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Nature
Intercropping peanuts with maize and oilseed rape alters rhizosphere metabolite profiles and enhances nitrogen fixation. Over 8 years, changes in peanut metabolite accumulation (flavonoids and coumarins) boosted growth and nitrogen...
Environmental Challenges
Spatial and temporal variability in atmospheric methane (XCH4) across Iran is influenced by meteorological factors rather than anthropogenic sources. This 20-year study using satellite data and machine learning identified high...
Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Potassium is essential for plant growth, but its availability is often limited by soil fixation and leaching. Potassium solubilizing microbes (KSMs) enhance potassium availability in soil through organic acid secretion...
BCG
Agricultural soils can significantly contribute to carbon removal and combat climate change through improved soil management practices
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
Root-associated microbial communities in sugar maple seedlings are driven by soil pH, calcium, and distance to trees, with elevation having a minor role. Changes in fungal communities mediate soil pH...
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,...
Plant Stress
The pre-treatment of olive plants with Pseudomonas reactans Ph3R3 promoted olive performance and tolerance to drought by improving leaf biomass, soil C and N availability, and leaf water content in...
Current Plant Biology
Bacillus siamensis strain BW, isolated from rhizospheric soil, effectively mitigates salt stress in rice. This strain improved seed germination and growth in a saline soil (75–150 mM NaCl). BW produces...
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
Root-associated microbiomes in soybeans show dynamic changes influenced by unbalanced fertilization. Lack of N alters bacterial communities, while absence of P reduces bacterial load. A SynCom from low-nitrogen conditions can...
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...
Nature
Soil fertility affects microbial functions and diversity. In the tropical pastures of Brazil, high fertility (HF) soils showed greater bacterial diversity and complex interactions, with dominant Proteobacteria and enriched nitrogen-cycling...
Cell
Sphingomonas panaciterrae (PB20) significantly improved spinach growth and nutritional profile. Seed priming increased plant height by 65.65%, fresh weight by 37.41%, and vitamin C by 94.6%. Foliar application boosted nutrient...
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...
Science of The Total Environment
Forests store carbon (C) and help reduce atmospheric CO2, driving global tree planting to offset emissions. However, benefits vary based on C sequestration reversibility, energy balance impacts, and local ecosystem...
Nature
Inadequate methane reductions deplete remaining carbon budgets for 1.5 °C and 2 °C targets, jeopardizing Paris Agreement goals. This study reveals the non-CO2 emissions assumptions in IPCC's latest budget estimates,...
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.
Nature
Wetland methane emissions are more temperature-dependent than CO2 emissions, driven by soil C-to-N ratios and organic matter decomposability. The study finds that only 23% of global wetlands will reduce methane...
Nature
Global soils may release 0.22–0.53 petagrams of carbon annually due to warming, intensifying climate change. This shift from carbon sinks to sources complicates global warming mitigation efforts. Current models overestimate...
Pivot Bio
Discusses the potential of various climate solutions, including innovative carbon removal techniques.
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,...
Nature
Climate extremes under 1.5°C warming mostly worsen soil organic carbon (SOC) loss, varying by ecosystem. The study finds that cold spell reductions positively affect SOC, while extreme wet days have...
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%,...
Science of The Total Environment
A global meta-analysis of 568 comparisons across 137 studies found that replacing chemical fertilizers with organic ones significantly reduces N2O emissions but increases CO2 and CH4 emissions, raising the global...
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...
Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry
The 5th Edition of Soil Microbiology, Ecology, and Biochemistry delves into the critical role of soil biota and their interactions in addressing global change, ecosystem sustainability, and food security. Updated...
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...
Earth System Science Data
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic CO2 emissions is critical for understanding the global carbon cycle. In 2022, fossil CO2 emissions were 9.9±0.5 Gt C yr−1, land-use change emissions were 1.2±0.7 Gt...
Nature
Commitments to net-zero CO2 or GHG emissions now cover 88% of global emissions. However, CO2 emissions and removals may not have equivalent climate impacts due to factors like impermanence and...
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...
Cell
Microbiomics, the study of microbial community structure and dynamics, offers valuable insights into plant-soil-microbe interactions that can enhance ecosystem restoration. Despite its potential, microbiomics can be complex and technology may...
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...
Science
Satellite data can pinpoint individual methane and CO2 emission sources from space.
Nature
Streptomyces improve plant drought and salinity stress tolerance by producing spiroketal polyketides, pteridic acid H and its isomer F, which enhance Arabidopsis' root growth. These compounds upregulate stress-responsive genes, suggesting...
Archives of Microbiology
Forests are crucial carbon sinks, but their C storage capacity is reduced by land use and climate change. This study found a global deficit of 226 Gt in forest carbon...
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...
Nature
This review emphasizes the importance of plant resilience to drought and phosphorus (P) stress for global food security. It explores how rhizobacterial consortia in legume-cereal intercropping systems can enhance growth...
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...
Heliyon
Laboratory-developed cyanobacterium-fungal biofilm enhances plant growth, tomato fruit quality, soil nutrients, and enzyme activities, particularly under elevated CO2, and reduces nitrogen fertilizer use by 50%, showing promise for CO2 sequestration.
