Subject: [SANET-MG] Protozoa and plant growth: the microbial loop in soil revisited | New Phytologist

From: Steve Diver <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:54:37 -0500

Here is a new article in the prestigious Tansley Reviews series, from
New Phytologist, on protozoa and plant growth... to add to your
soil biota / soil foodweb toolbox.

Regards,

Steve Diver

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Protozoa and plant growth: the microbial loop in soil revisited

A Tansley Review

New Phytologist
Volume 162 Issue 3 Page 617 - June 2004

Michael Bonkowski

Rhizosphere Ecology Group, Institut für Zoologie, Technische Universität
Darmstadt,
Darmstadt, Germany

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01066.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01066.x/abs

Summary

I. The rhizosphere   interface of microbial and faunal interactions

II. Microfauna and plant growth

III. Victims and benefactors: how grazers affect bacterial community
composition

IV. Nonmotile plants with flexible strategies

V. Case study: root foraging and microfaunal activity

VI. Friend or foe? Microbial signals and the manipulation of root
architecture

VII. Carbon is the currency: microfauna interactions with mycorrhiza

VIII. The plant bridging above- and below-ground processes

IX. From microscale to macroscale: interactions at the plant community level

X. Conclusions and future research

Acknowledgements

References

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