Publications

• Cheng L, A. DiTommaso, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2022. Opportunities for microbiome suppression of weeds using regenerative agricultural technologies. Frontiers in Soil Science. 2:838595. doi: 10.3389/fsoil.2022.838595 
  
  
 
• Parikh, T., S. P. Egendorf, I. Murray, A. Jamali, B. Yee, S. Lin, K. Cooper-Smith, B. Parker, K. Smiley, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2022. Greening the virtual smart city: Accelerating peer-to-peer learning in urban agriculture with virtual reality environments. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 3: 815937. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.815937 
  
  
 
• Gannett, M., N. Bray, J. Lampman, J. Lerner, K. Murray, V. Wallace, T. Yeh, M. Slavens, G.L. Thompson, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2021. Repetitive overseeding for ecological management of grass playing fields. HortScience. 56: 226-233. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI15419-20 
  
  
 
• King, W.L., L.M. Kaminsky, M.Gannett, G.L. Thompson, J. Kao-Kniffin, and T.H. Bell. 2021. Soil salinization accelerates microbiome stabilization in iterative selections for plant performance. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17774 
  
  
 
• Panke-Buisse K., L. Cheng, H. Gan, K. Wickings, M. Petrovic, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2020. Root fungal endophytes and microbial extracellular enzyme activities show patterned responses in tall fescues under drought conditions. Agronomy. 10(8):1076. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081076  
  
  
 
• Howard, M.M., J. Kao-Kniffin, and A. Kessler. 2020. Shifts in plant-microbe interactions over community succession and their effects on plant resistance to herbivores. New Phytologist. 226, no. 4 (2020): 1144-1157 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16430 
  
  
 
• Howard, M.M., C.A. Muñoz, J. Kao-Kniffin, and A. Kessler. 2020. Soil microbiomes from fallow fields have species-specific effects on crop growth and pest resistance. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11: 1171. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.01171 
  
  
 
• Bray, N., Thompson, G.L., Fahey, T., Kao-Kniffin, J., and Wickings, K. 2020. Soil macroinvertebrates alter the fate of root and rhizosphere carbon and nitrogen in a turfgrass lawn. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 148: 107903. DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107903 
  
  
 
• Garcia, J. and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2020. Can dynamic network modelling be used to identify adaptive microbiomes? Functional Ecology. 34: 2065– 2074. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13491 
  
  
 
• Thompson, G.L. and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2019 Urban grassland management implications for soil C and N dynamics: A microbial perspective. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, 7:315. DOI:10.3389/fevo.2019.00315 
  
  
• Bray, N., Kao-Kniffin, J., Frey, S.D., Fahey, T., and K. Wickings. 2019. Soil macroinvertebrate presence alters microbial community composition and activity in the rhizosphere. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10:256. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00256  
  
  
• Kaminsky, L.M., G.L. Thompson, R.V. Trexler, T.H. Bell†*, and J. Kao-Kniffin†. 2019. Medicago sativa has reduced biomass and nodulation when grown with soil microbiomes conditioned to high phosphorous inputs. Phytobiomes, 2:237-248. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-06-18-0025-R  
  
  
• Thompson, G.L., T.H. Bell, J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2018. Rethinking invasion impacts across multiple field sites using pale swallowwort (Vincetoxicum rossicum) as a model invader. Invasive Plant Science and Management. 11:109-116. DOI: 10.1017/inp.2018.22  
  
  
• Chou, M., J. Vanden Heuvel, T.H. Bell, K. Panke-Buisse, J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2018. Under-vine vineyard management alters soil microbial composition, while the fruit microbiome shows no corresponding shifts. Scientific Reports, 8:11039. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29346-1  
  
  
• Garcia, J., and J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2018. Microbial group dynamics in plant rhizospheres and their implications on nutrient cycling. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 1516. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01516
  
  
• Zhang, W., C. Liang, J. Kao-Kniffin, H. He, H. Xie, and X. Zhang. 2017. Effects of wetting and drying cycles on the transformation of extraneous 15N to soil microbial residues. Scientific Reports, 7 Article number: 9477. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09944-1
  
 
• Howard, M., T. Bell, and J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2017. Soil microbiome transfer method affects microbiome composition, including dominant microorganisms, in a novel environment. FEMS Microbiology Letters, Jun 15;364(11). DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx092
  
 
• Bai, Z., H. Xie, J. Kao-Kniffin, B. Chen, P. Shao, and C. Liang. 2017. Shifts in microbial trophic strategy explain different temperature sensitivity of CO2 flux under constant and diurnally-varying temperature regimes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93 (5) DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix063
  
 
• Thompson, G. and J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2017. Applying biodiversity and ecosystem function theory to turfgrass management. Crop Science. 57:1-11. DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2016.05.0433
  
 
• Mueller, C. W., C. Hoeschen, M. Steffens, H. Buddenbaum, K. Hinkel, J. Bockheim, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2017. Microscale soil structures foster organic matter stabilization in permafrost soils. Geoderma 293: 44-53. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.01.028
  
  
• Panke-Buisse, K., S. Lee, and J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2016. Cultivated sub-populations of microbiomes retain early flowering plant trait. Microbial Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s00248-016-0846-1
  
  
• Liang, Chao, Kao-Kniffin, J., Sanford, G., Wickings, K., Balser, T., and Jackson, R. 2016. Microorganisms and their residues under restored perennial grassland communities of varying diversity. Soil Biology & Biochemistry DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.08.002
  
  
• Thompson, G. and J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2016. Diversity enhances NPP, N retention, and soil microbial diversity in experimental urban grassland assemblages. PLOS One DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155986
  
  
• Carver, S., Nikulin, N. and J. Kao-Kniffin*. 2016. Uncovering plant growth-mediating allelochemicals produced by soil microorganisms. Weed Science 64:119-128 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1614/WS-D-15-00095.1
  
  
• *Kao-Kniffin, J., B. Woodcroft, S. Carver, J. Handelsman, G. Tyson, J. Bockheim, K. Hinkel, and C.W. Mueller. 2015. Archaeal and bacterial communities across a chronosequence of drained lake basins in Arctic Alaska. Scientific Reports 5:18165 DOI: 10.1038/srep18165
  
  
• Zhang, W., C. Liang, J. Kao-Kniffin, H. He, H. Xie, H. Zhang, and X. Zhang. 2015. Differentiating the mineralization dynamics of the originally present and newly synthesized amino acids in soil amended with available carbon and nitrogen substrates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 85, 162-169. DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.03.004
  
  
• Mueller, C.W., J. Rethemeyer, J. Kao-Kniffin, S. Loeppmann, K. Hinkel, J. Bockheim. 2015. Large amounts of labile organic carbon in permafrost soils of Northern Alaska. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12876
  
  
• Panke-Buisse, K., A. Poole, J. Goodrich, R. Ley, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2014. Selection on soil microbiomes reveals reproducible impacts on plant function. The ISME Journal. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.196
  
  
• Zhu, B., K. Panke-Buisse, and J. Kao-Kniffin. 2014. Nitrogen fertilization has minimal influence on rhizosphere effects of smooth crabgrass (Digitaria ischaemum) and bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon). Journal of Plant Ecology. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtu034
  
  
• Kao-Kniffin, J., S.M. Carver, and A. DiTommaso. 2013. Advancing weed management strategies using metagenomic techniques. Weed Science 61:171-184. DOI: 10.1614/WS-D-12-00114.1
  
  
• Kao-Kniffin, J. and B, Zhu. 2013. A microbial link between elevated CO2 and methane emissions that is plant species-specific. Microbial Ecology: In press. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0254-8
  
  
• Kao-Kniffin, J. 2012. Rhizosphere Ecology. McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 11th Edition.
  
  
• Kao- Kniffin, J., D. Freyre, and T.C. Balser. 2011. Increased methane emissions from an invasive wetland plant under elevated carbon dioxide levels. Applied Soil Ecology 48:309-312. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2011.04.008
  
  
• Kao-Kniffin, J. and T.C. Balser. 2010. Soil microbial composition and nitrogen cycling in a disturbed wet prairie restoration (Wisconsin). Ecological Restoration 28:20-22; DOI:10.3368/er.28.1.20
  
  
• Kao-Kniffin, J., D. Freyre, and T.C. Balser. 2010. Methane dynamics across wetland plant species. Aquatic Botany 93:107-113 DOI:10.1016/j.aquabot.2010.03.009
  
  
• Kao-Kniffin, J. and T.C. Balser. 2008. Soil fertility and the impact of exotic invasion on microbial communities in Hawaiian forests. Microbial Ecology 56:55-63. DOI 10.1007/s00248-007-9323-1
  
  
• Kao- Kniffin, J. and T.C. Balser. 2007. Elevated CO2 differentially alters belowground plant and soil microbial community structure in reed canary grass-invaded experimental wetlands. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39:517-525. DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.08.024
  
  
• Kao, J.T., J.E. Titus, and W. Zhu. 2003. Differential nitrogen and phosphorus retention by five wetland plant species. Wetlands 23:979-987. DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2003)023[0979:DNAPRB]2.0.CO;2