🌱🧬 P-starved Arabidopsis roots release malate to recruit Acinetobacter bacteria. On the rhizoplane, these microbes help unlock inaccessible phosphorus. This partnership boosts plant P nutrition—showing mutualism beyond mycorrhizae. #plantscience @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Mutually beneficial interactions between bacteria and Arabidopsis promote phosphorus nutrition and growth

Over 20% of root-associated bacteria promote Arabidopsis seedling growth under phosphorus (P) deficiency in a host-dependent manner. Further analyses showed that P-deficient plants secrete malate to a...

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🔥Just published in Rhizosphere: Functional traits of hydrolytic #enzymes are related to the extent of #root-root interactions in the #rhizosphere of #maize 🌱Study led by Negar Ghaderi shows important methodological aspect of enzymes measurement 👉Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...

🔥Just published in Soil Tillage & Research: Legacy effects of #subsoilCompaction and #EarthwormBiopores on soil #hydrophysicalProperties and root density in a temperate silt loam soil 📢🪱🪱🪱reduce negative effect of compaction #28y_experiment 👉Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚡️New paper in 'Crop and Environment' on how single-side #nitrogen banding increases rice yield and #NUE by promoting asymmetric root–soil nutrient interactions. 🌾🌾🌾 #Fertilizers #rice #nitrogen #SoilHealth 👉Permanent Link to the free paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

A short time ago, our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social presented TERRA, who we are, what we do, snd what we stand for, at the Geosymposium at the GUZ (@unituebingen.bsky.social).

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Nataliya Bilyera@nbilyera.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌱Happy to collaborate with @shengwen.bsky.social and other colleagues to investigate 🌏long-term impacts of mineral fertilization on #SoilMicrobiomes. ⚡We highlighted the exceptional value of #Long-termExperiments to understand how #MineralFertilization influences #SoilHealth. 📑Link: rdcu.be/fqAtd

🌱Happy to collaborate with @shengwen.bsky.social and other colleagues to investigate 🌏long-term impacts of mineral fertilization on #SoilMicrobiomes. ⚡We highlighted the exceptional value of #Long-termExperiments to understand how #MineralFertilization influences #SoilHealth. 📑Link: rdcu.be/fqAtd

#TansleyReview: Carbon uptake, storage, and allocation patterns contribute to blurring of annual 14C signals in tree rings Hessl et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

📰 #TERRA made the news! The Schwäbische Tagblatt covered our TERRA Cluster of Excellence kick-off. Great to see public interest around what we're building: 7 years of research into terrestrial geo-biosphere interactions, starting now. 🌍 👉 www.swp.de/lokales/tueb...

Fantastic talk from Eva Oburger on how to sample root exudes and rhizosphere soil from the same sample. Great methodological improvements to know more about life in the rhizosphere 😊

Wonderful talk at session SSS 4.7 ogöf @egu-sss.bsky.social on the role of AMF in the intercropping systems from @unituebingen.bsky.social !!!!

Michaela A. Dippold@michaeladippold.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today at #EGU2026: Yihan Pu from @unituebingen.bsky.social presented on #RootWayS project about a pot. 4th pathway of #facilitation in living mulch/ #intercropping systems: the #AMF -mediated crop-crop nutrient exchange. Clear, that we've not yet exploited our potential for #sustainable #agriculture

Very curious about the outcome of our search for a common language in Geo- and Biosciences. The TERRA-challenge, task 1)

Sustainable Pathways under Climate Variability@past2futureclimate.bsky.social · 5mo ago

TERRA's core hypothesis on links between geo- and biodiversity and stability- sometimes called our hypothesis generation machine ;-) you can discuss with Khatab now at #EGU poster X1.25 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-...

🔥We are starting our SSS4.2 session on emerging approaches in microbial interactions with the keynote talk of @edithhammer.bsky.social Edit Hammer. Such a great opportunity to listen about soil chips and touch them live🥰 @egu-sss.bsky.social

📢 We cordially invite Soil Science community to join our session on #SoilHealth under #GlobalChange and #HumanActivities tomorrow at #EGU2026 in Vienna! 💚 We are very happy to announce Diana Vieira as an invited speaker of our session! 🌍 @egu-sss.bsky.social

Soils and carbon: TERRA's Michaela Dippold discussing microbial life and death in soils at #EGU today meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @michaeladippold.bsky.social @terra-cluster.org

🌏 At the EGU today? Dot not miss our SSS division meeting at 12.30 in Room K2. This is a great opportunity to learn more about our division and the members! ✨ 🥂 We will also have an ECS networking reception tonight at 6pm on the rooftop Foyer+Foyer C #EGU #EGUSSS #soilscience #networking #ECS

Great Keynote talk from @michaeladippold.bsky.social who told us about the diversity of substrates and costs of enzymatic production by microorganisms. Questions from audience lasted long 🥳 It was really a 🔥 topic !

It was my great pleasure to present my view on opportunities and challenges to study hidden and existing microbial life in hotspots at #EGU-2026 @egu-sss.bsky.social

Michaela A. Dippold@michaeladippold.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Second keynote in session at #EGU2026 by @nbilyera.bsky.social from @unituebingen.bsky.social: Learning that #AI is very uneducated related to #soil hotspots and that high microbial dynamic in hotspot poses serious challenges on our follow-up studies. Great examples!

Second keynote in session at #EGU2026 by @nbilyera.bsky.social from @unituebingen.bsky.social: Learning that #AI is very uneducated related to #soil hotspots and that high microbial dynamic in hotspot poses serious challenges on our follow-up studies. Great examples!

It’s time to collect your #EGU26 badge 🙌 ! ✅ Get your QR code from Copernicus for a valid on-site registration. 👉 Get it here: egu.eu/9820DV ❓ For any further help, please reach out to: egu26@copernicus.org 📸 Andrew Chiverton on imaggeo.egu.eu

With EGU approaching, I look very much forward to it. Cu all in Vienna 🙂

Nataliya Bilyera@nbilyera.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📌Just two weeks left to submit your EGU-2026 abstract on Soil Health and join our session. 🌻Your contributions on various aspects of soil health with the central focus on biological soil health parameters 🪱🪳🦠are very welcome! ⏰️Deadline for submission is 15th January 2026

Day two of our amazing #TERRA 🌎 Kick-Off, meeting old and new friends and colleagues for a second day in a row.

Some impressions from our first day of the #TERRA Kick-Off. It was an amazing day. And day two is coming up.

Our #TERRA 🌎 Kick-Off is today and we're so giddy. The past couple of days and weeks have been a bit stressful but now we're finally there! We'll keep you posted! It's going to be #Excellent 💚

A position, I can only warmly recommend: it opens the door to the various opportunities at the excellent @unituebingen.bsky.social. Join #TeamTERRA - and contribute to a new generation of hybrid #models improving our capacity to project the impacts of global change. Apply NOW 😀

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions@terra-cluster.org · 6mo ago

🌍 Come work with us! We're hiring a #Postdoc at the intersection of #TERRA and @mackelab.bsky.social — using deep learning & LLMs to model fire dynamics in regional-to-global vegetation models 🔥🌲

Congratulations @jhenkhar.bsky.social: what a successful thesis defense. Very proud of the diversity and quality of your EarthShape work and how well you defended today @uni-goettingen.de. Great kiss for the #Gänseliesel - and very critical assessment of my skills putting your hat on 🙃. Enjoy all!

My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...

Please join us at #ICOM2026 in Cairns, Australia, this summer. @anthomycota.bsky.social and me are organising a special session on mycorrhizae and biogeochemical cycles at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (Session 23, icom2026.org). Abstract submission is open until February 28, 2026.

🏞️From a “stone-rich” farm to excellence research 🌱🌍 In an interview with the Südwest Presse, our group leader Michaela Dippold (@unituebingen.bsky.social) talks about her path into geoscience and her role in the #ExcellenceClusterTerra. 🐄🌍 📌Link to the article: epaper.swp.de/schwaebische...

NEW in @plantandsoil Localized #fertilizer co-applied with #biochar suspension increases #phosphorus uptake by #maize doi.org/10.1007/s111... Free: rdcu.be/e0ueW Lead by Irina Loginova #SoilOrganicCarbon #soil #agriculture #Roots #isotopes

Localized fertilizer co-applied with biochar suspension can increase phosphorus uptake by maize while enabling carbon-sequestration benefits - Plant and Soil

Background and aims Integrating biochar (BC) into agriculture promotes sustainable management of farm residues and carbon sequestration in soil. This study evaluates a novel approach combining suspend...

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