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...

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...

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/...

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...

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

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 @[email protected] doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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...

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"👇🏻

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...

Hello Bluesky and bye bye X @AgMicro_Lab