We received this week a visit from highly motivated and interested AgriGenomics students from CAU Kiel. I enjoyed giving some insights into our current research projects @agmicro-lab.bsky.social.

Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)@jki-research.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

🌱 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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I am glad for the opportunity to contribute to this successful bilateral collaboration between JKI and INTA! 🇩🇪🇦🇷

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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!

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.

This week I had the wonderful opportunity to teach in the framework of a postgraduate course about all facets of the rhizosphere microbiome and how to utilize it for a more sustainable agriculture. Thanks to my colleague Dr. Gabriela Fernandez-Gnecco for organizing the course and involving me! 🇦🇷

📢 IT'S A NEW ISSUE OF SOIL ORGANISMS 🤩 In the August issue of S.O. articles on #collembola, effects of #urbanization & the chapter on #soilbiodiversity in the Faktencheck Artenvielfalt, the German report on biodiversity, are highlighted. CHECK IT OUT ⬇️ Please REPOST soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO

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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Unfortunately I can't attend #Rhizosphere6 conference this time. But my colleagues are there with exciting new results from our lab 👇🏻

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

Wonderful surprise on a Sunday morning. Big thank you to @phytobiomesjournal.bsky.social for selecting our publication as Editor's pick!

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

Full of ideas after a productive retreat with @jki-research.bsky.social EP colleagues in the idyllic place Dresden-Pillnitz. Thanks to JKI-ZO colleagues for hosting us! @drhheuer.bsky.social

Recent publication from the lab. Great collaboration between @jki-research.bsky.social and INIA Uruguay

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Teaser: inoculated wheat after wheat performs similarly good as wheat after rapeseed. If you want to know more, pass by at the poster session this afternoon 👇🏻

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Final piece of our DFG project published. Great collaboration between JKI and TU Dresden @agmicro-lab.bsky.social @jhtzethof.bsky.social

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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")

Proud that our GFFA stand about the GER-URY bilateral project Micro2Health made it into the Uruguayan newspaper

AgMicro-Lab@agmicro-lab.bsky.social · 2y ago

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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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Bye bye X @DoreenBabin and hello bluesky!