Peer-reviewed publications
2025
Kunz, K., Reitz, T., Peiter, E., & Macholdt, J. (2025). ‚Eternal Rye‘ winter rye grain and straw yield, 1879-2018 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17948934
Pohl L, Winkler P, Mikutta R, Rücknagel J, Gerwin W (2025) Potential of Fe sludge addition to increase the water holding capacity of sandy soil substrates,Journal of Environmental Management,Volume 393 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126870
Vaziritabar Y, Macholdt J, Frei M, Honermeier B (2025) Proficiency of green fallow compared to bare fallow, grain legume and cereal pre-crops in a long-term crop rotation. European Journal of Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2025.127765
Phalempin M, Jentzsch N, Köhne J M, Schreiter S, Gründling R, Vetterlein D, Schlüter S (2025) Soil structure development in a five-year chronosequence of maize cropping on two contrasting soil textures. Soil and Tillage Research 251, 106561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2025.106561
Herion Y, Philipp L, Detjen N, Hoffmann P, Harpole S, Macholdt J, Reitz T, Roscher C (2025) Grassland management affects plant leaf nutrients under ambient and future climate. Ecology and Evolution 15, e71615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71615
Möller K, Blecher T, Bodner G, Böhmer J, Eichler-Löbermann B, Fritz M, Herrmann A, Klöcker D, Koch H-J, Macholdt J, Menskes D, Moll M, Poetsch J, Rapp C, Schäfer T, Schmidtke K, Pekrun C(2025) Regenerative agriculture – approaching a knowledge-based definition. Journal of Cultivated Plants 77, 110–131. [Link]
2024
Pöhlitz J, Schlüter S, Rücknagel J (2024) Short-term effects of double-layer ploughing reduced tillage on soil structure and crop yield. Soil use and management, 40. doi.org/10.1111/sum.13043
Uhlig K, Rücknagel J & Macholdt J (2024): a soil odyssey–HeAted soiL-Monoliths (HAL-Ms) to examine the effect of heat emission from HVDC underground cables on plant growth. Plant Methods 20, 162. [Link]
2023
Wolf M, Wiesmeier M, Macholdt J (2023) Importance of soil fertility for climate-resilient cropping systems: the farmer’s perspective. Soil Security, 100119. doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100119
Niether W, Macholdt J, Schulz F, Gattinger A (2023) Yield dynamics of crop rotations respond to farming type and tillage intensity in an organic agricultural long-term experiment over 24 years. Field Crops Research 303, 109131. doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109131
Becker F, Fuchs P, Heyer W, Rücknagel J (2023) Effect of intercrop cultivation in maize stands on arthropods biomasses and diversity. Journal of Cultivated Plants 75, 3-4. doi.org/10.5073/JfK.2023.03-04.03
Macholdt J, Hadasch S, Macdonald A, Perryman S, Piepho H-P, Scott T, Styczen M, Storkey J (2023) Long-term trends in yield variance of temperate managed grassland. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 43, 37. doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00885-w
Manenti L, Macholdt J, Garcia F-O, Rubio G (2023) Resilience of maize, wheat and soybean cropping systems as affected by fertilization: Analysis of a long-term field network. Agronomy Journal. doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21325
Kunz, K, Hu, Y, Boincean, B, Postolatii, A, Schmidhalter, U (2023) Evaluating the impact of a 2.5–3°C increase in temperature on drought-stressed German wheat cultivars under natural stress conditions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 332, 109378. doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109378
Steffen Schlüter, Maik Lucas, Maxime Phalempin, Loreena Knecht, Felix Langehenke, Annette Deubel, Björn Reddersen, Constanze Rusch, Jan Rücknagel (2023) Organic farming systems affect carbon stocks but not soil structure and associated physical properties in a long-term farming trial on Chernozem. doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116619
2022
Mallast J, Stichnothe H, Kreuter t, Thiel E, Pommer C, Döhler J, Eissner F, Kühling I, Rücknagel J, Pamperin H, Augustin J, Hoffmann M, Simon A, Hülsbergen K-J, Maidl F-X, Tauchnitz N, Bischoff J, Böttcher F (2022) A three-year data set of gaseous field emissions from crop sequence at three sites in Germany. Scientific data 9, Article number:415 (2022) dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01549-2
Kunz K, Hu Y, Schmidhalter U (2022) Carbon isotope discrimination as a key physiological trait to phenotype drought/heat resistance of future climate-resilient German winter wheat compared with relative leaf water content and canopy temperature. Front. Plant Sci. 13. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1043458. [Link]
Laidig F, Feike T, Klocke B, Macholdt J, Miedaner T, Rentel D, Piepho H-P (2022) Yield reduction due to diseases and lodging and impact of input intensity on yield in variety trials in five cereal crops. Euphytika 218, article no. 150. [Link]
2021
Laidig F, Feike T, Klocke B, Macholdt J, Miedaner T, Rentel D, Piepho H-P (2021) Long-term breeding progress of yield, yield-related, and disease resistance traits in five cereal crops of German variety trials. Theor Appl Genet 134, 3805–3827 (2021). [Link]
Reckling M, Ahrends H, Chen T-W, Eugster W, Hadasch S, Knapp S, Laidig F, Linstädter A, Macholdt J, Piepho H-P, Schiffers K, Döring T (2021) Methods of yield stability analysis in long-term field experiments. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 42, 27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-021-00681-4
Studnicki M, Macholdt J, Macdonald A, Stępień W (2021) Effects of Fertilizers and Manures on Temporal Yield Variability of Winter Rye. Agronomy 11(3), 519. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11030519
Macholdt J, Glerup Gyldengren J, Diamantopoulos E, Styczen ME (2021) How will future climate depending agronomic management impact the yield risk of wheat cropping systems? A regional case study of Eastern Denmark. Journal of Agricultural Science 158(8-9), 660-675. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021859620001045
Macholdt J, Hadasch S, Piepho H-P, Reckling M, Taghizadeh-Toosi A, Christensen BT (2021) Yield variability trends of winter wheat and spring barley grown during 1932–2019 in the Askov Long-term Experiment. Field Crops Research 264, 108083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108083
2020
Pöhlitz J, Rücknagel, J, Schlüter S, Vogel H-J, Christen O (2020): Estimation of critical stress ranges to preserve soil functions for differently textured soils. Soil & Tillage Research 200. 104637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2020.104637
Macholdt J, Piepho HP, Honermeier B, Perryman S, Macdonald A, Poulton P (2020) The effects of cropping sequence, fertilization and straw management on the yield stability of winter wheat (1986–2017) in the Broadbalk Wheat Experiment, Rothamsted, UK. The Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 158, 65-79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021859620000301
Macholdt J, Styczen ME, Macdonald A, Piepho HP, Honermeier B (2020) Long-term analysis from a cropping system perspective: Yield stability, environmental adaptability, and production risk of winter barley. European Journal of Agronomy 117, 126056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2020.126056
Hadasch S, Laidig F, Macholdt J, Bönecke E, Piepho HP (2020) Trends in mean performance and stability of winter wheat and winter rye yields in a long-term series of variety trials. Field Crops Research 252, 107792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107792