Untangling the effect of roots and mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungi on soil metabolite profiles under ambient and elevated carbon dioxide

Wong-Bajracharya, J; Castañeda-Gómez, L; Plett, KL; Anderson, IC; Carrillo, Y; Plett, JM

Untangling the effect of roots and mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungi on soil metabolite profiles under ambient and elevated carbon dioxide

Wong-Bajracharya, J Castañeda-Gómez, L Plett, KL Anderson, IC Carrillo, Y Plett, JM

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Citation:: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020, 151, pp. 108021-108021
Issue Date:: 2020-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wong-Bajracharya, J
dc.contributor.author	Castañeda-Gómez, L
dc.contributor.author	Plett, KL
dc.contributor.author	Anderson, IC
dc.contributor.author	Carrillo, Y
dc.contributor.author	Plett, JM
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-03T07:13:51Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-03T07:13:51Z
dc.date.issued	2020-12-01
dc.identifier.citation	Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020, 151, pp. 108021-108021
dc.identifier.issn	0038-0717
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/144489
dc.description.abstract	© 2020 Metabolites in soil play an important role in regulating plant-microbe interactions and, thereby, plant performance. Biotic factors such as root exudation and microbial activity or abiotic factors such as the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) can drive both quantitative and qualitative changes in soil metabolite profiles. While the impact of these factors, either in isolation or in combination, are underexplored in soil systems due to technical challenges, recent technological advances have enabled these hurdles to be overcome. Given the key role that mutualistic ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi play in forest soils through their symbiotic interaction with trees, and the foreseen changes in forest dynamics with climate change, we investigated the effect of the Eucalyptus grandis-Pisolithus albus (plant host-fungus) association on soil metabolite profiles under ambient and elevated CO2 conditions (aCO2 and eCO2). We found that significant metabolite enrichment predominately occurred in the rhizosphere where a strong effect by ECM fungus was also observed. Specific ECM fungus-induced metabolites were enriched concurrently with an increased host plant root:shoot ratio, suggesting that the influence of ECM fungus on rhizosphere metabolite profiles may impact plant growth. Strikingly, however, we found no observable differences in soil metabolite profiles between the aCO2 and eCO2 conditions, which may be due to nutrient limitation given the low level of nutrients found in typical eucalyptus forest soils. Overall, our findings increase our understanding of soil metabolic processes at the symbiotic plant-microbe interface under current and future atmospheric CO2 scenarios.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartof	Soil Biology and Biochemistry
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108021
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	05 Environmental Sciences, 06 Biological Sciences, 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
dc.subject.classification	Agronomy & Agriculture
dc.title	Untangling the effect of roots and mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungi on soil metabolite profiles under ambient and elevated carbon dioxide
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	151
utslib.for	05 Environmental Sciences
utslib.for	06 Biological Sciences
utslib.for	07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
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dc.date.updated	2020-12-03T07:13:00Z
pubs.publication-status	Accepted
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© 2020 Metabolites in soil play an important role in regulating plant-microbe interactions and, thereby, plant performance. Biotic factors such as root exudation and microbial activity or abiotic factors such as the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) can drive both quantitative and qualitative changes in soil metabolite profiles. While the impact of these factors, either in isolation or in combination, are underexplored in soil systems due to technical challenges, recent technological advances have enabled these hurdles to be overcome. Given the key role that mutualistic ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi play in forest soils through their symbiotic interaction with trees, and the foreseen changes in forest dynamics with climate change, we investigated the effect of the Eucalyptus grandis-Pisolithus albus (plant host-fungus) association on soil metabolite profiles under ambient and elevated CO2 conditions (aCO2 and eCO2). We found that significant metabolite enrichment predominately occurred in the rhizosphere where a strong effect by ECM fungus was also observed. Specific ECM fungus-induced metabolites were enriched concurrently with an increased host plant root:shoot ratio, suggesting that the influence of ECM fungus on rhizosphere metabolite profiles may impact plant growth. Strikingly, however, we found no observable differences in soil metabolite profiles between the aCO2 and eCO2 conditions, which may be due to nutrient limitation given the low level of nutrients found in typical eucalyptus forest soils. Overall, our findings increase our understanding of soil metabolic processes at the symbiotic plant-microbe interface under current and future atmospheric CO2 scenarios.

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