Jennifer Pett‐Ridge

This paper introduces internal DNA standards for DNA-qSIP to enable comparison of results across laboratories and support a global database of microbial growth and nutrient assimilation rates.

The paper shows reduced precipitation increases microbial uptake and processing of rhizodeposit carbon near roots in grasslands, altering carbon cycling without plant stress.

This study shows a soil fungus alters its metabolism to dissolve lithium ore, releasing soluble lithium, and suggests similar strategies may occur in natural microbial communities.

This study examines how fluctuating redox conditions affect microbial communities and carbon cycling in tropical soils, finding that microbial communities adapt to dynamic redox conditions and distinct carbon compounds are cycled under varying redox regimes.

This study uses SIP-viromics to distinguish newly produced from persistent virions in soil, revealing that most virions persist without replication, linked to dominant bacterial groups.

This study examines how soil microbial gene transcription changes during a feast-famine event, showing shifts in metabolic and regulatory pathways over time.

The paper analyzes microbial autotrophy in soils using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data, finding widespread RuBisCO genes and prevalence in deep, saturated soils.

This study examines how drought affects carbon allocation in oil-enhanced sorghum, showing that drought overrides engineered lipid sink effects on root carbon investment and soil carbon delivery.

This study compares microbial community responses to exudates and soil organic matter degradation in shrub and sedge rhizosphere soils using stable isotope probing.

This study tracks viral succession and infection dynamics in soil viral communities after rewetting and phosphorus amendment, showing distinct responses in virion and transcriptionally active viral populations.

This study shows that reduced winter precipitation lowers microbial growth efficiency and shifts soil organic carbon composition in a California grassland.

This study examines how drought affects the formation and persistence of mineral-associated organic matter in grassland soil, finding reduced formation but enhanced persistence of detrital-derived MAOM.

This study shows that transgenic rice genotypes overexpressing PSY genes reduce methane emissions by altering rhizosphere microbial hydrogen cycling through changes in gene activity and metabolic pathways.

This study examines soil viral communities in Mediterranean grasslands, finding that spatial factors dominate over temporal variation in shaping viral community structure.

The paper examines successional changes in the Cladophora microbiome using qSIP and NanoSIMS imaging, revealing shifts in bacterial composition, growth rates, and functional group dynamics.

This study evaluates switchgrass's impact on belowground carbon storage by comparing it to annual crops across multiple sites, finding increased root biomass but uncertain overall SOC effects.

The paper measures microbial growth rates in soil habitats to test if specialists grow faster than generalists, finding specialists do, with fungal responses differing due to life-history strategies.

This study shows phosphate amendment alters RNA virus community composition in soil after rewetting, with 60% of responding viruses belonging to unknown clades and significant impacts on bacterial populations.

The paper links genomic traits like codon bias and genome size to bacterial growth and transcription rates in rewetted soil using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data.

The paper investigates how microbial activity in grassland soils varies with depth and water availability, identifying active predatory bacteria and episymbionts in different soil layers.

This study examines how soil redox conditions influence viral communities and virus-host interactions in tropical rainforest soils, revealing distinct viral populations and their roles in carbon degradation.

This study evaluates the impact of enhanced rock weathering on soil organic matter pools over two years, finding reduced mineral-associated organic matter accrual without net losses of soil organic carbon.

The paper investigates how corrinoid structure affects soil microbial community composition and stability through experimental and genomic analysis.

This study evaluates the impact of switchgrass cultivation on soil carbon and methane consumption in two degraded soils, finding increased carbon and reduced methane consumption in specific soil types.

This study quantifies how switchgrass affects deep soil organic carbon stocks in three marginal soils using natural abundance 14C, finding site-specific increases in subsoil carbon under switchgrass.

This study uses a genome-scale model to analyze metabolic trade-offs in Rhodopseudomonas palustris under anaerobic photoheterotrophic conditions, revealing light limitation and prioritization of carbon efficiency.