A5080788562- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Process Optimization and Integration
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
University of Bayreuth
2022-2024
Technical University of Munich
2000-2022
Summary Biophysicochemical rhizosheath properties play a vital role in plant drought adaptation. However, their integration into the framework of response is hampered by incomplete mechanistic understanding responsiveness and unknown linkage to intraspecific plant–soil reactions. Thirty‐eight Zea mays varieties were grown under well‐watered conditions assess properties, such as soil aggregation, mass, net‐rhizodeposition, organic carbon distribution. Additionally, explanatory traits,...
A holistic understanding of plant strategies to acquire soil resources is pivotal in achieving sustainable food security. However, we lack knowledge about variety-specific root and rhizosphere traits for resource acquisition, their plasticity adaptation drought. We conducted a greenhouse experiment phenotype (mean diameter [Root D], specific length [SRL], tissue density, nitrogen content, rhizosheath mass [SRM], arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi [AMF] colonization) 16 landraces 22 modern...
Stomatal regulation allows plants to promptly respond water stress. However, our understanding of the impact above and belowground hydraulic traits on stomatal remains incomplete. The objective this study was investigate how key plant transpiration maize during soil drying. We hypothesize that response drying is related a loss in conductivity at root-soil interface, which turn depends traits.We 48 contrasting (Zea mays) genotypes drying, utilizing novel phenotyping facility. In context, we...
The close interconnection of plants with rhizosphere- and root-associated microorganisms is well recognized, high expectations are raised for considering their symbioses in the breeding future crop varieties. However, it unclear how consistently plant-mediated selection, a potential target breeding, influences microbiome members compared to selection imposed by agricultural environment. Landraces may have traits shaping microbiome, which were lost during modern varieties, but knowledge about...
ABSTRACT Silage maize ( Zea mays L.) intensification to maximise biomass production increases greenhouse gas emissions, accelerates climate change and intensifies the search for alternative bioenergy crops with high carbon (C) sequestration capacity. The perennial cup‐plant Silphium perfoliatum not only serves as a viable source but may also be promising soil C conservator. However, dynamics of organic (SOC) under C3 cup‐plant, exposed moderate drought conditions, that reduces growth rate...
The spatial arrangement of the soil surrounding root can improve plant resource acquisition under drought and is closely related to fate organic carbon (SOC). Thus, formation structure establishment a stable rhizosheath potentially resistance contribute maintained crop yields during events. Yet, complex process determined by interaction between various functional properties, such as (micro)biome, exudation, or morphological characteristics. To date, it not understood how water scarcity...
<p>The occurrence of drought is likely to increase and intensify as a result climate change, which poses great challenge agriculture. It thus crucial enhance agronomic resilience secure food feed production. Roots root functioning well the interplay roots with surrounding soil, rhizosphere, plays key role in water acquisition plants. Investigating rhizosphere traits hence promising shed light on future crops that better adapt stress. A strength this study screening various...
<p>Limited water supply is one of the largest impediments to food production worldwide in light climate change and increasing demand. Stomatal regulation allows plants promptly react stress regulate use. Although coordination between stomatal closure aboveground hydraulics has extensively been studied, our understanding impact belowground on remains, as yet, incomplete. The overall objective this study was investigate hydraulic conductivity affected by differences expressions...