Biology and Fertility of Soils

Papers
(The TQCC of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 12. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil143
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases68
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation64
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research63
How tree species with contrasting biological nitrification inhibition capacity influence denitrifier activity and abundance? Insights from reciprocal transfers of soil49
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks49
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 meadow48
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil43
Exploring polyphosphates in soil: presence, extractability, and contribution to microbial biomass phosphorus42
Soil N2O flux and nitrification and denitrification gene responses to feed-induced differences in the composition of dairy cow faeces42
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with contrasting life-history strategies differently affect health-promoting compounds in field-grown tomato by changing arbuscule occurrence and mycorrhizal assemblages i39
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil38
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate36
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix35
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment35
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system31
Evidence of endophytic nitrogen fixation as a potential mechanism supporting colonization of non-nodulating pioneer plants on a glacial foreland31
Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss31
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions31
Variations in the composition of tea leaves and soil microbial community31
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?31
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation30
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery29
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola29
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees28
Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy27
Biochar co-application mitigated the stimulation of organic amendments on soil respiration by decreasing microbial activities in an infertile soil26
Nitrogen uptake and reallocation from roots drive the regrowth of a dominant plant in temperate grassland after low defoliation25
Shifts in understory plant composition induced by nitrogen addition predict soil fungal beta diversity in a boreal forest25
Phosphorus (P) mobilisation from inorganic and organic P sources depends on P-acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica23
Liming enhances the abundance and stability of nitrogen-cycling microbes: the buffering effect of long-term lime application23
Genotypic richness affects inorganic N uptake and N form preference of a clonal plant via altering soil N pools23
Modified universal buffer does not necessarily maintain soil enzyme assay pH22
Bacterial necromass determines the response of mineral-associated organic matter to elevated CO222
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 gene22
Organic fertilization strengthens multiple internal pathways for soil mineral nitrogen production: evidence from the meta-analysis of long-term field trials21
Mycorrhizal symbiosis balances rootstock-mediated growth-defence tradeoffs21
Temporal dynamics of total and active prokaryotic communities in two Mediterranean orchard soils treated with solid anaerobic digestate or managed under no-tillage20
Interactive effects of plant litter chemistry and organic/inorganic forms of nitrogen addition on Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) soil respiration20
Mineral N suppressed priming effect while increasing microbial C use efficiency and N2O production in sandy soils under long-term conservation management20
Soil contribution to the cobalamin (vitamin B12) supply of terrestrial organisms19
Hybrid pathways of denitrification drive N2O but not N2 emissions from an acid-sulphate sugarcane soil19
Nitrate supply increases the resistance of cucumber to Fusarium wilt disease by regulating root exudation19
Converting acidic forests to managed plantations reduces soil nitrogen loss by inhibiting autotrophic nitrification while inducing nitrate immobilization in the tropics19
Restoration of degraded alpine grasslands alters plant–microbial competition for nitrogen19
Functional redundant soil fauna and microbial groups and processes were fairly resistant to drought in an agroecosystem19
Activity of anaerobic methane oxidation driven by different electron acceptors and the relative microbiome in paddy fields across various rice growth periods and soil layers18
Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation18
Competition for S-containing amino acids between rhizosphere microorganisms and plant roots: the role of cysteine in plant S acquisition18
Organic nitrogen fertilization benefits selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems18
Elevational patterns of microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical mountain forest18
Biochar accelerates soil organic carbon mineralization via rhizodeposit-activated Actinobacteria18
Impact of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on resident soil and root mycobiomes in beech forests18
Effect of soil bacteriomes on mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis—interactive effects on maize (Zea mays L.) growth under salt stress17
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability17
Spring barley performance benefits from simultaneous shallow straw incorporation and top dressing as revealed by rhizotrons with resealable sampling ports17
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component17
Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation16
Increasing phosphorus availability reduces priming effect by facilitating microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest soil16
Bacteria from the rhizosphere of a selenium hyperaccumulator plant can improve the selenium uptake of a non-hyperaccumulator plant16
Spotting ethylene in forest soils—What influences the occurrence of the phytohormone?16
Land use types affect soil microbial NO3− immobilization through changed fungal and bacterial contribution in alkaline soils of a subtropical montane agricultural landscape16
Investigating protistan predators and bacteria within soil microbiomes in agricultural ecosystems under organic and chemical fertilizer applications16
A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions15
Greenhouse growth bioassay confirms soil nitrogen availability indicated by the flush of CO215
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils15
Microbial and isotopomer analysis of N2O production pathways in a calcareous film-mulched farmland15
Hysteretic response of N2O reductase activity to soil pH variations after application of lime to an acidic agricultural soil14
Nitrous oxide fluxes, their sources, and soil microbial communities depend more on carbon availability than long- and short-term phosphorus addition14
Response of acetochlor degradation and bacterial community in black soil to the application of vermicompost14
Root exudation of contrasting drought-stressed pearl millet genotypes conveys varying biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) activity14
Effect of no-till followed by crop diversification on the soil microbiome in a boreal short cereal rotation14
Nitrogen additions increase soil microbial nitrate- rather than ammonium- immobilization14
Steering microbiomes by organic amendments towards climate-smart agricultural soils14
Pyrolysis temperature affects biochar suitability as an alternative rhizobial carrier14
Fixation of CO2 by soil fungi: contribution to organic carbon pool and destination of fixed carbon products13
Harnessing key bacteria from suppressive soil to mitigate banana Panama disease13
Effects of organic mulching on soil aggregates, main microbial groups, and enzyme activity in Chinese hickory plantation13
Two-phase processes characterize the turnover of high molecular weight dissolved organic nitrogen in soil13
Grazing exclusion increases soil organic C through microbial necromass of root-derived C as traced by 13C labelling photosynthate13
Soil bacterial and fungal communities beneath different forest types differentially and promptly respond to non-catastrophic typhoon disturbance12
Spent mushroom substrate as a substitute for chemical fertilizer changes N-cycling genes and reduces N2O emission in different textured soils12
Effect of agricultural management system (“cash crop”, “livestock” and “climate optimized”) on nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions12
Rhizosphere bacteriome assemblage following initial fluctuations is delayed with nitrogen additions in tomato seedlings12
A hitchhiker’s guide: estimates of microbial biomass and microbial gene abundance in soil12
Virus-like particles isolated from reactivated biological soil crusts12
N2O production is influenced by the abundance of nitrite-reducers and N2O-reducers in casts produced by a large variety of tropical earthworm species12
Extraction optimisation to measure viral abundance in red soils12
Top-down gene upregulation and not microbial community diversity in explaining local-scale litter decomposition12
Cover crops in citrus orchards impact soil nutrient cycling and the soil microbiome after three years but effects are site-specific12
High additions of nitrogen affect plant species-specific differences in the composition of main microbial groups and the uptake of rhizodeposited carbon in a grassland soil12
Effect of biodegradable plastics on greenhouse gas emission and paddy rice growth under flooding conditions12
Repeated drying and rewetting cycles accelerate bacterial growth recovery after rewetting12
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