Schneider, Andreas NBuckley, ScottLorenzo, Zulema CarracedoGratz, ReginaNilsson, LinaSwaine, MarkStreet, Nathaniel RTaylor, Andy F SJämtgård, Sandra2025-11-062025-07-14Schneider, A N, Buckley, S, Lorenzo, Z C, Gratz, R, Nilsson, L, Swaine, M, Street, N R, Taylor, A F S & Jämtgård, S 2025, 'Reverse microdialysis of sucrose stimulates soil fungal and bacterial growth at the microscale', BMC Microbiology, vol. 25, 436. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-025-04082-51471-2180https://hdl.handle.net/2164/26381Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge Cheng Choo Lee and the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM-NMI) and Nicolas Delhomme at the Umeå Plant Science Centre Bioinformatics Facility. Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES) Umeå is acknowledged for the contribution of soil to the experiments. We acknowledge support from the National Genomics Infrastructure in Stockholm funded by Science for Life Laboratory, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Research Council, and the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) for assistance with massively parallel sequencing and access to the UPPMAX computational infrastructure. We also want to thank Karin Lodin at Lodin designbyrå AB and Daria Chrobok at DC SciArt for excellent work on the illustrations.121635073engSoil MicrobiologyMicrodialysis/methodsRhizosphereFungi/growth & developmentSucrose/metabolismBacteria/growth & developmentPlant Roots/microbiologySoil/chemistryQR MicrobiologySupplementary DataDASQRJournal article10.1186/s12866-025-04082-5