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Oxford Academic
Global soil degradation and increasing reliance on chemical inputs threaten agricultural sustainability, driving interest in microbial inoculants as tools for soil restoration. These biological products have the potential to enhance...
ASM
Mitigating climate change in soil ecosystems involves complex plant and microbial processes regulating carbon pools and flows. Here, we advocate for the use of soil microbiome interventions to help increase...
PubMed
Integrating soil microbiota into restoration planning, interventions, and monitoring is vital for tackling biodiversity loss and climate change. This review emphasizes how incorporating soil microbiota enhances restoration outcomes, improves ecosystem...
Nature
The 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report lacked sufficient land-sector scenario data to estimate total carbon dioxide removal deployment. Using land-based CO2 removal data from IPCC scenarios,...
Soil Use and Management
Soil amendments can significantly enhance soil quality and ryegrass growth in alpine grasslands. This study compared the effects of cattle manure, straw, and mushroom substrate on soil properties and ryegrass...
Future Forests
Nutrients regulate ecosystems, affecting future productivity and carbon sequestration. Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) limit plant growth, with P limiting tropical, subtropical, and temperate broadleaved forests, and N limiting boreal...
Nature
Microbial inoculation can boost soil microbial biomass and stability but may disrupt native microbial communities. A meta-analysis of 335 studies showed inoculants improve biomass, with enhanced effects from fertilizers and...
Semafor
Maasai communities in Kenya are challenging carbon offset projects, arguing they sell carbon credits without fair local benefits
ASM
Earth system models (ESMs )are intended to capture emergent properties and feedbacks that operate at large scales, ranging from biomes to the full planetary system. However, there is continuous effort...
Nature
Microbiome engineering can be hindered when bacterial inoculants inadvertently support native microbiomes. Soil experiments revealed that Pseudomona's inoculants failed to thrive due to nutrient competition and facilitation of resident bacteria....
Nature
This study examines the short-term effects of land degradation and restoration on soil bacterial communities in Brazilian semiarid regions. Using 16S rRNA sequencing, it finds distinct bacterial patterns between degraded,...
Nature
This study used artificial selection to enhance phosphate-solubilising microbial communities. The modified communities, dominated by Klebsiella and Enterobacterales, showed a 24.2% increase in P solubilisation compared to the original soil....
Nature
This study analyzes global soil carbon pools, finding that particulate carbon is 28% more temperature-sensitive than mineral-associated carbon, especially in cooler climates. Current Earth system models vary widely in soil...
Journal of Environmental Management
Land desertification in Brazil’s semiarid region is driven by human activities like overgrazing and deforestation, leading to soil erosion, loss of vegetation, and decreased soil health. Restoration practices such as...
New Phytologist Foundation
Genomic advances have enhanced our understanding of mycorrhizal fungi's role in soil health and ecosystem sustainability. With over 250 fungal genomes sequenced, key genes regulating symbiosis and nutrient uptake have...
Nature
Agricultural management and climatic factors (warming) can interact to alter microbial community composition, physiology and functions and, in turn, soil organic carbon (SOC) formation and accrual in croplands.
Scientia Horticulturae
Rhizospheric bacteria (Bradyrhizobium joponicum and Burkholderia cepacia) enhanced growth, physiological attributes, and endogenous melatonin levels in pot experiments using fenugreek varieties, outperforming inorganic fertilized-control plants. This study suggests a promising...
Carbon Management
Agricultural practices can sequester SOC to mitigate climate change. In this article, authors identify and explain four key uncertainties: 1) predicted SOC and GHG changes, 2) social and economic constraints,...
Science of The Total Environment
Warming affects plant-derived carbon more than microbial carbon, influenced by ecosystem types and climatic regions. This meta-analysis of 142 studies reveals that global warming increases soil carbon pools by 5.46%,...
Earth System Science Data
Field, greenhouse, and lab experiments revealed that monocropping reduces the ability of rhizosphere microbiomes to suppress peanut root rot compared to crop rotations. Depleted key taxa in monocropping led to...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Combining Azotobacter chroococcum 76A and Trichoderma afroharzianum T22 significantly improved tomato yield by 48.5% and enhanced plant water relations under reduced water and nitrogen conditions. The microbial inoculum increased rhizosphere...
Archives of Microbiology
Bacterial communities drive ecosystem stability and functions under global change, but their specific roles are complex. In soils, while bacterial diversity correlates with some ecosystem processes like carbon mineralization, key...
MDPI
Abscisic acid (ABA), crucial for plant stress response, can inhibit seed germination and root growth. Rhodococcus sp. P1Y, a rhizosphere bacterium, metabolizes soil ABA as its sole carbon source. This...
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Deep soil organic carbon (SOC) responds differently to global change compared to surface SOC due to weaker biotic controls and stronger mineral influences at depth. This review highlights the need...
Nature
This study unveils the microbial dark matter of soils by reconstructing 40,039 metagenome-assembled genome bins from 3304 soil metagenomes, identifying 16,530 novel species-level genome bins (uSGBs). These uSGBs enhance our...
MDPI
Microbial carbon metabolism shifts with drought and rewetting. Initially, microbes respire existing carbon pools (12CO2), with new carbon (13C-labeled glucose) metabolized after 15 minutes. This sequential carbon pool utilization highlights...
Nature
Climate change and intensified land use threaten soil functions across Europe. Using observational (456 samples) and experimental (80 samples) data, this study found that rising temperatures, dryness, and cropland management...
Taylor & Francis
This book explores sustainable agriculture methods to combat soil degradation, water pollution, and climate change impacts. This updated volume (2nd edition) presents scientific and practical insights into regenerative soil systems,...
Nature
Microorganisms significantly alter soil properties through biochemical and biophysical processes, impacting microbiome assembly and local ecology. This review explores how microbes modify soil physics, hydrology, and chemistry, and discusses how...
Nature
Restoring plant diversity can enhance soil carbon sequestration, especially in warm and arid climates. The study shows that across 84 grasslands globally, higher plant diversity correlates with greater soil carbon...
Nature
This study expands the role of Calcium in SOC persistence from solely a driver of physico-chemical reactions to a mediator of coupled abiotic-biotic cycling of SOC. Here, Ca promoted hyphae-forming...
Applied Soil Ecology
Microbial consortia outperform single-species inoculation for biofertilization and bioremediation, increasing plant growth by 48% and pollution remediation by 80%. This global meta-analysis of 51 studies highlights the synergistic effects of...
Land Degradation and Development
Biochar application increased soil CO2 emissions (7.4%) and crop yield (9.4%), while decreasing methane (−13.0%) and nitrous oxide emissions (−26.8%), global warming potential (−7.7%), and greenhouse gas intensity (−14.3%). The...
Nature
Drought alters soil microbial activity and carbon allocation, increasing CO2 and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions to the atmosphere. This study found that while CO2 efflux decreased due to reduced...
PLOS Biology
Manipulating the microbiome of cropland soils has the potential to accelerate soil carbon sequestration, but strategies to do so need to be carefully vetted. Here, we highlight the general steps...
Journal of Applied Ecology
Active soil restoration effectively improves soil health, as shown by a global meta-analysis of 1403 studies. Restoration increased soil health metrics, with notable gains in mycorrhizal colonization (+6967%) and reductions...
Nature
Land conversion to crop production results in high soil organic carbon (SOC) loss, though this can be partially mitigated by introducing trees or adding biochar and organic amendments. Forest management...
Nature
Focusing on mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) for long-term carbon storage is important, but not enough due to diverse formation pathways and environmental variations. Effective soil management should also address particulate...
Nature
Land-use perturbation affects microbial community composition and function. Analyzing 79,000 bacterial and 25,000 fungal OTUs (Operational Taxonomic Units) from 715 sites in Europe, we found reduced microbial diversity in woodlands...
ESA
Across 21 dryland sites, RestoreNet evaluated seeding and soil surface treatments (pits, mulch, ConMod) over 3 years. Soil treatments and timing of precipitation significantly improved seedling emergence, while near-term climate-adapted...
Nature
Forestation significantly contributes to carbon sequestration, storing 913.19 ± 47.58 Tg C in northern China, with 74% in biomass and 26% in soil. This large-scale study of 25304 trees and...
New Phytologist Foundation
Native synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) enhanced maize growth more effectively than commercial plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) in low-fertility soils, increasing root-to-shoot ratios by 78-121% compared to 23-86% with PGPRs. SynComs...
Nature
This study examines how microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) influences soil organic carbon (SOC) formation and persistence using global datasets, modeling, and meta-analysis. Findings reveal that CUE is four times...
PubMed
Soil biodiversity and functions across global biomes exhibit nonlinear patterns strongly influenced by water availability. A study of 383 sites reveals that shifts in precipitation and evapotranspiration significantly impact soil...
Agricultural Water Management
Bacillus subtilis improved cotton growth and soil nitrogen efficiency under salt stress. Optimal results were achieved with 5.0 mg·kg⁻¹ Bacillus subtilis and 300 kg·hm⁻² nitrogen fertilizer, increasing cotton yield by...
MDPI
In the past 15–20 years, the use of Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) has significantly increased, demonstrating effectiveness beyond laboratory settings to field conditions. This review discusses recent reports on various PGPB...
Nature
Active and natural restoration both enhance soil carbon sequestration but vary in effectiveness. In a large-scale study across China, active restoration sequestered more carbon in carbon-poor soils and topsoil, while...
Frontiers in Microbiomes
Soil microbiomes respond differently to moisture changes depending on depth, with surface layers showing greater shifts in composition and function. Rhizosphere microbiomes also react to irrigation, but responses vary by...
PubMed
Soil drying and rewetting alter microbial lipid and metabolite profiles. Drought reduces phosphorus-rich lipids and increases stress-related sphingolipids. Rewetting boosts bacterial lipids and polar metabolites, indicating rapid recovery and growth....
Journal of Ecology
Rhizosphere soil microbial activity is closely linked to plant resource acquisition strategies across tree species. Microbial activities, including extracellular enzymes and soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization, varied significantly with plant...
