Foreword

Section 1. Signalling and recognition in the root environment

Analysis of N-acy1 homoserine-lactone quorum-sensing molecules made by different strains and biovars of Rhizobium leguminosarum containing different symbiotic plasmids

J.K. Lithgow

V.E. Danino

J. Jones

J.A. Downie

Signalling between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: identification of a gene expressed during early interactions by differential RNA display analysis

H. Roussel

D. van Tuinen

P. Franken

S. Gianinazzi

V. Gianinazzi-Pearson

Methods for studying the nematophagous fungus Verticillium chlamydosporium in the root environment

P.R. Hirsch

S.D. Atkins

T.H. Mauchline

C.O. Morton

K.G. Davies

B.R. Kerry

Does allelopathy offer real promise for practical weed management and for explaining rhizosphere interactions involving higher plants?

M.A. Birkett

K. Chamberlain

A.M. Hooper

J.A. Pickett

Section 2. Root structure and function

Root proliferation, nitrate inflow and their carbon costs during nitrogen capture by competing plants in patchy soil

D. Robinson

The nutritonal control of root development

B. Forde

H. Lorenzo

Effect of phosphorus availability on basal root shallowness in common bean

H. Liao

G. Rubio

X. Yan

A. Cao

K.M. Brown

J.P. Lynch

A comparison of structure, development and function in cluster roots of Lupinus albus L. under phosphate and iron stress

J. Hagstrom

W.M. James

K.R. Skene

Section 3. Biologically-mediated processes in the root environment

Rhizosphere carbon flow measurement and implications: from isotopes to reporter genes

K. Killham

C. Yeomans

Soil and rhizosphere as habitats for Pseudomonas inoculants: new knowledge on distribution, activity and physiological state derived from micro-scale and single-cell studies

J. Sørensen

L.E. Jensen

O. Nybroe

Sulphur and phosphorus transport systems in plants

F.W. Smith

Incorporating rhizosphere processes into field-scale (agro)ecosystem models

J. Arah

Plant-mediated processes to acquire nutrients: nitrogen uptake by rice plants

G.J.D. Kirk

Section 4. Biodiversity in the root environment

Plants and fertilisers as drivers of change in microbial community structure and function in soils

A.G. O'Donnell

M. Seasman

A. Macrae

I. Waite

J.T. Davies

Soil fungi: diversity and detection

P. Bridge

B. Spooner

On the relationships between nematodes, mycorrhizal fungi and plants: functional composition of species and plant performance

L. Brussaard

T.W. Kuyper

R.G.M. de Goede

Bacterial diversity of the rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays) grown in tropical soil studied by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis

N.C.M. Gomes

H. Heuer

J. Schonfeld

R. Costa

L. Mendonca-Hagler

K. Smalla

Monitoring temporal and spatial variation in rhizosphere bacterial population diversity: A community approach for the improved selection of rhizosphere competent bacteria

V.J. Goddard

M.J. Bailey

P. Darrah

A.K. Lilley

I.P. Thompson

Section 5. Exploitation of rhizosphere interactions

Enhancing the biocontrol efficacy of Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 by altering the regulation and production of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol

I.R. Delany

U.F. Walsh

I. Ross

A.M. Fenton

D.M. Corkery

F. O'Gara

Plant and rhizosphere processes involved in phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soils

S.P. McGrath

F.J. Zhao

E. Lombi

An integrated approach for the evaluation of biological control of the complex Polymyxa betae/Beet Necrotic Yellow Vein Virus, by means of seed inoculants

R. Resca

M. Basaglia

S. Poggiolini

P. Vian

S. Bardin

U.F. Walsh

C.M. Enriquez Barreiros

F. O'Gara

M.P. Nuti

S. Casella

U. Peruch