Michael Rothballer

TL;DR: It is concluded that a HF diet markedly affects the gut bacterial ecosystem at the functional level.

TL;DR: Lorenz Hiltner is recognized as the first scientist to coin the term “rhizosphere” in 1904 and his ideas and contributions are as fresh as they were more than 100 years ago.

TL;DR: It is argued that these conflicting concepts can be unified by a new hypothesis, efficiency sensing, and that some of the problems associated with signalling in complex environments, as well as the problem of maintaining honesty in signalling, can be avoided when the signalling cells grow in microcolonies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors detected an intimate association between Piriformospora indica and Rhizobium radiobacter, an α-Proteobacterium, using quantitative PCR, denaturating gradient gel electrophoresis and fluorescence in situ hybridization.

TL;DR: It is now generally accepted, that plant performance and activities can only be characterized and understood completely, if the “holobiont,” the plant plus theimately associated microbiota, is understood completely.