Plant and Soil - Marschner Reviews

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Marschner Reviews are authoritative reviews on topics that are highly relevant to soil–plant interactions, ranging from molecular to ecosystem levels. 
You will find listed here all the Marschner Reviews published in Plant and Soil and can freely access the reviews.

Biofortification of major crop plants with iron and zinc - achievements and future directions
James C. R. Stangoulis & Marija Knez
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Root traits with team benefits: understanding belowground interactions in intercropping systems
Z. Homulle, T. S. George & A. J. Karley
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Quantifying country-to-global scale nitrogen fixation for grain legumes: I. Reliance on nitrogen fixation of soybean, groundnut and pulses
Mark B. Peoples, Ken E. Giller, Erik S. Jensen & David F. Herridge
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Physiological and molecular advances in magnesium nutrition of plants
Xin-Yue Tian, Dong-Dong He, Shuang Bai, Wen-Zhi Zeng, Zheng Wang, Mo Wang, Liang-Quan Wu & Zhi-Chang Chen
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Silicon dynamics through the lens of soil-plant-animal interactions: perspectives for agricultural practices
Félix de Tombeur, Philippe Roux & Jean-Thomas Cornelis
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Lsi2: A black box in plant silicon transport
Devrim Coskun, Rupesh Deshmukh, S. M. Shivaraj, Paul Isenring & Richard R. Bélanger
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Root anatomy and soil resource capture
Jonathan P. Lynch, Christopher F. Strock, Hannah M. Schneider, Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Ishan Ajmera, Tania Galindo-Castañeda, Stephanie P. Klein & Meredith T. Hanlon
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Processes in submerged soils – linking redox potential, soil organic matter turnover and plants to nutrient cycling
Petra Marschner
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Pseudomonas simiae WCS417: star track of a model beneficial rhizobacterium
Corné M. J. Pieterse, Roeland L. Berendsen, Ronnie de Jonge, Ioannis A. Stringlis, Anja J. H. Van Dijken, Johan A. Van Pelt, Saskia C. M. Van Wees, Ke Yu, Christos Zamioudis & Peter A. H. M. Bakker
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Soil organic nitrogen: an overlooked but potentially significant contribution to crop nutrition
Soudeh Farzadfar, J. Diane Knight & Kate A. Congreves
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Resolving the mycorrhizal status of important northern hemisphere trees
Mark C. Brundrett & Leho Tedersoo
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Eco-functionality of organic matter in soils
Ellis Hoffland, Thomas W. Kuyper, Rob N. J. Comans & Rachel E. Creamer
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Selenium biofortification in the 21st century: status and challenges for healthy human nutrition
Michela Schiavon, Serenella Nardi, Francesca dalla Vecchia & Andrea Ertani
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The seed microbiome: Origins, interactions, and impacts
Eric B. Nelson
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Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions: structure, function, and predictive scaling for climate change mitigation
Lucas C. R. Silva, Hans Lambers 
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Arsenic and cadmium accumulation in rice and mitigation strategies
Fang-Jie Zhao, Peng Wang 
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Nutrient acquisition strategies in agroforestry systems
Marney E. Isaac, Kira A. Borden
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Preserving the nutritional quality of crop plants under a changing climate: importance and strategies
José C. Soares, Carla S. Santos, Susana M. P. Carvalho, Manuela M. Pintado & Marta W. Vasconcelos
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Plant allelochemicals: agronomic, nutritional and ecological relevance in the soil system
Aurelio Scavo, Cristina Abbate, Giovanni Mauromicale
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Cyanobacteria and loess—an underestimated interaction
Zorica Svirčev, Tamara Dulić, Igor Obreht, Geoffrey A. Codd, Frank Lehmkuhl, Slobodan B. Marković, Ulrich Hambach & Jussi Meriluoto 
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Hidden miners – the roles of cover crops and soil microorganisms in phosphorus cycling through agroecosystems
Moritz Hallama, Carola Pekrun, Hans Lambers, Ellen Kandeler
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It is not all about sodium: revealing tissue specificity and signalling roles of potassium in plant responses to salt stress
Honghong Wu,Xianchen Zhang, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Sergey Shabala
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Defining plant growth promoting rhizobacteria molecular and biochemical networks in beneficial plant-microbe interactions
Amanda Rosier, Flávio H. V. Medeiros & Harsh P. Bais
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Functional implications of root cortical senescence for soil resource capture
Hannah M. Schneider, Jonathan P. Lynch
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Soil or fire: what causes treeless sedgelands in Tasmanian wet forests?
David M. J. S. Bowman, George L. W. Perry
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Maintaining connectivity: understanding the role of root order and mycelial networks in fine root decomposition of woody plants
Katilyn V. Beidler, Seth G. Pritchard
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Opportunities for mobilizing recalcitrant phosphorus from agricultural soils: a review
Daniel Menezes-Blackburn, Courtney Giles, Tegan Darch, Timothy S. George, Martin Blackwell, Marc Stutter, Charles Shand, David Lumsdon, Patricia Cooper, Renate Wendler, Lawrie Brown, Danilo S. Almeida, Catherine Wearing, Hao Zhang, Philip M. Haygarth
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How belowground interactions contribute to the coexistence of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal species in severely phosphorus-impoverished hyperdiverse ecosystems
Hans Lambers, Felipe Albornoz, Lukasz Kotula, Etienne Laliberté, Kosala Ranathunge, François P. Teste, Graham Zemunik
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Zinc Homeostasis and isotopic fractionation in plants: a review
Cristina Caldelas, Dominik Jakob Weiss
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Global overview on nitrogen dynamics in mangroves and consequences of increasing nitrogen availability for these systems
Carla Roberta Gonçalves Reis, Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto, Rafael Silva Oliveira
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The value of soil respiration measurements for interpreting and modeling terrestrial carbon cycling
Claire L. Phillips, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Ankur R. Desai, Martin Lavoie, Dave Risk, Jianwu Tang, Katherine Todd-Brown, Rodrigo Vargas
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Rhizodeposition under drought and consequences for soil communities and ecosystem resilience
Catherine Preece, Josep Peñuelas
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Root-emitted volatile organic compounds: can they mediate belowground plant-plant interactions?
Benjamin M. Delory, Pierre Delaplace, Marie-Laure Fauconnier & Patrick du Jardin
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Ecological importance of soil bacterivores for ecosystem functions
Jean Trap, Michael Bonkowski, Claude Plassard,Cécile Villenave, Eric Blanchart
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Ecological relevance of strigolactones in nutrient uptake and other abiotic stresses, and in plant-microbe interactions below-ground
Beatriz Andreo-Jimenez, Carolien Ruyter-Spira, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Juan A. Lopez-Raez
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Ecological interpretations of nitrogen isotope ratios of terrestrial plants and soils
Joseph M. Craine, E. N. J. Brookshire, Michael D. Cramer, Niles J. Hasselquist, Keisuke Koba, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Lixin Wang
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Zinc-enriched fertilisers as a potential public health intervention in Africa
Edward J. M. Joy, Alexander J. Stein, Scott D. Young, E. Louise Ander, Michael J. Watts, Martin R. Broadley
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Advances in coupling of kinetics and molecular scale tools to shed light on soil biogeochemical processes
Donald L. Sparks
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Arbuscular mycorrhiza and nitrogen: implications for individual plants through to ecosystems
Angela Hodge, Kate Storer
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Agricultural uses of plant biostimulants
Pamela Calvo, Louise Nelson, Joseph W. Kloepper
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Rhizobacterial salicylate production provokes headaches!
Peter A. H. M. Bakker, LongXian Ran, Jesús Mercado-Blanco
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Molecular mechanisms of Al tolerance in gramineous plants
Jian Feng Ma, Zhi Chang Chen, Ren Fang Shen
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Impacts of acid deposition, ozone exposure and weather conditions on forest ecosystems in Europe: an overview
W. de Vries, M. H. Dobbertin, S. Solberg, H. F. van Dobben, M. Schaub
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Plant genetic effects on soils under climate change
D. G. Fischer, S. K. Chapman, A. T. Classen, C. A. Gehring, K. C. Grady, J. A. Schweitzer, T. G. Whitham
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Advances in plant growth-promoting bacterial inoculant technology: formulations and practical perspectives (1998–2013)
Yoav Bashan, Luz E. de-Bashan, S. R. Prabhu, Juan-Pablo Hernandez
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Ecological mitigation of hillslope instability: ten key issues facing researchers and practitioners
Alexia Stokes, Grant B. Douglas, Thierry Fourcaud, Filippo Giadrossich, Clayton Gillies, Thomas Hubble, John H. Kim, Kenneth W. Loades, Zhun Mao, Ian R. McIvor, Slobodan B. Mickovski, Stephen Mitchell, Normaniza Osman, Chris Phillips, Jean Poesen, Dave Polster, Federico Preti, Pierre Raymond, Freddy Rey, Massimiliano Schwarz & Lawrence R. Walker
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Plant: soil interactions in temperate multi-cropping production systems
Jürgen Ehrmann, Karl Ritz
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Organic N molecules in the soil solution: what is known, what is unknown and the path forwards
Charles R. Warren
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Deposition rates in growing tissue: Implications for physiology, molecular biology, and response to environmental variation
Wendy K. Silk, Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot
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Back to the basics: The need for ecophysiological insights to enhance our understanding of microbial behaviour in the rhizosphere
Francisco Dini-Andreote, Jan Dirk van Elsas
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Zinc fertilizer placement affects zinc content in maize plant
Yue-Qiang Zhang, Li-Li Pang, Peng Yan, Dun-Yi Liu, Wei Zhang, Russell Yost, Fu-Suo Zhang & Chun-Qin Zou
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Interaction of aluminium and drought stress on root growth and crop yield on acid soils
Zhong-Bao Yang, Idupulapati Madhusudana Rao, Walter Johannes Horst
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The extent of mycorrhizal colonization of roots and its influence on plant growth and phosphorus content
Kathleen K. Treseder
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Nitrogen acquisition by roots: physiological and developmental mechanisms ensuring plant adaptation to a fluctuating resource
Philippe Nacry, Eléonore Bouguyon, Alain Gojon
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Sodium as nutrient and toxicant
Herbert J. Kronzucker, Devrim Coskun, Lasse M. Schulze, Jessie R. Wong, Dev T. Britto
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Mycorrhizas and mycorrhizal fungal communities throughout ecosystem development
Ian A. Dickie, Laura B. Martínez-García, Nina Koele, G.-A. Grelet, Jason M. Tylianakis, Duane A. Peltzer, Sarah J. Richardson
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The production and turnover of extramatrical mycelium of ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest soils: role in carbon cycling
A. Ekblad, H. Wallander, D. L. Godbold, C. Cruz, D. Johnson, P. Baldrian, R. G. Björk, D. Epron, B. Kieliszewska-Rokicka, R. Kjøller, H. Kraigher, E. Matzner, J. Neumann & C. Plassard OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
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Plant-soil interactions in Mediterranean forest and shrublands: impacts of climatic change
J. Sardans, J. Peñuelas
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Application of ground penetrating radar for coarse root detection and quantification: a review
Li Guo, Jin Chen, Xihong Cui, Bihang Fan, Henry Lin
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The importance of root-produced volatiles as foraging cues for entomopathogenic nematodes.
Ted C. J. Turlings, Ivan Hiltpold and Sergio Rasmann
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Roles of root border cells in plant defense and regulation of rhizosphere microbial populations by extracellular DNA ‘trapping’.
Martha C. Hawes, Gilberto Curlango-Rivera, Zhongguo Xiong und John O. Kessler
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Plant growth and physiology under heterogeneous salinity.
Nadia Bazihizina, Edward G. Barrett-Lennard und Timothy D. Colmer
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Developing X-ray Computed Tomography to non-invasively image 3-D root systems architecture in soil
S. J. Mooney, T. P. Pridmore, J. Helliwell and M. J. Bennett
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Aboveground–belowground interactions as a source of complementarity effects in biodiversity experiments
Nico Eisenhauer
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Nitrogen transformations in boreal forest soils—does composition of plant secondary compounds give any explanations?
Aino Smolander, Sanna Kanerva, Bartosz Adamczyk und Veikko Kitunen
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Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies
Hans Lambers, Mark C. Brundrett, John A. Raven und Stephen D. Hopper
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Acquisition of phosphorus and other poorly mobile nutrients by roots. Where do plant nutrition models fail?
Philippe Hinsinger, Alain Brauman, Nicolas Devau, Frédéric Gérard, Christophe Jourdan, Jean-Paul Laclau, Edith Le Cadre, Benoît Jaillard & Claude Plassard
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Root hairs: development, growth and evolution at the plant-soil interface.
Sourav Datta, Chul Min Kim, Monica Pernas, Nuno D. Pires, Hélène Proust, Thomas Tam, Priya Vijayakumar & Liam Dolan
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Verticillium wilt of olive: a case study to implement an integrated strategy to control a soil-borne pathogen.
Francisco Javier López-Escudero und Jesús Mercado-Blanco
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Does the combined application of organic and mineral nutrient sources influence maize productivity? A meta-analysis
Pauline Chivenge, Bernard Vanlauwe und Johan Six
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Potential mechanisms for achieving agricultural benefits from biochar application to temperate soils: a review
Christopher J. Atkinson, Jean D. Fitzgerald & Neil A. Hipps
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Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies
Hans Lambers, Mark C. Brundrett, John A. Raven & Stephen D. Hopper
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Release of plant-borne flavonoids into the rhizosphere and their role in plant nutrition
Stefano Cesco, Guenter Neumann, Nicola Tomasi, Roberto Pinton & Laure Weisskopf
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Integrated effects of abiotic stresses on inoculant performance, legume growth and symbiotic dependence estimated by 15N dilution
Phillip M. Chalk, Bruno J. R. Alves, Robert M. Boddey & Segundo Urquiaga
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Arsenic uptake and toxicity in plants: integrating mycorrhizal influences
Sally E. Smith, Helle M. Christophersen, Suzanne Pope & F. Andrew Smith
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Desirable plant root traits for protecting natural and engineered slopes against landslides
Alexia Stokes, Claire Atger, Anthony Glyn Bengough, Thierry Fourcaud, Roy C. Sidle
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Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: Understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and developing reliable means of diagnosis
Mark C. Brundrett
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Synchrotron-based techniques for plant and soil science: opportunities, challenges and future perspectives
Enzo Lombi and Jean Susini
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Plant hydraulic lift of soil water - implications for crop production and land restoration
Hans-Holger Liste and Jason C. White
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Global inputs of biological nitrogen fixation in agricultural systems
David F. Herridge, Mark B. Peoples, Robert M. Boddey
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Assessing and analyzing 3D architecture of woody root systems, a review of methods and applications in tree and soil stability, resource acquisition and allocation
Frédéric Danjon and Bert Reubens
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Enrichment of cereal grains with zinc: Agronomic or genetic biofortification?
Ismail Cakmak
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Monovalent cation transporters; establishing a link between bioinformatics and physiology
Frans J. M. Maathuis
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Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil – concepts and mechanisms
Daniel D. Warnock, Johannes Lehmann, Thomas W. Kuyper & Matthias C. Rillig
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A new initiative in delivering cutting-edge science in soil–plant interactions
Hans Lambers, Lieve Bultynck & Yong-Guan Zhu
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