Melanie Kuffner

TL;DR: The role of plant-associated bacteria to enhance trace element availability in the rhizosphere is reviewed and the kind of bacteria typically found in association with trace element – tolerating or – accumulating plants are reported and discussed to improve trace element uptake by plants and thus the efficiency and rate of phytoextraction.

TL;DR: The 4 °C increase in soil temperature during the snow-free season had no influence on microbial community composition and biomass but strongly increased microbial metabolic activity and hence reduced carbon use efficiency.

TL;DR: The isolates showed resistance to high Zn concentrations, indicating an adaptation to high concentrations of mobile Zn in the rhizosphere of Salix caprea, and other mechanisms than the production of IAA, ACC deaminase and siderophores were involved in the observed plant–microbe interactions.

TL;DR: To characterize bacteria associated with Zn/Cd‐accumulating Salix caprea regarding their potential to support heavy metal phytoextraction.

TL;DR: The highest levels of genes expression and hydrocarbon degradation were seen in loamy soil that had been inoculated with BTRH79 and were significantly higher compared to those in other soils, indicating that catabolic gene expression is necessary for contaminant degradation.