Michael SchloterSummaryCountry: France Publications
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Stimulation of soil nitrification and denitrification by grazing in grasslands: do changes in plant species composition matter?X Le Roux
U M R 5557 Ecologie Microbienne U S C INRA 1196, bat 741, CNRS Université Lyon I, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Oecologia 137:417-25. 2003..Factors such as trampling, N returned in animal excreta, and/or modification of N uptake and C exudation by frequently defoliated plants could be responsible for the enhanced microbial activities...
Effects of aboveground grazing on coupling among nitrifier activity, abundance and community structureXavier Le Roux
INRA, CNRS, Universite de Lyon, Universite Lyon 1, UMR 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Villeurbanne, France
ISME J 2:221-32. 2008..The results also suggest that taxonomic affiliation does not fully infer functional traits of AOB...
Increased abundance of IncP-1beta plasmids and mercury resistance genes in mercury-polluted river sediments: first discovery of IncP-1beta plasmids with a complex mer transposon as the sole accessory elementKornelia Smalla
Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry BBA, Messeweg 11 12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:7253-9. 2006..This transposon carries a rather complex set of mer genes and is inserted between Tra1 and Tra2...
Quantification of functional genes from procaryotes in soil by PCRShilpi Sharma
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, P O Box 1129, D 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
J Microbiol Methods 68:445-52. 2007..Finally, some examples from recent papers are given to demonstrate the applicability and usefulness of the different approaches...
A new cultivation independent approach to detect and monitor common Trichoderma species in soilsAlexandra Hagn
GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85758 Neuherberg, Germany
J Microbiol Methods 69:86-92. 2007..In a realtime PCR approach the primer set uTf/uTr also proved to be a suitable system to quantify DNA of Trichoderma spp. in soils...
Traditional cattle manure application determines abundance, diversity and activity of methanogenic Archaea in arable European soilAndreas Gattinger
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Ingolstadter Landstr 1, D 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Environ Microbiol 9:612-24. 2007....
Influence of ozone on litter quality and its subsequent effects on the initial structure of colonizing microbial communitiesManish Kumar Aneja
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, P O Box 1129, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
Microb Ecol 54:151-60. 2007..As hypothesized, changed litter quality due to elevated O3 did influence the structure of litter-colonizing microbial communities. However, these differences were not as pronounced as those between the two plant species...
Response of soil microbial biomass and community structures to conventional and organic farming systems under identical crop rotationsJürgen Esperschütz
GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, Neuherberg, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 61:26-37. 2007..Prokaryotic communities responded most strongly to either conventional or organic farming management...
Changes in fungal community composition in response to vegetational succession during the natural regeneration of cutover peatlandsRebekka R E Artz
The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK
Microb Ecol 54:508-22. 2007..Together, these results suggest that the fungal community composition of peat may be an important indicator of the status of regeneration and potential carbon sequestration of cutover peatlands...
Recurrent soil freeze-thaw cycles enhance grassland productivityJuergen Kreyling
Conservation Biology, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Permoserstr 15, D 04318 Leipzig, Germany
New Phytol 177:938-45. 2008..Changes in productivity resulting in an increased shoot-to-root ratio and shifts in timing are capable of altering ecosystem stability and ecosystem services, such as productivity and nutrient retention...
Ochrobactrum rhizosphaerae sp. nov. and Ochrobactrum thiophenivorans sp. nov., isolated from the environmentPeter Kampfer
Institut fur Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen, D 35392 Giessen, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:1426-31. 2008..nov. (type strain PR17(T) =CCUG 55411(T) =CCM 7493(T) =DSM 19824(T)) and Ochrobactrum thiophenivorans sp. nov. (type strain DSM 7216(T) =CCUG 55412(T) =CCM 7492(T)) are proposed...
Shifts in microbial community functions and nitrifying communities as a result of combined application of copper and mefenoxamJoseph Demanou
Laboratory of General Biology, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
FEMS Microbiol Lett 260:55-62. 2006..Patterns 1 and 5 were seen in 93% of the clones and clustered together with amoA sequences of Nitrosospira, indicating that Nitrosospira-like organisms are the major nitrifiers under mefenoxam treatments...
The isotope array, a new tool that employs substrate-mediated labeling of rRNA for determination of microbial community structure and functionJustyna Adamczyk
, , D-85350 Freising, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:6875-87. 2003....
Influence of freeze-thaw stress on the structure and function of microbial communities and denitrifying populations in soilShilpi Sharma
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, P O Box 1129, D 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:2148-54. 2006..Also, the results presented here support the belief that the gas fluxes observed during thawing is a result of freezing initiated high microbial activity...
A new method for the detection of alkane-monooxygenase homologous genes (alkB) in soils based on PCR-hybridizationKarin Kloos
GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Institute for Soil Ecology, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
J Microbiol Methods 66:486-96. 2006..The majority of the cloned AlkB sequences were homologous to proteins from the Gram-positive bacteria. However, significant differences from published sequences were observed; homologies varied from 50% to 90% (identity of amino acids)...
Genotyping of Ochrobactrum anthropi by recA-based comparative sequence, PCR-RFLP, and 16S rRNA gene analysisHolger C Scholz
Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Lett 257:7-16. 2006..In summary, recA-sequence analysis provides a new reliable molecular subtyping tool to study the phylogeny of the Ochrobactrum taxon at both the inter- and intraspecies level...
Community structure in a methanotroph biofilter as revealed by phospholipid fatty acid analysisJulia Gebert
Institute of Soil Science, University of Hamburg, Allende Platz 2, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Lett 240:61-8. 2004..This indicates the development of a highly specific methanotrophic population, presumably as a result of the adaption to continuous organic trace gas exposure...
Short-term effects of amoxicillin on bacterial communities in manured soilChu Thi Thanh Binh
Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Braunschweig, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 62:290-302. 2007..Molecular fingerprint analysis of 16S rRNA gene fragments amplified from soil DNA revealed significant effects of manure and amoxicillin on the bacterial community of both soils...
Effects of cattle husbandry on abundance and activity of methanogenic archaea in upland soilsViviane Radl
Chair of Soil Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Oberschleissheim, Munich, Germany
ISME J 1:443-52. 2007..It can be concluded that after 5 months without cattle impact, the severely impact section maintained its methane production potential, whereas the methane production potential under moderate impact returned to background values...
RNA fingerprinting--a new method to screen for differences in plant litter degrading microbial communitiesManish K Aneja
GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, PO Box 1129, Neuherberg D-85764, Germany
J Microbiol Methods 59:223-31. 2004....
Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of bacteria belonging to the Ochrobactrum-Brucella group by recA and 16S rRNA gene-based comparative sequence analysisHolger C Scholz
Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Neuherbergstrasse 11, D 80937 Munich, Germany
Syst Appl Microbiol 31:1-16. 2008..In summary, Ochrobactrum is a highly diverse genus comprising several novel species. We recommend recA- in addition to rrs gene-analysis for correct species allocation and subtyping of novel Ochrobactrum isolates...
Detection methods for the expression of the dissimilatory copper-containing nitrite reductase gene (DnirK) in environmental samplesSigrun Metz
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
J Microbiol Methods 55:41-50. 2003..However, the amount of expressed enzyme was not reduced in the cells, although the N(2)O production rates dropped in the cultures 12 h after the shift from aerobic to anaerobic conditions...
Diversity of transcripts of nitrite reductase genes (nirK and nirS) in rhizospheres of grain legumesShilpi Sharma
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, P O Box 1129, D 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:2001-7. 2005..The study revealed a hitherto unknown diversity of denitrifiers in legume rhizospheres. A plant-dependent rhizosphere effect on the transcripts of a gene was evident...
Activity profiling of ectomycorrhiza communities in two forest soils using multiple enzymatic testsPierre Emmanuel Courty
Unité Mixte de Recherche INRA UHP 1136 Interactions Arbres Microorganismes, F 54280 Champenoux, France
New Phytol 167:309-19. 2005..By including a higher number of different assays for more detailed analyses, ECM activity profiling will provide a valuable tool for studying the functional diversity of ECM communities...
Structural and functional diversity of microbial communities from a lake sediment contaminated with trenbolone, an endocrine-disrupting chemicalViviane Radl
GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, PO Box 1129, D 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
Environ Pollut 137:345-53. 2005..Overall results indicate that microbial community function was more sensitive to TBOH treatment than the community structure and the total gene pool...
Comparative sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer 1 of Ochrobactrum speciesMichael Lebuhn
GSF National Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, Ingolstaedter Landstr 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Syst Appl Microbiol 29:265-75. 2006..Diversity of Ochrobactrum was higher in soil than at the rhizoplane below and at the species level. Isolates from soil contained only 1 rrn type whereas isolates from human clinical, animal and rhizoplane specimens could contain more...
Ochrobactrum oryzae sp. nov., an endophytic bacterial species isolated from deep-water rice in IndiaAnil K Tripathi
School of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1677-80. 2006..On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic characteristics and the results of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the novel species Ochrobactrum oryzae sp. nov. is proposed, with MTCC 4195(T) (=DSM 17471(T)) as the type strain...
Microbial activity in an acid resin deposit: biodegradation potential and ecotoxicology in an extremely acidic hydrocarbon contaminationKarin Kloos
Department of Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Universitatsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
Environ Pollut 144:136-44. 2006..With a simple ecotoxicological approach it could be shown that the pure acid resin that formed the major part of the core deposit, was toxic to the indigenous microflora due to its extremely low pH of 0-1...
Microbial colonization of beech and spruce litter--influence of decomposition site and plant litter species on the diversity of microbial communityManish Kumar Aneja
Institute of Soil Ecology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, PO Box 1129, D-85764, Neuherberg, Germany
Microb Ecol 52:127-35. 2006..The study provides an insight into the bacterial and fungal communities colonizing beech and spruce litter, and the importance of litter quality and decomposition site as key factors in their development and succession...
Genetic and phenotypic microdiversity of Ochrobactrum sppStephan Bathe
Institute of Water Quality Control and Waste Management, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 56:272-80. 2006..The results of genetic and phenotypic analyses indicated a 'rhizosphere effect'; the diversity and metabolic capacity of Ochrobactrum isolates were higher in bulk soil, and the population density was higher on the wheat rhizoplane...
Anatomical and molecular characterization of Lactarius aff. omphaliformis, Russula alnijorullensis and Cortinarius tucumanensis ectomycorrhizae on Alnus acuminataAlejandra Becerra
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal CONICET, Cordoba, Argentina
Mycologia 97:1047-57. 2005..C. tucumanensis ECM exhibit a white (silvery) to yellowish brown mantle covered with soil particles, emanating hyphae with clamps...
Endophytic root colonization of gramineous plants by Herbaspirillum frisingenseMichael Rothballer
Department Microbe Plant Interactions, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health GmbH, Munich, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 66:85-95. 2008..frisingense as a true plant endophyte and, although initial greenhouse experiments did not lead to clear plant growth stimulation, demonstrate the potential of this species for beneficial effects on the growth of crop plants...
