Astrid Näther

TL;DR: After accounting for heterogeneity resulting from large scale differences among sampling locations and land-use types, soil properties still explain significant proportions of variation in fungal and soil fauna abundance or diversity, but soil biota was also related to processes that act at larger spatial scales and bacteria or soil yeasts only showed weak relationships to soil properties.

TL;DR: The natural occurrence of Cry proteins and the lack of detectable effects on nurse bees and their gut bacteria give no indication for harmful effects of this Bt maize on nurse honey bees.

TL;DR: Soil microcosms were applied to evaluate the impact of a lower- and higher-level salinization treatment of a pristine scrubland soil on the abundance of Bacteria, Archaea, and Fungi, and on prokaryotic diversity in bare soil and the rhizosphere of wheat assessed by qPCR and high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates environmental variation but also similar patterns of soil microbial diversity in potato rhizospheres and indicates that the cisgenic modification of the potato variety Desirée had no tangible impact on soil microbial communities.