Liesje Mommer

This study examines the trade-off between arbuscular mycorrhiza and root hair traits across multiple scales in grassland plants, finding consistent patterns at community and interspecific levels but not at intraspecific or intra-individual levels.

The paper integrates belowground plant traits to show persistence strategies are a critical dimension of plant function beyond resource acquisition and exploration.

The paper develops RhizoSMASH, a tool to annotate catabolic gene clusters in plant-associated bacteria, revealing niche specialization and predicting rhizosphere competence.

The paper shows that plant species richness and root economics space axes influence soil fungal community composition in a grassland experiment.

The paper investigates how root-knot nematode density and cover crops affect the diversity and activity of nematode antagonists in agricultural soil.