OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Low nocturnal temperature changed protected tomato soil bacterial community composition and metabolite characteristics	189
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil	80
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	64
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	56
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	53
Root organic acid exudation mediates rhizosphere bacteria dynamics during drought–rehydration in Broussonetia papyrifera	51
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	48
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	42
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	41
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	41
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	41
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?	41
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	39
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	37
Evidence of endophytic nitrogen fixation as a potential mechanism supporting colonization of non-nodulating pioneer plants on a glacial foreland	36
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	35
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	35
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment	34
Rhizosphere-competent actinobacteria with ACC deaminase activity mitigate heavy metal stress in corn (Zea mays)	33
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery	33
Dynamic modulation of rhizosphere microbial diversity and function across tobacco growth stages by biochar	29
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	29
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola	28
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees	28

Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy	27
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system	26
Variations in the composition of tea leaves and soil microbial community	26
Bacterial necromass determines the response of mineral-associated organic matter to elevated CO2	25
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
Phosphorus (P) mobilisation from inorganic and organic P sources depends on P-acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica	25
Genotypic richness affects inorganic N uptake and N form preference of a clonal plant via altering soil N pools	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	23
Effects of nitrogen inputs on soil organic carbon in a subtropical plantation forest: variation with nitrogen addition methodology	23
Mineral N suppressed priming effect while increasing microbial C use efficiency and N2O production in sandy soils under long-term conservation management	23
Shifts in understory plant composition induced by nitrogen addition predict soil fungal beta diversity in a boreal forest	23
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	22
Organic fertilization strengthens multiple internal pathways for soil mineral nitrogen production: evidence from the meta-analysis of long-term field trials	21
Nitrate supply increases the resistance of cucumber to Fusarium wilt disease by regulating root exudation	21
Restoration of degraded alpine grasslands alters plant–microbial competition for nitrogen	21
Soil contribution to the cobalamin (vitamin B12) supply of terrestrial organisms	21
Interactive effects of plant litter chemistry and organic/inorganic forms of nitrogen addition on Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) soil respiration	21
Litter complexity rather than land-use intensity emerges as a key driver of taxonomic and isotopic diversity of Collembola in urban systems	20
Hybrid pathways of denitrification drive N2O but not N2 emissions from an acid-sulphate sugarcane soil	20
Continuous intake of facade eluates affects active and total soil Microbiome	20
Converting acidic forests to managed plantations reduces soil nitrogen loss by inhibiting autotrophic nitrification while inducing nitrate immobilization in the tropics	20
Functional redundant soil fauna and microbial groups and processes were fairly resistant to drought in an agroecosystem	20
Biochar accelerates soil organic carbon mineralization via rhizodeposit-activated Actinobacteria	20
Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation	19
Organic nitrogen fertilization benefits selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems	19
Elevational patterns of microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical mountain forest	19
Spring barley performance benefits from simultaneous shallow straw incorporation and top dressing as revealed by rhizotrons with resealable sampling ports	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
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	18
Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation	18
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability	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
Bacteria from the rhizosphere of a selenium hyperaccumulator plant can improve the selenium uptake of a non-hyperaccumulator plant	17
Effect of soil bacteriomes on mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis—interactive effects on maize (Zea mays L.) growth under salt stress	17
Reducing antibiotic resistance genes through biochar-enhanced reductive soil disinfestation	17
Herbivore Dung inputs mainly drive copiotrophic bacterial contributions to soil nutrient pool turnover in alpine grasslands	16
Root-associated microbiome dynamics reveal ecological responses to soil-borne pathogens in susceptible and tolerant tobacco varieties	16
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils	16
Investigating protistan predators and bacteria within soil microbiomes in agricultural ecosystems under organic and chemical fertilizer applications	15
Greenhouse growth bioassay confirms soil nitrogen availability indicated by the flush of CO2	15
Microbial and isotopomer analysis of N2O production pathways in a calcareous film-mulched farmland	15
Competition between shrubs and grasses in a shrub‒encroached temperate grassland: Implications from nitrogen acquisition	15
A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	15
Spotting ethylene in forest soils—What influences the occurrence of the phytohormone?	15
Increasing phosphorus availability reduces priming effect by facilitating microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest soil	15
Divergent effects of straw and biochar on soil carbon priming are depth-dependent in subtropical Moso bamboo forests	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
Nitrogen additions increase soil microbial nitrate- rather than ammonium- immobilization	14

Response of acetochlor degradation and bacterial community in black soil to the application of vermicompost	13
Grazing exclusion increases soil organic C through microbial necromass of root-derived C as traced by 13C labelling photosynthate	13
Fixation of CO2 by soil fungi: contribution to organic carbon pool and destination of fixed carbon products	13
Effects of organic mulching on soil aggregates, main microbial groups, and enzyme activity in Chinese hickory plantation	13
Effect of no-till followed by crop diversification on the soil microbiome in a boreal short cereal rotation	13
Mulching increases soil organic carbon via plant inputs and its microbial transformation	13
Harnessing key bacteria from suppressive soil to mitigate banana Panama disease	13
Nitrous oxide fluxes, their sources, and soil microbial communities depend more on carbon availability than long- and short-term phosphorus addition	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
Contrasting fine root-induced rhizosphere priming effects between coniferous and broadleaved trees	12
Cover crops in citrus orchards impact soil nutrient cycling and the soil microbiome after three years but effects are site-specific	12
A 13C-PLFA approach to assess the crop carbon allocation efficiency and arbuscular mycorrhizal assimilation capacity under conservation tillage	12
Spent mushroom substrate as a substitute for chemical fertilizer changes N-cycling genes and reduces N2O emission in different textured soils	12
A hitchhiker’s guide: estimates of microbial biomass and microbial gene abundance in soil	12