stability of nitrogen-cycling microbes: the buffering effect of long-term lime application	25
Nitrogen uptake and reallocation from roots drive the regrowth of a dominant plant in temperate grassland after low defoliation	25
Phosphorus (P) mobilisation from inorganic and organic P sources depends on P-acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica	25
Shifts in understory plant composition induced by nitrogen addition predict soil fungal beta diversity in a boreal forest	25
Effects of nitrogen inputs on soil organic carbon in a subtropical plantation forest: variation with nitrogen addition methodology	24
Bacterial necromass determines the response of mineral-associated organic matter to elevated CO2	24
Organic fertilization strengthens multiple internal pathways for soil mineral nitrogen production: evidence from the meta-analysis of long-term field trials	23
Mineral N suppressed priming effect while increasing microbial C use efficiency and N2O production in sandy soils under long-term conservation management	23
Interactive effects of plant litter chemistry and organic/inorganic forms of nitrogen addition on Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) soil respiration	22
Nitrate supply increases the resistance of cucumber to Fusarium wilt disease by regulating root exudation	22
Restoration of degraded alpine grasslands alters plant–microbial competition for nitrogen	22
Soil contribution to the cobalamin (vitamin B12) supply of terrestrial organisms	22
Hybrid pathways of denitrification drive N2O but not N2 emissions from an acid-sulphate sugarcane soil	21
Unveiling the crucial role of rice root iron plaque in enhancing biological nitrogen fixation via 15N-labeling DNA-SIP and metagenomics in a model study	21
Impacts of grazing management on biocrust microbiomes and their potential to input and cycle nutrients	20
Litter complexity rather than land-use intensity emerges as a key driver of taxonomic and isotopic diversity of Collembola in urban systems	20
Continuous intake of facade eluates affects active and total soil Microbiome	20
Functional redundant soil fauna and microbial groups and processes were fairly resistant to drought in an agroecosystem	19
Linking nitrous oxide emissions and soil urease kinetics with uratolytic microbial communities: effects of nano zero-valent iron and dicyandiamide	19
Elevational patterns of microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical mountain forest	19
Activity of anaerobic methane oxidation driven by different electron acceptors and the relative microbiome in paddy fields across various rice growth periods and soil layers	19
Twenty years of overfertilization with organic materials increased total phosphorus cycling without changing the relative contributions of biotic and abiotic fluxes	18
Converting acidic forests to managed plantations reduces soil nitrogen loss by inhibiting autotrophic nitrification while inducing nitrate immobilization in the tropics	18
Biological nitrification inhibitors show low persistence in agricultural soils: the role of pH and soil microbiota	18
Organic nitrogen fertilization benefits selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems	18
Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation	17
Land use types affect soil microbial NO3− immobilization through changed fungal and bacterial contribution in alkaline soils of a subtropical montane agricultural landscape	17
Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation	17
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability	16
The soil treatment trade-off of didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride: stimulated nitrogen cycling against a backdrop of impaired carbon metabolism and expanding antibiotic resistance	16
Bacteria from the rhizosphere of a selenium hyperaccumulator plant can improve the selenium uptake of a non-hyperaccumulator plant	16
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	16
Reducing antibiotic resistance genes through biochar-enhanced reductive soil disinfestation	16
Herbivore Dung inputs mainly drive copiotrophic bacterial contributions to soil nutrient pool turnover in alpine grasslands	15
Spotting ethylene in forest soils—What influences the occurrence of the phytohormone?	15
Microbial and isotopomer analysis of N2O production pathways in a calcareous film-mulched farmland	15
Root-associated microbiome dynamics reveal ecological responses to soil-borne pathogens in susceptible and tolerant tobacco varieties	15
Increasing phosphorus availability reduces priming effect by facilitating microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest soil	15
Investigating protistan predators and bacteria within soil microbiomes in agricultural ecosystems under organic and chemical fertilizer applications	15
A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	15
Competition between shrubs and grasses in a shrub‒encroached temperate grassland: Implications from nitrogen acquisition	15
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils	15

Harnessing key bacteria from suppressive soil to mitigate banana Panama disease	14
Responses of soil carbon and nutrient cycling to global change and human disturbances in forest ecosystems	14
Hysteretic response of N2O reductase activity to soil pH variations after application of lime to an acidic agricultural soil	14
Grassland above- and below-ground inputs have similar effects on soil organic matter: A five-year field trial	14
Phosphate-solubilizing inoculants induce stage-specific rhizosphere microbiome shifts and enhance chickpea symbiosis under low P availability	14
Response of acetochlor degradation and bacterial community in black soil to the application of vermicompost	14
Divergent effects of straw and biochar on soil carbon priming are depth-dependent in subtropical Moso bamboo forests	14
Nitrogen additions increase soil microbial nitrate- rather than ammonium- immobilization	14
Effect of no-till followed by crop diversification on the soil microbiome in a boreal short cereal rotation	13
Nitrous oxide fluxes, their sources, and soil microbial communities depend more on carbon availability than long- and short-term phosphorus addition	13
Effects of organic mulching on soil aggregates, main microbial groups, and enzyme activity in Chinese hickory plantation	13
Grazing exclusion increases soil organic C through microbial necromass of root-derived C as traced by 13C labelling photosynthate	13
Biochar reshapes soil bacterial community composition and survival strategies: a meta-analysis revealing trade-offs between microbial stability and functional complexity	13
pH thresholds govern the effects of catechol on some C-related enzyme activities under contrasting hydrological regimes	13
Pyrolysis temperature affects biochar suitability as an alternative rhizobial carrier	13
N2O production is influenced by the abundance of nitrite-reducers and N2O-reducers in casts produced by a large variety of tropical earthworm species	12
Effect of agricultural management system (“cash crop”, “livestock” and “climate optimized”) on nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions	12
Root hair-deficient mutant of maize promoted an increase in C and N in loamy soil after 5 years of monoculture	12
Fixation of CO2 by soil fungi: contribution to organic carbon pool and destination of fixed carbon products	12
A 13C-PLFA approach to assess the crop carbon allocation efficiency and arbuscular mycorrhizal assimilation capacity under conservation tillage	12
Soil bacterial and fungal communities beneath different forest types differentially and promptly respond to non-catastrophic typhoon disturbance	12
Mulching increases soil organic carbon via plant inputs and its microbial transformation	12
Alkalization solution affects selectivity of absorbance for colorimetric quantification of para-nitrophenol in soil enzyme activity assays	12
Contrasting fine root-induced rhizosphere priming effects between coniferous and broadleaved trees	12
Top-down gene upregulation and not microbial community diversity in explaining local-scale litter decomposition	11
Bacteria associated with spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a review	11
Effect of biodegradable plastics on greenhouse gas emission and paddy rice growth under flooding conditions	11
Fatty acid 16:1ω5 as a proxy for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomass: current challenges and ways forward	11
Spent mushroom substrate as a substitute for chemical fertilizer changes N-cycling genes and reduces N2O emission in different textured soils	11
Cover crops in citrus orchards impact soil nutrient cycling and the soil microbiome after three years but effects are site-specific	11
Unlocking Zn biofortification: leveraging high-Zn wheat and rhizospheric microbiome interactions in high-pH soils	11
Soil pH differently affects N2O emissions from soils amended with chemical fertilizer and manure by modifying nitrification and denitrification in wheat-maize rotation system	11
A hitchhiker’s guide: estimates of microbial biomass and microbial gene abundance in soil	11
Extraction optimisation to measure viral abundance in red soils	11
Rhizosphere bacteriome assemblage following initial fluctuations is delayed with nitrogen additions in tomato seedlings	11
Interconnections among co-existing soil bacteria taxa drive the home-field advantage of litter decomposition	11
Correction to: Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application	10
Effects of cover crops and microbial inoculants in different farming systems on soil microbial communities and yield of maize	10
Lysimeter-based full fertilizer 15N balances corroborate direct dinitrogen emission measurements using the 15N gas flow method	10
Correction to: Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation	10
Microbial biomass estimation by fumigation extraction and ATP – A review in memoriam of Phil Brookes	10
Effect of biochar and DMPP application alone or in combination on nitrous oxide emissions differed by soil types	10
Aridity-driven divergence in soil microbial necromass carbon in alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau	10
Cover crops offset recalcitrant soil organic carbon losses under plastic-film mulching by altering microbial functional genes	10
Nitrogen isotope enrichment predicts growth response of Pinus radiata in New Zealand to nitrogen fertiliser addition	9
Incorporation of crushed asphalt as a circular economy strategy for de-sealed soil reclamation: case study in Prato, Italy	9
Effects of several long-term soil health treatments on populations of Pratylenchus penetrans and the soil microbial community	9
Difference in soil microbial necromass carbon accumulation induced by three crops straw mulching for 4 years in a citrus orchard	9
Sulphur wheel: A neglected driver for the coupling of multi-element cycles in soil	9
Special Issue: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	9
Strategy of endophytic bacterial communities in alfalfa roots for enhancing plant resilience to saline–alkali stress and its application	9
Exudate pulses throughout the entire growth period trigger the increase in maize phosphorus use efficiency by modifying soil keystone microbial taxa	9
Can potato cropping be made regenerative? Cover crops and dead organic mulch support soil microbial activity	9
Integration of six field studies to assess soil suppressiveness against Globisporangium ultimum under different management practices	9
Microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics: Effects of land use and climate change	9
Combined application of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and sodium selenite promotes tea seedling growth and selenium uptake by regulating the rhizosphere bacterial community	9
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Correction to: Quantifying the contribution of MAOM to mineral nitrogen pools under various soil organic matter conditions	9
Varying soil moisture and pH with alpine meadow degradation affect nitrogen preference of dominant species	9
Enhancing soil carbon in arid regions: key role of dissolved organic matter in straw-amended systems	9
Loading of redox-active metal Fe largely enhances the capacity of biochar to mitigate soil N2O emissions by promoting complete denitrification	8
Removal of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes from vegetable soil and regulation of soil microbial community by a non-toxic cyanobacterium	8
Sustainable intensification with winter crops stimulates soil nitrogen availability and microbially-mediated N cycling but does not result in substantial benefits to subsequent corn	8
Seed coat treatment by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria Lysobacter antibioticus 13–6 enhances maize yield and changes rhizosphere bacterial communities	8
Labile carbon inputs support the recovery of bacterial communities, but not fungal communities, from a simulated bovine urine event	8
Effects of transitioning from conventional to organic farming on soil organic carbon and microbial community: a comparison of long-term non-inversion minimum tillage and conventional tillage	8
Comparison of methods for assessing fungi-to-bacteria ratio of soil	8
Root residue mass loss of Leymus chinensis stimulates macro and mesofauna activity and enhances carbon accumulation in Songnen grasslands	8
Soil and ruminant gut microbiomes in diverse pasture systems and regenerative agriculture: a review	8
Interactive effects of straw and biochar amendments on soil organic carbon stabilization and bacterial community dynamics	8
Topography-driven soil properties modulate effects of nitrogen deposition on soil nitrous oxide sources in a subtropical forest	8
Occurrence and diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising off-season and in-season weeds and their relationship with maize yield under conservation agriculture	8
Functional players involved in the distinct nitrogen metabolism in two geographically different paddy soils	8
Microbial ammonium immobilization promoted soil nitrogen retention under high moisture conditions in intensively managed fluvo-aquic soils	8
Enhanced CO2 emissions from soil organic matter in agricultural fields during microbial community assemblage	8
Rapid fertilizer turnover and dominant soil N mineralization in a cool-climate vineyard revealed by 15N tracing, biological N availability, and N exposure	8
Role of root hair elongation in rhizosheath aggregation and in the carbon flow into the soil	8
Storage, not plant residues, may influence bacterial communities in air-dried soils even at -80 ℃	8
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance at low-field as an approach for fertiliser dissolution monitoring	8
Living roots enhance the decomposition of dead roots rather than native organic matter in rice soils under elevated [CO2] and warming	7

Plant sexual variation modulates rhizospheric nutrient processes through the soil microbiome response to drought and rewetting in Populus cathayana	7
Host genotype‑specific plant microbiome correlates with wheat disease resistance	7
Soil types differ in the temporal response of the priming effect to nitrogen addition: a study on microbial mechanisms	7
Rhizosphere carbon reaction in response to wildfire smoke deposition	7
High soil moisture rather than drying-rewetting cycles reduces the effectiveness of nitrification inhibitors in mitigating N2O emissions	7
The active role of comammox Nitrospira in nitrification in acidic orchard soils revealed by DNA-SIP	7
Pyraclostrobin and polyethylene nanoplastics jointly interfere with the antibiotic resistome in earthworm gut	7
Digging deeper into soil metagenomics: Opportunities and limitations for studying the genomic potential of soil bacteria and archaea	7
Adenylate energy charge (AEC) in soil: an almost ignored determination of soil microbial activity - in memory of Phil Brookes	7
Litter chemical traits, microbial and soil stoichiometry regulate organic carbon accrual of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter	7
Biochar mitigates nitrogen deposition-induced enhancement of soil N2O emissions in a subtropical forest	7
Halophyte functional groups influence seasonal variations in rhizosphere microbial necromass and enzyme activities in an inland saline ecosystem	7
The contribution of the phototrophic fraction in the fertility of different successional stages of induced biological soil crusts	7
Potato yield and quality are linked to cover crop and soil microbiome, respectively	7
Effects of the number of 15 N-injection needles on the estimation of gross N transformation rates using 15 N tracing tool including plant	7
Livestock manure-derived hydrochar is more inclined to mitigate soil Global Warming Potential than raw materials based on soil stoichiometry analysis	7
Phosphorus fertilizer enhances the tolerance of rhizosphere microbial community to low-light stress in Tartary buckwheat	6
Coupling of δ13C and δ15N to understand soil organic matter sources and C and N cycling under different land-uses and management: a review and data analysis	6
Effects of aging treatments on the biofilm formation on low density polyethylene microplastics in constructed wetland soils	6
Pre-sowing recurrent inoculation with Pseudomonas fluorescens promotes maize growth	6
Correction to: Waterlogging effects on N2O and N2 emissions from a Stagnosol cultivated with Silphium perfoliatum and silage maize	6
The priming effect dynamics are driven by microbial activation and growth and constrained by the relative availability of input C and soil N	6
Background soil nitrogen regulates the contribution of cover crop-derived nitrogen into subsequent crop	6
Sensitive control of N2O emissions and microbial community dynamics by organic fertilizer and soil interactions	6
Litter quality controls the contribution of microbial carbon to main microbial groups and soil organic carbon during its decomposition	6
Microbiome dynamics of soils covered by plastic and bioplastic mulches	6
Fate of synthetic fertilizer nitrogen in a maize system depends on dairy manure type: insights from an isotopic tracing field study	6
A new modeling approach for denitrification taking internal chemical gradients into account	6
Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application	6
Significant role of microbial nitrogen use efficiency in regulating long-term soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry	6
Full-factorial resource amendment experiments reveal carbon limitation of rhizosphere microbes in alpine coniferous forests	6
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen in soils: process, regulation, and ecological significance	6
Redox controls on anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to reduction of natural organic matter in paddy ecosystems	6
Contrasting effects of elevated CO2 on autotrophic prokaryotes with different CO2 fixation strategies in tea plantation soil	6
From earth to space: how bacterial consortia and green compost improve lettuce growth on lunar and martian simulants	6