2009

Hallett PD, Feeney DS, Bengough AG, Rillig MC, Scrimgeour CM, Young IM. 2009. Disentangling the impact of AM fungi versus roots on soil structure and water transport. Plant and Soil 314: 183-196. pdf and Link

Chaudhary VB, Bowker MA, O'Dell TE, Grace JB, Redman AE, Rillig MC, Johnson NC. 200X. Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semi-arid shrublands. Ecological Applications (in press)

Antunes PM, Koch AM, Dunfield KE, Hart MM, Downing A, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN. 200X. Influence of commercial inoculation with Glomus intraradices on the structure and functioning of an AM fungal community from an agricultural site. Plant and Soil (in press) Link

 

2008

Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2008. Evaluation of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) to rapidly detect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 540-543. pdf

Piotrowski JS, Morford S, Rillig MC. 2008. Inhibition of colonization of a native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community via Populus trichocarpa litter, litter extract, and soluble phenolic compounds. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 709-717. pdf

Purin S, Rillig MC. 2008. Parasitism of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: reviewing the evidence. FEMS Microbiology Letters 279: 8-14. pdf

Purin S, Rillig MC. 2008. Immuno-cytolocalization of glomalin in the mycelium of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 1000-1003. pdf

Piotrowski JS, Rillig MC. 2008. Succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: patterns, causes and considerations for organic agriculture. Advances in Agronomy 97: 111-130. Link

Piotrowski JS, Lekberg Y, Harner MJ, Ramsey PW, Rillig MC. 2008. Dynamics of mycorrhizae during development of riparian forests along an unregulated river. Ecography 31: 245-253. pdf of accepted manuscript

Mummey DL, Rillig MC. 2008. Spatial characterization of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal molecular diversity at the sub-metre scale in a temperate grassland. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 64: 260-270. pdf of accepted manuscript

Rosier CL, Piotrowski JS, Hoye AT, Rillig MC. 2008. Intraradical protein and glomalin as a tool for quantifying arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal root colonization. Pedobiologia 52: 41-50. Link

Rillig MC, Ramsey PW, Gannon JE, Mummey DL, Gadkar V, Kapulnik Y. 2008. Suitability of mycorrhiza-defective mutant/ wildtype plant pairs (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv Micro-Tom) to address questions in mycorrhizal soil ecology. Plant and Soil 308: 267-275. Link  pdf of accepted manuscript

Cornejo P, Meier S, Borie G, Rillig MC, Borie F. 2008. Glomalin-related soil protein in a Mediterranean ecosystem affected by a copper smelter and its contribution to Cu and Zn sequestration. Science of the Total Environment 406: 154-160. Link   


2007

Preger AC, Rillig MC, Johns AR, Du Preez CC, Lobe I, Amelung W. 2007. Losses of glomalin-related soil protein under prolonged arable cropping: a chronosequence study in sandy soils of the South African Highveld. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39: 445-453. pdf

Wolfe BE, Rillig MC, Mummey DL, Klironomos JN. 2007. Small-scale spatial heterogeneity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a calcareous fen. Mycorrhiza 17: 175-183. pdf

Rillig MC, Caldwell BA, Wösten HAB, Sollins P. 2007. Role of proteins in soil carbon and nitrogen storage: controls on persistence. Biogeochemistry 85: 25-44. pdf

Purin S, Rillig MC. 2007. The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal protein glomalin: limitations, progress, and a new hypothesis for its function. Pedobiologia 51: 123-130. pdf

Mummey DL,  Rillig MC.  2007. Evaluation of LSU rRNA-gene PCR primers for the study of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities via terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Journal of Microbiological Methods 70: 200-204 pdf

Kimball BA, Idso SB, Johnson S, Rillig MC. 2007. Seventeen years of CO2 enrichment of sour orange trees: final results. Global Change Biology 13: 2171-2183. pdf

Warnock DD, Lehmann J, Kuyper TW, Rillig MC. 2007. Mycorrhizal responses to biochar in soil - concepts and mechanisms. Plant and Soil 300: 9-20. (Marschner Review) Free access

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2006

Mummey DL, Six J, Rillig MC.  2006. Influence of endogeic earthworm activities on bacterial communities associated with different soil aggregate size fractions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 1608-1614. pdf

Rillig MC, Mummey DL, Ramsey PW, Klironomos JN, Gannon JE. 2006. Phylogeny of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi predicts community composition of symbiosis-associated bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 57: 389-395. pdf

Rosier CL, Hoye AT, Rillig MC. 2006. Glomalin-related soil protein: assessment of current detection and quantification tools. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 2205-2211. pdf

Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Feris KP, Holben WE, Gannon JE. 2006. Choice of methods for soil microbial community analysis: PLFA maximizes power compared to CLPP and PCR-based approaches. Pedobiologia 50: 275-280. pdf

Rillig MC, Mummey DL. 2006. (Tansley review) Mycorrhizas and soil structure. New Phytologist 171: 41-53. pdf

Gadkar V, Driver JD, Rillig MC. 2006. A novel in vitro cultivation system to produce and isolate soluble factors released from hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Biotechnology Letters 28: 1071-1076. pdf

Rillig MC, Hoye AT, Carran A. 2006. Minimal direct contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to DOC leaching in grassland through losses of glomalin-related soil protein. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38: 2967-2970. pdf

Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2006. The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal protein glomalin is a putative homolog of heat shock protein 60. FEMS Microbiology Letters 263: 93-101. pdf and Supplementary material

Mummey DL, Rillig MC. 2006. The invasive plant species Centaurea maculosa alters arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in the field. Plant and Soil 288: 81-90. pdf

Not peer-reviewed:

Rillig MC. 2006. Climate change effects on fungi in agroecosystems. In: Newton PCD et al. (Eds.), Agroecosystems in a changing climate. CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, pp. 211-230.

 

2005

Driver JD, Holben WE, Rillig MC. 2005. Characterization of glomalin as a hyphal wall component of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 101-106. pdf

Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2005. Application of Phi29 DNA polymerase mediated whole genome amplification to single spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. FEMS Microbiology Letters 242: 65-71. pdf

Mummey DL, Rillig MC, Holben WE. 2005. Neighboring plant influences on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition as assessed by T-RFLP analysis. Plant and Soil 271: 83-90. pdf

Rillig MC, Lutgen ER, Ramsey PW, Klironomos JN, Gannon JE. 2005. Microbiota accompanying different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal isolates influence soil aggregation. Pedobiologia 49: 251-259. pdf

Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Feris KP, Moore JN, Gannon JE. 2005. Mine waste contamination limits soil respiration rates: a case study using quantile regression. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 1177-1183. pdf

Klironomos JN, Allen MF, Rillig MC, Piotrowski JS, Makvandi-Nejad S,  Wolfe BE, Powell JR. 2005. Abrupt rise in atmospheric CO2 overestimates community response in a model plant-soil system. Nature 433: 621-624. pdf

Gadkar V, Rillig MC. 2005. Suitability of genomic DNA synthesized by strand displacement amplification (SDA) for AFLP analysis: genotyping single spores of arbuscular (AM) mycorrhizal fungi. Journal of Microbiological Methods 63: 157-164. pdf

Batten KM, Six J, Scow KM, Rillig MC. 2005. Plant invasion of native grassland on serpentine soils has no major effect upon selected physical and biological properties. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37: 2277-2282. pdf

Rillig MC. 2005. A connection between fungal hydrophobins and soil water repellency. Pedobiologia 49: 395-399. pdf

Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Feris KP, Gordon N, Moore JN, Holben WE, Gannon JE. 2005. Relationship between communities and processes: new insights from a field study of a contaminated ecosystem. Ecology Letters 8: 1201-1210. pdf

Not peer-reviewed:

Rillig MC, Rosier CL, Piotrowski JS, Gadkar V, Driver JD. 2005. Glomalin: a novel proteinaceous substance produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In: Varma A, Podila GK (Eds), Biotechnological applications of microbes. IK International Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 67-85.

Rillig MC. 2005. Polymers and microorganisms. In: Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment (Ed. Hillel D). Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, UK, pp.287-294.

 

2004

Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Rillig MC, Moore JN, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2004. Determining rates of change and evaluating group-level resiliency differences in hyporheic microbial communities in response to fluvial heavy-metal deposition. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 70: 4756-4765.

Lutgen ER, Rillig MC. 2004. Influence of spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) management treatments on arbuscular mycorrhizae and soil aggregation. Weed Science 52: 172-177. pdf

Rillig MC. 2004. Arbuscular mycorrhizae, glomalin and soil quality. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 84: 355-363. pdf

Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Frazar CF, Rillig MC, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2004. Seasonal dynamics of shallow hyporheic zone microbial community structure along a heavy metal contamination gradient. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2323-2331.

Rillig MC. 2004. Arbuscular mycorrhizae and terrestrial ecosystem processes. Ecology Letters 7: 740-754. pdf

Piotrowski JS,  Denich T, Klironomos JN, Graham JM, Rillig MC. 2004. The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizae on soil aggregation depend on the interaction between plant and fungal species. New Phytologist 164: 365-373. pdf

Harner MJ, Ramsey PW, Rillig MC. 2004. Protein accumulation and distribution in floodplain soils and river foam. Ecology Letters 7: 829-836. pdf

 

2003

Lutgen ER, Clairmont DL, Graham J, Rillig MC. 2003. Seasonality of arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphae and glomalin in a western Montana grassland. Plant and Soil 257: 71-83. pdf

Rillig MC, Maestre FT, Lamit LJ. 2003. Microsite differences in fungal hyphal length, glomalin, and soil aggregate stability in semiarid Mediterranean steppes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 35: 1257-1260. pdf

Knorr MA, Boerner REJ, Rillig MC. 2003. Glomalin content of forest soils in relation to fire frequency and landscape position. Mycorrhiza 13: 205-210. pdf

Rillig MC, Field CB. 2003. Arbuscular mycorrhizae respond to plants exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 as a function of soil depth. Plant and Soil 254: 383-391. pdf

Feris KP, Ramsey PW, Frazar CF, Rillig MC, Gannon JE, Holben WE. 2003. Structure and seasonal dynamics of hyporheic zone microbial communities in free-stone rivers of the western United States. Microbial Ecology 46: 200-215.

Rillig MC, Ramsey PW, Morris S, Paul EA. 2003. Glomalin, an arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungal soil protein, responds to land-use change. Plant and Soil 253: 293-299. pdf

Steinberg PD, Rillig MC.  2003. Differential decomposition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae and glomalin. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 35: 191-194. pdf

 

2002

Rillig MC, Steinberg PD. 2002. Glomalin production by an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus: a mechanism of habitat modification. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 34: 1371-1374. pdf

Rillig MC, Wright SF, Eviner V. 2002. The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin in soil aggregation: comparing effects of five plant species. Plant and Soil 238: 325-333. pdf

Rillig MC, Wright SF, Shaw MR, Field CB. 2002. Artificial ecosystem warming positively affects arbuscular mycorrhizae but decreases soil aggregation. Oikos 97: 52-58. pdf

Rillig MC, Treseder KK, Allen MF. 2002. Mycorrhizal fungi and global change. In: Ecological Studies Series 157: Mycorrhizal Ecology, Springer Verlag, pp. 135-160.

 

2000-2001

Rillig MC, Wright SF, Nichols KA, Schmidt WF, Torn M.S. 2001. Large contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil carbon pools in tropical forest soils. Plant and Soil 233: 167-177. pdf

Rillig MC, Wright SF, Kimball BA, Leavitt SW. 2001. Elevated carbon dioxide and irrigation effects on water stable aggregates in a Sorghum field: a possible role for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Global Change Biology 7: 333-337. pdf

Rillig MC, Hernandez GY, Newton PCD. 2000. Arbuscular mycorrhizae respond to elevated atmospheric CO2 after long-term exposure: evidence from a CO2 spring in New Zealand supports the resource-balance model. Ecology Letters 3: 475-478. pdf

 

1999

Rillig MC, Wright SF, Allen MF, and Field C.B. 1999. Rise in carbon dioxide changes soil structure. Nature 400: 628. pdf

Rillig MC, Allen MF, and Field CB. 1999. Soil biota responses to long-term atmospheric CO2 enrichment in two California annual grasslands. Oecologia 119: 572-577. pdf

Rillig MC and Allen MF. 1999. What is the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant-to-ecosystem responses to elevated atmospheric CO2? Mycorrhiza 9: 1-8. pdf

Rillig MC, Field CB, Allen MF. 1999. Fungal root colonization responses in natural grasslands after long-term exposure to elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 5: 577-585. pdf

Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Allen MF. 1999. Designing belowground field experiments with the help of semi-variance and power analyses. Applied Soil Ecology 12: 227-238.
 

1998

Rillig MC and Allen MF. 1998. Arbuscular mycorrhizae of Gutierrrezia sarothrae and elevated carbon dioxide: evidence for shifts in C allocation to and within the mycobiont. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 30: 2001-2008.

Rillig MC, Allen MF, Klironomos JN, Chiariello NR, and Field CB. 1998. Plant species-specific changes in root-inhabiting fungi in a California annual grassland: responses to elevated CO2 and nutrients. Oecologia 113: 252-259. pdf

Rillig MC, Allen MF, Klironomos JN, and Field CB. 1998. Arbuscular mycorrhizal percent root infection and infection intensity of Bromus hordeaceus grown in elevated atmospheric CO2. Mycologia 90: 199-205.

Klironomos JN, Ursic M, Rillig MC, and Allen MF. 1998. Inter-specific differences in the response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to elevated atmospheric CO2. New Phytologist 138: 599-603.

 

1996-1997

Rillig MC. 1997. Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California Davis/ San Diego State University.

Rillig MC, Scow KM, Klironomos JN, and Allen MF. 1997. Microbial carbon substrate utilization in the rhizosphere of Gutierrezia sarothrae grown in elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 29: 1387-1394.

Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, and Allen MF. 1996. Below-ground microbial and microfaunal responses to Artemisia tridentata grown under elevated atmospheric CO2. Functional Ecology 10: 527-534.

Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Allen MF, Zak DR, Kubiske M, and Pregitzer KS. 1997. Soil fungal-arthropod responses to Populus tremuloides grown under enriched atmospheric CO2 under field conditions. Global Change Biology 3: 473-478.

Klironomos JN, Rillig MC, Allen MF, Zak DR, Pregitzer KS, and Kubiske ME. 1997. Increased levels of airborne fungal spores in response to Populus tremuloides grown under elevated atmospheric CO2. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 1670-1673.