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Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by Quantitative-PCR (2020)
Book Chapter
Blaud, A., Maïder, A., & Clark, I. M. (2021). Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by Quantitative-PCR. In L. C. Carvalhais, & P. G. Dennis (Eds.), The Plant Microbiome: Methods and Protocols (135-146). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1040-4_12

Quantitative-PCR (qPCR) enables the quantification of specific DNA targets, such as functional or phylogenetic marker genes associated with environmental samples. During each qPCR cycle, the number of copies of a gene (or region) of interest in DNA s... Read More about Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by Quantitative-PCR.

Edaphic factors and plants influence denitrification in soils from a long-term arable experiment (2020)
Journal Article
Clark, I. M., Fu, Q., Abadie, M., Dixon, E. R., Blaud, A., & Hirsch, P. R. (2020). Edaphic factors and plants influence denitrification in soils from a long-term arable experiment. Scientific Reports, 10, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72679-z

Factors influencing production of greenhouse gases nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen (N2) in arable soils include high nitrate, moisture and plants; we investigate how differences in the soil microbiome due to antecedent soil treatment additionally in... Read More about Edaphic factors and plants influence denitrification in soils from a long-term arable experiment.

Monitoring soil microbial communities using molecular tools: DNA extraction methods may offset long-term management effects (2020)
Journal Article
Changey, F., Blaud, A., Pando, A., Herrmann, A. M., & Lerch, T. Z. (2021). Monitoring soil microbial communities using molecular tools: DNA extraction methods may offset long-term management effects. European Journal of Soil Science, 72(2), 1026-1041. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13026

Despite recent technological advances in molecular ecology, DNA extraction from soil remains a crucial step when quantifying and characterizing soil microbial communities. Potential biases could hamper fundamental understanding of the dynamic relatio... Read More about Monitoring soil microbial communities using molecular tools: DNA extraction methods may offset long-term management effects.

Pore system characteristics of soil aggregates and their relevance to aggregate stability (2020)
Journal Article
Menon, M., Mawodza, T., Rabbani, A., Blaud, A., Lair, G. J., Babaei, M., …Banwart, S. (2020). Pore system characteristics of soil aggregates and their relevance to aggregate stability. Geoderma, 366, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114259

Aggregates are the structural units of soils, and the physical stability is considered to be a keystone parameter of soil quality. However, little is known about the evolution of the pore system in aggregates and its importance in defining aggregate... Read More about Pore system characteristics of soil aggregates and their relevance to aggregate stability.