2024
Abdulai I, Hoffmann M, Kahiluoto H, Dippold MA, Ahmed MA, Asare R, Asante W, Rötter RP (2024) Functional groups of leaf phenology are key to build climate-resilience in cocoa agroforestry systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Abdalla M, Carminati A, Cai G and Ahmed MA (2024) Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale. Annals of Botany
Sauer AM, Loftus S, Schneider EM, Sudhabindu K, Hajjarpoor A, Sivasakthi K, Kholová J, Dippold MA, Ahmed MA (2024) Sorghum landraces perform better than a commonly used cultivar under terminal drought, especially on sandy soil. Plant Stress
Köhler T, Botezatu A, Murugesan T, Kaliamoorthy S, Kholová J, Ahmed MA, Carminati A (2024) Effect of soil texture on the transpiration rate sensitivity to rising vapor pressure deficit (VPD). Plant Stress
Niedeggen D, Rüger L, Oburger E, Santangeli M, Ahmed MA, Vetterlein D, Blagodatsky S, Bonkowski M (2024) Microbial utilisation of maize rhizodeposits applied to an agricultural soil at a range of concentrations. European Journal of Soil Science
Duddek P, Papritz A, Ahmed MA, J, Lovric G, Carminati A (2024) Observations of root hair patterning in soils: Insights from synchrotron-based X-ray computed microtomography. Plant and Soil
Yu Peng, Li C, Li M, He X, Wang D, Li H, Marcon C, Tegethof H, Klaus A, Perez-Limón S, Chen X, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Koller R, Metzner R, van Dusschoten D, Borisjuk L, Plutenko I, Mahon A, Resende Jr MFR, Salvi S, Akale A, Abdalla M, Ahmed MA, Bauer FM, Schnepf A, Lobet G, Heymans A, Suresh K, Schreiber L, McLaughlin CM, Li C, Mayer M, Schön C-C, Bernau V, von Wirén N, Sawers RJH, Wang T, Hochholdinger F (2024) Root system adaptation to water availability during maize domestication and global expansion. Nature Genetics (doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01761-3), in press.
2023
Abdalla M, Bitterlich M, Jansa J, Püschel D, Ahmed MA (2023) The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in improving plant water status under drought. JXB
Cai G, Carminati A, Glesen S, Javaux M, Ahmed MA (2023) Soil-plant hydraulics explain stomatal efficiency-safety tradeoff. Plant, Cell and Environment
Duddek P, Ahmed MA, Javaux M, Vanderborght J, Lovric G, King A, Carminati A (2023) The effect of root hairs on root water uptake is determined by root-soil contact and root hair shrinkage. New Phytologist
Abdalla M, Schweiger A, Berauer B, McAdam S, Ahmed MA (2023) Constant hydraulic supply and ABA dynamics facilitates the trade-offs in water and carbon. Frontiers in Plant Science.
Affortit P, Ahmed MA, Grondin A, Delzon S, Carminati A, and Laplaze L (2023) Keep in touch: the soil-root hydraulic continuum and its role in drought resistance in crops. Journal of Experimental Botany
Cai G, Wankmüller F, Ahmed MA Carminati A (2023) How the interactions between atmospheric and soil drought affect the functionality of plant hydraulics. Plant, Cell and Environment
Zhang X, Bilyera N, Fan L, Duddek P, Ahmed MA, Carminati A, Kaestner A, Dippold MA, Spielvogel S, Razavi BS (2023) The spatial distribution of rhizosphere microbial activities under drought: water availability is more important than root-hair controlled exudation. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18409
Mganga K, Kuhla J, Carminati A, Pausch J, Ahmed MA (2023) Grasswise: Leaf physiological characteristics, biomass partitioning and whole plant water use efficiencies of two C4 grasses under simulated drought stress. Grassland Research.
Berauer B, Zebene A, Schweiger A, Knott M, Diehl D, Sawers R, Ahmed MA (2023) Differences in mucilage properties and stomatal sensitivity of locally adapted Zea mays in relation with precipitation seasonality and VPD regime of their native environment. Plant Direct
2022
Cai G, Ahmed MA (2022) The role of root hairs in water uptake: recent advances and future perspectives. Journal of Experimental Botany. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac114
Duddek P, Carminati A, Koebernick N, Ohmann L, Lovric G, Delzon S, Rodriguez‐Dominguez CM, King A, Ahmed MA (2022) The impact of drought-induced root and root hair shrinkage on root-soil contact. Plant Physiology. doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac144
Cai G, Tötzke C, Kaestner A and Ahmed MA (2022) Quantification of root water uptake and redistribution using neutron imaging: a review and future directions. The Plant Journal. doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15839
Koehler T, Moser S, Botezatu Á, Murugesan T, Kaliamoorthy S, Zarebanadkouki M, Bienert MD, Bienert GP, Carminati A, Kholova J and Ahmed MA (2022) Going underground: soil hydraulic properties impacting maize responsiveness to water deficit. Plant and Soil. doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05656-2
Cai G, König M, Carminati A, Abdalla M, Javaux M, Wankmüller F, Ahmed MA (2022) Transpiration response to soil drying and vapor pressure deficit is soil texture specific. Plant and Soil.
Cai G, Ahmed MA, Abdalla M, Carminati A (2022) Root hydraulic phenotypes impacting water uptake in drying soils. Plant, Cell and Environment, 45: 650-663.
Abdalla M, Ahmed MA, Cai G, Schwartz N, Litig O, Javaux M, Carminati A (2022) Stomatal closure during water deficit is controlled by belowground hydraulics. Annals of Botany, 129: 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab141
Jorda H, Ahmed MA, Javaux M, Carminati A, Duddek P, Vetterlein D, Vanderborght J (2022) Field scale plant water relation of maize (Zea mays) under drought – impact of root hairs and soil texture. Plant and Soil.
Abdalla M, Ahmed MA, Cai G, Zarebanadkouki M, Carminati A (2022) Coupled effects of soil drying and salinity on soil-plant hydraulics. Plant Physiology. 00: 1–14 https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac229
Köhler T, Schaum C, Tung S, Steiner F, Tyborsk N, Wild AJ, Akale A, Pausch P, Lüders T, Wolfrum S, Müller CW, Vidal A, Vahl W, Groth J, Eder B, Ahmed MA, Carminati A (2022) Above and belowground traits impacting transpiration decline during soil drying in 48 maize ( Zea mays L.) genotypes, Annals of Botany.
Schnepf, A., A. Carminati, Ahmed MA, M. Ani, P. Benard, J. Bentz, M. Bonkowski, M. Brax, D. Diehl, P. Duddek, E. Kröner, M. Javaux, M. Landl, E. Lehndorff, E. Lippold, A. Lieu, C. W. Mueller, E. Oburger, W. Otten, X. Portell, M. Phalempin, A. Prechtel, R. Schulz, J. Vanderborght, and D. Vetterlein (2022) Linking rhizosphere processes across scales: Opinion. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05306-7
Mantova M, Cochard H, Burlett R, Delzon S, King A, Rodriguez-Dominguez C, Ahmed MA, Trueba S, Torres-Ruiz J (2022) On the path from xylem hydraulic failure to downstream cell death. New Phytologist.
Vetterlein D, Phalempin M, Lippold E, Schlüter S, Schreiter S, Ahmed MA, Carminati A, Duddek P, Jorda H, Bienert P, Bienert D, Tarkka M, Ganther M, Oburger E, Santangeli M, Javaux M, Vanderborght J (2022) Root hairs matter at field scale for maize shoot growth and nutrient uptake, but root trait plasticity is primarily triggered by texture and drought. Plant and Soil.
Werner L, Knott M, Diehl D, Ahmed MA, Banfield, C. Dippold, M. Vetterlein, D. Wimmer, M.A. (2022) Does mucilage from aeroponically grown seedlings and brace roots of soil-grown maize differ? Effect of environmental parameters on mucilage physico-chemical properties. Plant and Soil.
2021
Cai G, Carminati A, Abdalla M, Ahmed MA (2021) Soil textures rather than root hairs dominate water uptake and soil-plant hydraulics under drought. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab271
Abdalla M, Carminati A, Cai G, Javaux M, Ahmed MA (2021) Stomatal closure of tomato under drought is driven by an increase in soil-root hydraulic resistance. Plant, Cell and Environment. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pce.13939
Abdalla M and Ahmed MA (2021) Arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis enhances water status and soil-plant hydraulic conductance of tomato under drought. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.722954/full
Bilyera N, Zhang X, Duddek P, Fan L, Banfield CC, Schlüter S, Carminati A, Kaestner A, Ahmed MA, Kuzyakov Y, Dippold MA, Spielvogel S, Razavi BS (2021) Maize genotype-specific strategies to increase β-glucosidase activity in the rhizosphere. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
2020
Nazari M, Riebeling S, Banfield C, Akale A, Mason-Jones K, Dippold MA, Ahmed MA (2020) Mucilage polysaccharide composition and exudation in maize from contrasting climatic regions. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.587610/full
Hayat F, Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Cai G, Javaux M, Carminati A (2020) Transpiration reduction in maize (Zea mays L) in response to soil drying. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01695
Carminati A, Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Cai G, Javaux M (2020) Stomatal closure prevents the drop in soil water potential around roots. New Phytologist, 226: 1541-1543. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16451
Cai G, Ahmed MA, Dippold MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Carminati A (2020) Linear relation between leaf xylem water potential and transpiration in pearl millet during soil drying. Plant and Soil, 447, 565–578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04408-z
Hayat F, Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA, Buecherl T, Carminati A (2020) Quantification of hydraulic redistribution in maize roots using neutron radiography. Vadose Zone Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20084
Cai G, Ahmed MA, Reth S, Reiche M, Kolb A, Carminati A (2020) Measurement of leaf xylem water potential and transpiration during soil drying using a root pressure chamber system. Acta Horticulturae.
Vetterlein D, Lippold E, Schreiter S, Phalempin M, Fahrenkampf T, Hochholdinger F, Marcon C, Tarkka M, Oburger E, Ahmed MA, Javaux M, Schlüter S (2020) Experimental platforms for the investigation of spatiotemporal patterns in the rhizosphere – laboratory and field scale. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202000079
2019
Hayat F, Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Cai G, Carminati A (2019) Measurements and simulation of leaf xylem water potential and root water uptake in heterogeneous soil water contents. Advances in Water Resources, 124: 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.12.009
Naveed M, Ahmed MA, Benard P, Brown LK, George TS, Bengough AG, Roose T, Koebernick N, Hallett P (2019) Surface tension, rheology and hydrophobicity of rhizodeposits and seed mucilage influence soil water retention and hysteresis. Plant and Soil, 437: 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-03939-9
Ellerbrock RH, Ahmed MA, Gerke HH (2019) Spectroscopic characterization of mucilage (Chia seed) and polygalacturonic acid. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182, 888–895.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201800554
2018
Ahmed MA, Passioura, JB, Carminati A (2018) Hydraulic processes in roots and the rhizosphere pertinent to increasing yield of water-limited grain crops: a critical review. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69: 3255–3265. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery183
Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Meunier F, Javaux M, Kaestner A, Carminati A (2018) Root type matters: measurement of water uptake by seminal, crown and lateral roots in maize. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69:1199–1206. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx439
Ahmed MA, Sanaullah M, Blagodatskaya E, Mason-Jones K, Jawad H, Kuzyakov Y, Dippold MA (2018) Soil microorganisms exhibit enzymatic and priming response to root mucilage under drought. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 116, 410-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.041
Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmadi K, Kroener E, Kostka S, Kaestner A, Carminati A (2018) Engineering rhizosphere hydraulics: pathways to improve plant adaptation to drought. Vadose Zone Journal, 17. https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2016.09.0090
Ahmed MA, Banfield CC, Sanaullah M, Gunina A, Dippold MA (2018) Utilisation of mucilage C by microbial communities under drought. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 54: 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-017-1237-6
Meunier F, Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA Carminati A, Couvreur V, Javaux M (2018) Hydraulic conductivity of soil-grown lupine and maize unbranched roots and maize root-shoot junctions. Journal of Plant Physiology, 227: 31-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2017.12.019
Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA, Hedwig C, Benard P, Kostka S, Kaestner A, Carminati A (2018) Rhizosphere hydrophobicity limits root water uptake after drying and subsequent rewetting. Plant and Soil, 428: 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-018-3677-7
Holz M, Leue M, Ahmed MA, Benard P, Gerke H, Carminati A (2018) Spatial distribution of mucilage in the rhizosphere measured with infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00087
Ahmadi K, Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA, Ferrarini F, Kuzyakov Y, Kostka JS, Carminati A (2018) Rhizosphere engineering: Innovative improvement of root environment. Rhizosphere 3:176-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2017.04.015
Kroener E, Holz M, Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA, Carminati A (2018) Effects of mucilage on rhizosphere hydraulic functions depend on soil particle size. Vadose Zone Journal. https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2017.03.0056
Benard P, Zarebanadkouki M, Hedwig C, Holz M, Ahmed MA, A Carminati (2018) Pore-scale distribution of mucilage affecting water repellency in the rhizosphere. Vadose Zone Journal.
https://doi:10.2136/vzj2017.01.0013
2017 and older
Carminati A, Passioura JP, Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA, Ryan PR, Watt M, Delhaize E (2017) Root hairs enable high transpiration rates in drying soils. New Phytologist, 216: 771-781. http://doi:10.1111/nph.14715
Carminati A, Benard P, Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M (2017) Liquid bridges at the root-soil interface. Plant and Soil, 417, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3227-8
Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Kaestner A, Carminati A (2016) Measurements of water uptake of maize roots: the key function of lateral roots. Plant and Soil, 398: 59-77. doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2639-6
Ahmed MA, Kroener E, Benard P, Zarebanadkouki M, Kaestner A, Carminati A (2016) Drying of mucilage causes water repellency in the rhizosphere of maize: measurements and modelling. Plant and Soil, 407:161–171. https://doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2749-1
Carminati A, Kroener E, Ahmed MA, Zarebanadkouki M, Holz M, Ghezzehe T (2016) Water for Carbon, Carbon for Water. Vadose Zone Journal. https://doi:10.2136/vzj2015.04.0060
Carminati A, Zarebanadkouki M, Kroener E, Ahmed MA, Holz M (2016) Biophysical rhizosphere processes affecting root water uptake. Annals of Botany, 118:561–571. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw113
Zarebanadkouki M, Ahmed MA, Carminati A (2016) Hydraulic conductivity of the root-soil interface of lupin in sandy soil after drying and rewetting. Plant and Soil, 398: 267-280. https://doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2668-1
Zickenrott IM, Woche SK, Bachmann J, Ahmed MA, Vetterlein D (2016) An efficient method for the collection of root mucilage from different plant species – A case study on the effect of mucilage on soil water repellency. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil science, 179: 294-302. https://doi:10.1002/jpln.201500511
Ahmed MA, Holz M, Woche SK, Bachmaan J, Carminati A (2015) Effect of soil drying on mucilage exudation and its water repellency: a new method to collect mucilage. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 178: 821-824. doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201500177
Kroener E, Ahmed MA, Carminati A (2015) Roots at the percolation threshold. Physical Review E, 91:042706. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042706
Ahmed MA, Kroener E, Holz M, Zarebanadkouki M, Carminati A (2014) Mucilage exudation facilitates root water uptake in dry soils. Functional Plant Biology, 41:1129-1137. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP13330
Book
Books and Book Chapters (Refereed):
Ahmed MA, Vetterlein D, Carminati A (2021) Advances in understanding plant root water uptake. Peter Gregory (Hrsg.), Understanding and improving crop root function. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science. https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/product/3-190-9781801460019