OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Everything you must know about Azospirillum and its impact on agriculture and beyond	137
C:N:P stoichiometry regulates soil organic carbon mineralization and concomitant shifts in microbial community composition in paddy soil	111
Phospholipid fatty acids in soil—drawbacks and future prospects	81
Diversity and co-occurrence network modularization of bacterial communities determine soil fertility and crop yields in arid fertigation agroecosystems	49
Long-term manuring increases microbial carbon use efficiency and mitigates priming effect via alleviated soil acidification and resource limitation	45
Biological nitrification inhibition in maize—isolation and identification of hydrophobic inhibitors from root exudates	38
Divergent mineralization of hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic substrates and their priming effect in soils depending on their preferential utilization by bacteria and fungi	38
Polyamine-producing actinobacteria enhance biomass production and seed yield in Salicornia bigelovii	38
Carbon investment into mobilization of mineral and organic phosphorus by arbuscular mycorrhiza	34
Microbial carbon-use efficiency and straw-induced priming effect within soil aggregates are regulated by tillage history and balanced nutrient supply	34
Nutrient recovery from anaerobic digestion of food waste: impacts of digestate on plant growth and rhizosphere bacterial community composition and potential function in ryegrass	34
Depth distribution of soil organic matter and burrowing activity of earthworms—mesocosm study using X-ray tomography and luminophores	33
Greenhouse gas emissions and soil bacterial community as affected by biochar amendments after periodic mineral fertilizer applications	33
Rare microbial taxa rather than phoD gene abundance determine hotspots of alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity in the karst rhizosphere soil	32
Designing a multi-species inoculant of phosphate rock-solubilizing bacteria compatible with arbuscular mycorrhizae for plant growth promotion in low-P soil amended with PR	32
Reduced nitrification by biochar and/or nitrification inhibitor is closely linked with the abundance of comammox Nitrospira in a highly acidic sugarcane soil	31
Effects of drying/rewetting on soil aggregate dynamics and implications for organic matter turnover	31
Wheat straw and its biochar differently affect soil properties and field-based greenhouse gas emission in a Chernozemic soil	30
Catch crop diversity increases rhizosphere carbon input and soil microbial biomass	30
Revisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures	29
Biochar co-application mitigated the stimulation of organic amendments on soil respiration by decreasing microbial activities in an infertile soil	29
Plant growth–promoting bacteria improve maize growth through reshaping the rhizobacterial community in low-nitrogen and low-phosphorus soil	29
Application of N2-fixing Paenibacillus triticisoli BJ-18 changes the compositions and functions of the bacterial, diazotrophic, and fungal microbiomes in the rhizosphere and root/shoot endosphere of w	28
Disclosure of exact protocols of fermentation, identity of microorganisms within consortia, formation of advanced consortia with microbe-based products	28
Litter-inhabiting fungi show high level of specialization towards biopolymers composing plant and fungal biomass	27

Hyphosphere microbiome of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a realm of unknowns	27
Soil microbial biomass phosphorus can serve as an index to reflect soil phosphorus fertility	27
The effect of agroecosystem management on the distribution of C functional groups in soil organic matter: A review	26
Root exudation of contrasting drought-stressed pearl millet genotypes conveys varying biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) activity	26
Biochar affects taxonomic and functional community composition of protists	26
Effects of moisture and temperature on C and N mineralization from surface-applied cover crop residues	25
A new primer set for Clade I nosZ that recovers genes from a broader range of taxa	25
Revealing interactions between root phenolic metabolomes and rhizosphere bacterial communities in Populus euphratica plantations	24
Importance of substrate quality and clay content on microbial extracellular polymeric substances production and aggregate stability in soils	24
Earthworm ecological categories are not functional groups	24
Biochar accelerates soil organic carbon mineralization via rhizodeposit-activated Actinobacteria	23
Theory of microbial coexistence in promoting soil–plant ecosystem health	22
Hydrolyzable microplastics in soil—low biodegradation but formation of a specific microbial habitat?	22
Influence of liming-induced pH changes on nitrous oxide emission, nirS, nirK and nosZ gene abundance from applied cattle urine in allophanic and fluvial grazed pasture soils	22
Crop residue carbon-to-nitrogen ratio regulates denitrifier N2O production post flooding	21
Carbon sequestration in aggregates from native and cultivated soils as affected by soil stoichiometry	21
Impact of grazing on shaping abundance and composition of active methanotrophs and methane oxidation activity in a grassland soil	20
Long-term elevated CO2 and warming enhance microbial necromass carbon accumulation in a paddy soil	19
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) intercropping with reduced nitrogen input influences rhizosphere phosphorus dynamics and phosphorus acquisition of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)	19
Warming yields distinct accumulation patterns of microbial residues in dry and wet alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	19
Effect of protists on rhizobacterial community composition and rice plant growth in a biochar amended soil	19
Phosphorus fertilization rather than nitrogen fertilization, growing season and plant successional stage structures arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in a subtropical forest	19
Unveiling of active diazotrophs in a flooded rice soil by combination of NanoSIMS and 15N2-DNA-stable isotope probing	19
Mycorrhizal symbiosis balances rootstock-mediated growth-defence tradeoffs	19
Repeated litter inputs promoted stable soil organic carbon formation by increasing fungal dominance and carbon use efficiency	19
Effects of rotational and continuous overgrazing on newly assimilated C allocation	19
Biochar significantly reduced nutrient-induced positive priming in a subtropical forest soil	18
Impact of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on resident soil and root mycobiomes in beech forests	18
C:P stoichiometric imbalance between soil and microorganisms drives microbial phosphorus turnover in the rhizosphere	18
Different community compositions between obligate and facultative oomycete plant parasites in a landscape-scale metabarcoding survey	18
Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium dominates soil nitrate retention capacity in subtropical forests	18
Shifts in soil microbial stoichiometry and metabolic quotient provide evidence for a critical tipping point at 1% soil organic carbon in an agricultural post-mining chronosequence	17
Higher ammonium-to-nitrate ratio shapes distinct soil nitrifying community and favors the growth of Moso bamboo in contrast to broadleaf tree species	17
Repeated drying and rewetting cycles accelerate bacterial growth recovery after rewetting	17
Weathering and soil formation in hot, dry environments mediated by plant–microbe interactions	17
Dinitrogen (N2) pulse emissions during freeze-thaw cycles from montane grassland soil	17
Biofertilizer application triggered microbial assembly in microaggregates associated with tomato bacterial wilt suppression	16
Biochar modifies the content of primary metabolites in the rhizosphere of well-watered and drought-stressed Zea mays L. (maize)	16
Correlation of the abundance of bacteria catalyzing phosphorus and nitrogen turnover in biological soil crusts of temperate forests of Germany	16
Incorporation of root-derived carbon into soil microarthropods varies between cropping systems	16
Co-incorporating leguminous green manure and rice straw drives the synergistic release of carbon and nitrogen, increases hydrolase activities, and changes the composition of main microbial groups	16
3, 4-Dimethylpyrazole phosphate is an effective and specific inhibitor of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria	16
Functional community composition has less environmental variability than taxonomic composition in straw-degrading bacteria	16
Effects of synthetic nitrification inhibitor (3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate; DMPP) and biological nitrification inhibitor (methyl 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate; MHPP) on the gross N nitrification ra	15
Carbon use efficiency and microbial functional diversity in a temperate Luvisol and a tropical Nitisol after millet litter and N addition	15
Mineralisation of distinct biogas digestate qualities directly after application to soil	15
Shifts in the bacterial community along with root-associated compartments of maize as affected by goethite	15
Biochar decreased rhizodeposits stabilization via opposite effects on bacteria and fungi: diminished fungi-promoted aggregation and enhanced bacterial mineralization	14
Field-aged biochar decreased N2O emissions by reducing autotrophic nitrification in a sandy loam soil	14
Identification and verification of key functional groups of biochar influencing soil N2O emission	14

Effects of the nitrification inhibitor 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) on the activity and diversity of the soil microbial community under contrasting soil pH	14
Procyanidin inhibited N2O emissions from paddy soils by affecting nitrate reductase activity and nirS- and nirK-denitrifier populations	14
Dissimilatory nitrate ammonification and N2 fixation helps maintain nitrogen nutrition in resource-limited rice paddies	14
Resource stoichiometric and fertility in soil	14
High frequency of extreme precipitation increases Stipa grandis biomass by altering plant and microbial nitrogen acquisition	13
Nitrification inhibitor DMPP offsets the increase in N2O emission induced by soil salinity	13
BNI-release mechanisms in plant root systems: current status of understanding	13
Soil-root interface influences the assembly of the endophytic bacterial community in rice plants	13
Changes of microbial functional capacities in the rhizosphere contribute to aluminum tolerance by genotype-specific soybeans in acid soils	13
Chemical properties of agro-waste compost affect greenhouse gas emission from soils through changed C and N mineralisation	13
Biomass, chemical composition, and microbial decomposability of rice root and straw produced under co-elevated CO2 and temperature	13
Recommendations for stronger biochar research in soil biology and fertility	13
Temporal dynamics of total and active prokaryotic communities in two Mediterranean orchard soils treated with solid anaerobic digestate or managed under no-tillage	13
Steering microbiomes by organic amendments towards climate-smart agricultural soils	13
Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium increased with rising temperature	13