Publications

Garcia, J., Mondragon-Becerra, M., Martinez, I., Soumano, V., Stewart, W., Ryals, R., Nocco, M., & Lazcano, C. Locally sourced organic amendments support soil health and crop productivity in West Oakland urban agriculture. Current Plant Biology (In review).

Wong, C., Robles Zaragoza, L., Vaz, B., Martinez, I., Herrera, A., Garcia, J., Gontijo, J., Steenwerth, K., & Lazcano, C. Depth-associated shifts in soil carbon pools and prokaryotic communities in vineyard soils. Applied Soil Ecology (In review).

Garcia, J., Mondragon-Becerra, M., Martinez, I., Wong, C., Caron, Z., Kravitz, K., Owyang, E., Jegede, K., Ryals, R., & Lazcano, C. Regenerative agriculture support soil health and biodiversity in an urban landscape. Discover Sustainability, 7, 587.

Malal, H., Garcia, J., Marrs, A., Emerson, C., Nocco, M., Lachtar, H., & Lazcano, C. The resistance of soil microbiome to salinity stress in the presence of organic and inorganic fertilizer in short- and long-term experiment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16:1551586 (2025).

Garcia, J., Mondragon-Becerra, M., Martinez, I., Nocco, M., & Lazcano, C. Organic Amendments Alter Urban Soil Microbiomes and Improve Crop Quality. Applied Soil Ecology 204 (2024).

Garcia, J., Moravek, M., Fish, T., Thannhauser, T., Fei, Z., Sparks, J., Giovannoni, J., & Kao-Kniffin, J. Transcriptome of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Reveals Impacts of Root Microbiomes on Host Interactions. Scientific Reports 14, 21362 (2024).

Garcia, J., Bray, N., Butler-Jones, A., Son, Y., Egendorf, P., & Kao-Kniffin, J. Plant growth and microbial responses from urban agriculture soils amended with excavated local sediments and municipal composts. Journal of Urban Ecology 9(1) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juad016.

Garcia, J., Gannett, M., Wei, L. et al. Selection pressure on the rhizosphere microbiome can alter nitrogen use efficiency and seed yield in Brassica rapa. Commun Biol 5, 959 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03860-5

Garcia, J., Schmidt, J., Gidekel, M., & Gaudin, A. Impact of an Antarctic rhizobacterium on root traits and productivity of soybean (Glycine max L.). Journal of Plant Nutrition, 44:12, 1818-1825 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2021.1884704

Vasilikiotis, C., Li, M., Schmidt, J., Azimi, A., Garcia, J., Volder, A., Lampinen, B., & Gaudin, A. Orchard management practices affect mycorrhizal colonization of almond. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 36:4, 230-248 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/01448765.2020.1802777

Garcia, J., and Kao-Kniffin, J. Can dynamic network modeling be used to identify adaptive microbiomes? Functional Ecology, 3, 2065-2074 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13491

Garcia, J., and Kao-Kniffin, J. Microbial group dynamics in plant rhizospheres and their implications on nutrient cycling. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9 (1516) (2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01516