Mutez Ali Ahmed: Publications

Peer reviewed

2021

Abdalla, M., Carminati, A., Cai, G., Javaux, M., Ahmed, M.: Stomatal closure of tomato under drought is driven by an increase in soil–root hydraulic resistance. Plant, Cell & Environment, 44(2), 425-431 (2021).
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005283

2020

Carminati, A., Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Cai, G., Goran, L., Javaux, M.: Stomatal closure prevents the drop in soil water potential around roots. New Phytologist, 226(6), 1541-1543 (2020).
10.1111/nph.16451

Hayat, F., Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Cai, G., Javaux, M., Carminati, A.: Transpiration reduction in maize (Zea mays L) in response to soil drying. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10 (2020).
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01695

Cai, G., Ahmed, M., Dippold, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Carminati, A.: Linear relation between leaf xylem water potential and transpiration in pearl millet during soil drying. Plant and Soil, (2020).
doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04408-z

2019

Hayat, F., Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Cai, G., Carminati, A.: Measurements and simulation of leaf xylem water potential and root water uptake in heterogeneous soil water contents. Advances in Water Resources, 124, 96-105 (2019).
doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.12.009

Naveed, M., Ahmed, M., Benard, P., Brown, L., George, T., Bengough, A., Roose, T., Koebernick, N., Hallett, P.: Surface tension, rheology and hydrophobicity of rhizodeposits and seed mucilage influence soil water retention and hysteresis. Plant and Soil, 437(1/2), 65-81 (2019).
doi:10.1007/s11104-019-03939-9

Ellerbrock, R., Ahmed, M., Gerke, H.: Spectroscopic characterization of mucilage (Chia seed) and polygalacturonic acid. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(6) (2019).
doi:10.1002/jpln.201800554

2018

Holz, M., Leue, M., Ahmed, M., Benard, P., Gerke, H., Carminati, A.: Spatial Distribution of Mucilage in the Rhizosphere Measured With Infrared Spectroscopy. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6, No. 87 (2018).
doi:10.3389/fenvs.2018.00087

Meunier, F., Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Carminati, A., Couvreur, V., Javaux, M.: Hydraulic conductivity of soil-grown lupine and maize unbranched roots and maize root-shoot junctions. Journal of Plant Physiology, 227, 31-44 (2018).
doi:10.1016/j.jplph.2017.12.019

Ahmed, M., Sanaullah, M., Blagodatskaya, E., Mason-Jones, K., Jawad, H., Kuzyakov, Y., Dippold, M.: Soil microorganisms exhibit enzymatic and priming response to root mucilage under drought. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 116, 410-418 (2018).
doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.041

Ahmed, M., Banfield, C., Sanaullah, M., Gunina, A., Dippold, M.: Utilisation of mucilage C by microbial communities under drought. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 54, 83-94 (2018).
doi:10.1007/s00374-017-1237-6

Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Meunier, F., Javaux, M., Kaestner, A., Carminati, A.: Root type matters : measurement of water uptake by seminal, crown and lateral roots in maize. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(5), 1199-1206 (2018).
doi:10.1093/jxb/erx439

Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Hedwig, C., Benard, P., Kostka, S., Anders, K., Carminati, A.: Rhizosphere hydrophobicity limits root water uptake after drying and subsequent rewetting. Plant and Soil, 428(1/2), 265-277 (2018).
doi:10.1007/s11104-018-3677-7

Ahmed, M., Passioura, J., Carminati, A.: Hydraulic processes in roots and the rhizosphere pertinent to increasing yield of water-limited grain crops : a critical review. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(13), 3255-3265 (2018).
doi:10.1093/jxb/ery183

2017

Benard, P., Zarebanadkouki, M., Hedwig, C., Holz, M., Ahmed, M., Carminati, A.: Pore-Scale Distribution of Mucilage Affecting Water Repellency in the Rhizosphere. Vadose Zone Journal, (2017).
doi:10.2136/vzj2017.01.0013

Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmadi, K., Kroener, E., Kostka, S., Kaestner, A., Carminati, A.: Engineering Rhizosphere Hydraulics : Pathways to Improve Plant Adaptation to Drought. Vadose Zone Journal, (2017).
doi:10.2136/vzj2016.09.0090

Carminati, A., Passioura, J., Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Ryan, P., Watt, M., Delhaize, E.: Root hairs enable high transpiration rates in drying soils. New Phytologist, 216(3), 771-781 (2017).
doi:10.1111/nph.14715

Ahmadi, K., Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Ferrarini, A., Kuzyakov, Y., Kostka, S., Carminati, A.: Rhizosphere engineering : innovative improvement of root environment. Rhizosphere, 3(1), 176-184 (2017).
doi:10.1016/j.rhisph.2017.04.015

Carminati, A., Benard, P., Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M.: Liquid bridges at the root-soil interface. Plant and Soil, 417(1/2), 1-15 (2017).
doi:10.1007/s11104-017-3227-8

Kroener, E., Holz, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Carminati, A.: Effects of mucilage on rhizosphere hydraulic functions depend on soil particle size. Vadose Zone Journal, (2017).

2016

Carminati, A., Kroener, E., Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Holz, M., Ghezzehei, T.: Water for Carbon, Carbon for Water. Vadose Zone Journal, 15(2) (2016).
doi:10.2136/vzj2015.04.0060

Ahmed, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Kaestner, A., Carminati, A.: Measurements of water uptake of maize roots : the key function of lateral roots. Plant and Soil, 398(1/2), 59-77 (2016).
doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2639-6

Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Carminati, A.: Hydraulic conductivity of the root-soil interface of lupin in sandy soil after drying and rewetting. Plant and Soil, 398(1/2), 267-280 (2016).
doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2668-1

Zickenrott, I., Woche, S., Bachmann, J., Ahmed, M., Vetterlein, D.: 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(2), 294-302 (2016).
doi:10.1002/jpln.201500511

Ahmed, M., Kroener, E., Benard, P., Zarebanadkouki, M., Kaestner, A., Carminati, A.: Drying of mucilage causes water repellency in the rhizosphere of maize : measurements and modelling. Plant and Soil, 407(1/2), 161-171 (2016).
doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2749-1

Carminati, A., Zarebanadkouki, M., Kroener, E., Ahmed, M., Holz, M.: Biophysical rhizosphere processes affecting root water uptake. Annals of Botany, 118(4), 561-571 (2016).
doi:10.1093/aob/mcw113

2015

Kroener, E., Ahmed, M., Carminati, A.: Roots at the percolation threshold. Physical Review E, 91, No. 042706 (2015).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042706

Ahmed, M., Holz, M., Woche, S., Bachmann, J., Carminati, A.: 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(6), 821-824 (2015).
doi:10.1002/jpln.201500177

2014

Ahmed, M., Kroener, E., Holz, M., Zarebanadkouki, M., Carminati, A.: Mucilage exudation facilitates root water uptake in dry soils. Functional Plant Biology, 41(11), 1129-1137 (2014).
doi:10.1071/FP13330

Other publications

2016

Carminati, A., Kostka, S., Zarebanadkouki, M., Ahmed, M., Ahmadi, K.: Plant rhizosphere engineering rhizo signaling gel matrix
US 2016/0278368 A1, (2016-09-29)