Publications of Werner Liesack

He, Zhibin, Hou, Yarong, Li, Ying, Bei, Qicheng, Li, Xin, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Liesack, Werner, Rillig, Matthias C. and Peng, Jingjing: (2025) Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics (vol 12, 259, 2024), Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 13 (1).

He, Zhibin, Hou, Yarong, Li, Ying, Bei, Qicheng, Li, Xin, Zhu, Yong‑Guan, Liesack, Werner, Rillig, Matthias C. and Peng, Jingjing: (2025) Correction: Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics, Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 13 (1).

Wu, Xingjie, Peng, Jingjing, Malik, Ashish Anil, Peng, Ziheng, Luo, Yu, Fan, Fenliang, Lu, Yahai, Wei, Gehong, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Liesack, Werner and Jiao, Shuo: (2025) A global relationship between genome size and encoded carbon metabolic strategies of soil bacteria, Ecology Letters, Oxford, UK, Blackwell Science, 28 (1).

He, Zhibin, Hou, Yarong, Li, Ying, Bei, Qicheng, Li, Xin, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Liesack, Werner, Rillig, Matthias C. and Peng, Jingjing: (2024) Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics, Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 12 (1).

Xue, Shudan, Yi, Xingyun, Peng, Jingjing, Bak, Frederik, Zhang, Limei, Duan, Guilan, Liesack, Werner and Zhu, Yongguan: (2024) Fulvic acid enhances nitrogen fixation and retention in paddy soils through microbial-coupled carbon and nitrogen cycling, Environmental Science & Technology, Easton, PA, American Chemical Society, 58 (42), pp. 18777–18787.

Brenzinger, Kristof, Glatter, Timo, Hakobyan, Anna, Meima-Franke, Marion, Zweers, Hans, Liesack, Werner and Bodelier, Paul L E: (2024) Exploring modes of microbial interactions with implications for methane cycling, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Amsterdam, Oxford University Press, 100 (9).

Abdallah , Rehab Z., Elbehery , Ali H. A., Ahmed, Shimaa F., Ouf, Amged, Malash , Mohamed N., Liesack, Werner and Siam, Rania: (2024) Deciphering the functional and structural complexity of the Solar Lake flat mat microbial benthic communities, mSystems, American Society for Microbiology, 9, May.

Li, Xin, Bei, Qicheng, Rabiei Nematabad, Mehrdad, Peng, Jingjing and Liesack, Werner: (2024) Time-shifted expression of acetoclastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis by a single Methanosarcina genomospecies predominates the methanogen dynamics in Philippine rice field soil, Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 12, February.

Guo, Kangli, Glatter, Timo, Paczia, Nicole and Liesack, Werner: (2023) Asparagine uptake: a cellular strategy of Methylocystis to combat severe salt stress, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 89 (6).

Peng, Jingjing, Zhou, Xi, Rensing, Christopher, Liesack, Werner and Zhu, Yong-Guan: (2023) Soil microbial ecology through the lens of metatranscriptomics, Soil Ecology Letters, Higher Education Press, co-published with Springer, 6 (3).

Wu, Xingjie, Bei, Shuikuan, Zhou, Xi, Luo, Yu, He, Zhibin, Song, Chunxu, Yuan, Huimin, Pivato, Barbara, Liesack, Werner and Peng, Jingjing: (2023) Metagenomic insights into genetic factors driving bacterial niche differentiation between bulk and rhizosphere soils, Science of the Total Environment, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 891.

Guo, K., Hakobyan, A., Glatter, T., Paczia, Nicole and Liesack, W.: (2022) Methylocystis sp. strain SC2 acclimatizes to increasing NH₄⁺ levels by a precise rebalancing of enzymes and osmolyte composition, mSystems, American Society for Microbiology, 7 (5).

Wu, X., Rensing, C., Han, D., Xiao, K. Q., Dai, Y., Tang, Z., Liesack, W., Peng, J., Cui, Z. and Zhang, F.: (2022) Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals distinct phosphorus acquisition strategies between soil microbiomes, mSystems, American Society for Microbiology, 7 (1).

Wu, Xingjie, Cui, Zhenling, Peng, Jingjing, Zhang, Fusuo and Liesack, Werner: (2022) Genome-resolved metagenomics identifies the particular genetic traits of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in agricultural soil, ISME Communications, Springer Nature, 2 (1).

Wu, Xingjie, Liu, Ye, Shang, Yiwei, Liu, Duo, Liesack, Werner, Cui, Zhenling, Peng, Jingjing and Zhang, Fusuo: (2022) Peat-vermiculite alters microbiota composition towards increased soil fertility and crop productivity, Plant and Soil, Dordrecht, etc., Kluwer Academic Publishers [etc.], 470, pp. 21–34.

Bei, Qicheng, Moser, Gerald, Muller, Christoph and Liesack, Werner: (2021) Seasonality affects function and complexity but not diversity of the rhizosphere microbiome in European temperate grassland., Science of the Total Environment, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 784.

Bei, Qicheng, Peng, Jingjing and Liesack, Werner: (2021) Shedding light on the functional role of the Ignavibacteria in Italian rice field soil: A meta-genomic/transcriptomic analysis, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Amsterdam [u.a.], Elsevier, 163.

Wu, Xingjie, Liu, Pengfei, Wegner, Carl-Eric, Luo, Yu, Xiao, Ke-Qing, Cui, Zhenling, Zhang, Fusuo, Liesack, Werner and Peng, Jingjing: (2021) Deciphering microbial mechanisms underlying soil organic carbon storage in a wheat-maize rotation system, Science of the Total Environment, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 788.

Wu, Xingjie, Peng, Jingjing, Liu, Pengfei, Bei, Qicheng, Rensing, Christopher, Li, Yong, Yuan, Huimin, Liesack, Werner, Zhang, Fusuo and Cui, Zhenling: (2021) Metagenomic insights into nitrogen and phosphorus cycling at the soil aggregate scale driven by organic material amendments., Science of the Total Environment, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 785.

Hakobyan, Anna and Liesack, Werner: (2020) Unexpected metabolic versatility among type II methanotrophs in the Alphaproteobacteria, BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 401 (12), pp. 1469–1477.