Conservation Agriculture links productivity with ecological sustainability. To which extent is it implemented in ARG🇦🇷 and GER🇩🇪? Find the answer here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Great collaboration between @jki-research.bsky.social and Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria INTA

On 28 May, students of the international #AgriGenomics Master's programme at @uni-kiel.de visited @agmicro-lab.bsky.social and JKI Institutes in Braunschweig. The visit included lectures, laboratory insights, greenhouse tours and presentations on #plant protection #research. It was a pleasure! 💚#CAU

It was a pleasure having @taniagalindoc.bsky.social from ETH Zurich at our @jki-research.bsky.social department colloquium! Thanks a lot Tania for the exciting and insightful talk and for your time to come over and discuss projects and ideas with our group. We‘ve learned: root diversity matters! 👏🏻🌱

🌱 JKI supports sustainable #farming innovation in #Uruguay through the Uruguayan–German Dialogue on Agriculture #DAUA with regional #research partnerships, including #soil microbiome research and #agricultural dialogue initiatives. @doreenbabin.bsky.social 🎥 youtu.be/R51Tf0PuMWk?...

Salud del suelo y fijación de carbono | Soil health and carbon fixation

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New study with contribution from Andrea Braun-Kiewnick and @doreenbabin.bsky.social just published: Myxobacteria might be promising candidates for new plant-beneficial inoculants. 🦠🧫 Huge thanks to team Uni Greifswald for the great collaboration. Quelle: SpringerLink share.google/VpqxAKIeyicd...

Myxobacteria inoculation of wheat seeds – minor changes in the soil microbial community composition but potential for a reduction of take-all disease under greenhouse conditions - Plant and Soil

Background The price for wheat is driving the expansion of agricultural monocropping practices, which in turn facilitate the spread of phytopathogenic fungal infestation. Inoculating plants/ seeds with beneficial bacteria offers a sustainable alternative to chemical fungicides. Predatory myxobacteria are characterized by their production of various lytic secondary metabolites including fungicides. While their modes of action with prey are well studied, the direct application of myxobacteria in plants remains largely unexplored. Aims The aim of this study was to assess whether seed inoculation with myxobacteria has a general effect on plant growth and can control take-all disease caused by Gaeumannomyces tritici (Ggt) in wheat in vivo. Methods The inhibition potential of five different myxobacteria on ten soil-borne phytopathogenic fungi was examined in vitro. The effective myxobacteria, Haliangium ochraceum and Myxococcus virescens, were used as seed inoculants of winter wheat, which was grown for four weeks in soil infected with the pathogen Ggt in an in vivo greenhouse experiment. Results Myxobacteria inoculation did not impair plant growth (with and without Ggt infection), and M. virescens even showed a slight growth-promoting effect. Furthermore, myxobacteria inoculated plants showed a 50% reduction in symptoms of Ggt infestation compared to non-inoculated controls. Microbial (bacterial and archaeal) community profiling revealed no significant changes in rhizosphere and minor changes in bulk soil in response to myxobacteria inoculation. Conclusions Our study suggests that myxobacteria might be promising candidates for new plant-beneficial inoculants.

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Wonderful Easter surprise: our publication single vs. co-inoculation of AMF/Trichoderma is among the most-cited papers of Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment in 2024 @wiley.com @doreenbabin.bsky.social #TopCitedArticle Thanks to all readers! 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Alone as effective as together: AMF and Trichoderma inoculation boost maize performance but differentially shape soil and rhizosphere microbiota

Overview of the greenhouse experiment aiming to study the effect of single and combined inoculation of Trichoderma and AMF on maize performance and belowground microbial communities. After 7 weeks of...

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Job alert: We are seeking a PhD student (65%, 3 years) for a collaboration project with @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social If you are interested on molecular plant-microbe interactions and conducting basic research to solve current agricultural problems, then please check 👉 interamt.de/koop/app/ste...

Made my day: Our publication from the RhizoWheat project is the most read and 3rd most cited article in the APS society journal Phytobiomes 2025. We are very happy and proud! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to everyone who contributed to it! 🙏🏻 @jki-research.bsky.social apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

The Microbiome of Continuous Wheat Rotations: Minor Shifts in Bacterial and Archaeal Communities but a Source for Functionally Active Plant-Beneficial Bacteria | Phytobiomes Journal

Continuous wheat cropping often leads to yield decline, with suspected causes including increased pathogen susceptibility, decreased root growth, or low nutrient use efficiency, although the exact cau...

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Thanks and muchas gracias to @gaby-gnecco.bsky.social who joined our group this year to push this project forward together with INTA colleagues resulting in a systematic literature research and a review article submitted. A perfect basis for hopefully many more collaborations with Argentina!

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#JKI and #INTA intensify international #cooperation: German & Argentine researchers analyze #conservation #agriculture from both perspectives, covering biodiversity, soil health & climate resilience, aiming to build robust evidence for more sustainable farming in both countries. tinyurl.com/2fcen6xd

In this recent study by my colleague Nemanja Kuzmanovic @jki-research.bsky.social we revealed the extraordinary genome plasticity of Rhizobiaceae members - a family comprising both nonpathogenic and pathogenic strains: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Novel insights into the genome organization of Rhizobiaceae: identification of linear plasmids

Members of the family Rhizobiaceae typically have multipartite genomes that are split between two or more replicons, including the chromosome and a variable number of extrachromosomal replicons (chrom...

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Glad to join for the first time the Plant Microbiome Symposium #PMS2025. Looking forward to a week full of interesting talks and inspiring discussions. I will present a poster on Thursday about synergistic effects between resident microbes and inoculants for improved maize performance under drought.

Congratulations to our Phd student Kristin Hauschild to her first-author-paper no.3 🥳 Here we tested whether different soil amendment strategies (catch crops, microbial inoculants) can improve apple plant performance in replant disease-affected soil. academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Catch crop amendments and microbial inoculants differently modulate apple rhizosphere microbiomes and plant responses

Catch crop amendments and microbial inoculants induce distinct alterations in the rhizosphere and soil microbiome of apple grown under replanting condition

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We are excited to attend the #Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh. Don't miss the presentation of @jonkampouris.bsky.social on Monday 16th June 11:40am (session Rhizosphere Microbiome-Function BC2) and the poster presentation by Andrea Braun-Kiewnick on Monday 16th June 5pm!

Extremly grateful that our publication Braun-Kiewnick et al. was selected as Editor’s Pick @phytobiomesjournal.bsky.social apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

The Microbiome of Continuous Wheat Rotations: Minor Shifts in Bacterial and Archaeal Communities but a Source for Functionally Active Plant-Beneficial Bacteria | Phytobiomes Journal

Continuous wheat cropping often leads to yield decline, with suspected causes including increased pathogen susceptibility, decreased root growth, or low nutrient use efficiency, although the exact cau...

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Sara Gallego and @jonkampouris.bsky.social from our group showed recently, together with collaborators, that water pollution is decisive for the dissemination and spread of antibiotic resistant genes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wastewater-borne pollutants influenced antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in the soil without affecting the bacterial community composition in a changing wastewater irrigation sys...

Over decades, untreated wastewater from México City was used to irrigate crops in the Mezquital Valley. With the construction of a wastewater treatmen…

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Another publication became available today. Congrats to @jonkampouris.bsky.social and the whole DiControl team!

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Update: the paper about the 2 years inoculation study in the field is out now in Environmental Microbiome 🥳 environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New publication out describing data collection since 2004 in a Central Germany field trial with contrasting tillage and fertilization. Data comprises soil nutrients, microbiome, plant gene expression, yield @doreenbabin.bsky.social @jonkampouris@bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Two decades long-term field trial data on fertilization, tillage, and crop rotation focusing on soil microbes - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Two decades long-term field trial data on fertilization, tillage, and crop rotation focusing on soil microbes

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What a pleasure presenting the final results of a two years inoculation field experiment at IOBC-WPRS Biocontrol meeting in Turin today - sampling&analysis was a lot of work, but with many great people and the results paid off. The study will soon be published (proof loading). Stay tuned 😉

Inoculation with a microbial consortium mitigates early drought in maize under field conditions. Finally published: rdcu.be/eo0iU Great collaboration within the DiControl project of @jonkampouris.bsky.social @doreenbabin.bsky.social @igzleibniz.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social and many more

What does pasture presence in a crop sequence do to the soil microbiome, soil health and crop performance? The answer is here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/bac...

Frontiers | Plant-beneficial bacteria are promoted in pasture-crop rotations in the Uruguayan Pampa, contributing to soil health and crop performance

IntroductionUnderstanding how pasture-crop rotation design influences long-term soil health and microbial dynamics is crucial for sustainable agroecosystems....

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Is Bacillus inoculation the solution to mitigate wheat yield decline? Get the answer from Andrea Braun-Kiewnick's poster about RhizoWheat project results at the Rhizo4Bio Statusseminar presented by @doreenbabin.bsky.social

Under non-stressful plant conditions is the ability to form biofilm not essential for inoculant rhizocompetence. Result from our new published study 👇🏻 doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...

If you are attending VAAM Annual Conference in Bochum, then don't miss Ioannis Kampouris talk on Wednesday 10:15 am in session "Microbial communities II"👇🏻

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This year I am presenting in #VAAM 2025 a piece of my work as a postdoc in @agmicro-lab.bsky.social led by @doreenbabin.bsky.social, with a focus on drought stress and interactions of inoculated plant-BMs with the resident rhizosphere microbiome.

Job alert: Are you interested in agroecology? We are looking for a 65%PhD student to work on weed-suppressive microbes in the frame of a European research consortium. More details and how to apply here: interamt.de/koop/app/ste... (english pdf announcement under "Anlagen")

Sampling campaign >11.000 km away in sunny Uruguay: Our lab members Niklas Plag and Simon Lewin are hunting for plant- and soil health-promoting bacteria together with INIA and DAUA colleagues dialogoagro.uy

Come and meet us at our joint JKI/IAK #GFFA booth no. 14. Happy to discuss how to improve plant and soil health with microbial inoculants

First paper 2025 from our group fresh off the press: seed inoculation with beneficial microbes can attenuate drought stress during maize growth link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exploring the potential of seed inoculation with microbial consortia to mitigate drought stress in maize plants under greenhouse conditions - Plant and Soil

Background and aims Plant-beneficial microbes may attenuate climate change-induced stresses on plants such as drought. We investigated the potential of beneficial microbial consortia (BMc) on plant gr...

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