Plant intraspecific competition and growth stage alter carbon and nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere

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Plant intraspecific competition and growth stage alter carbon and nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere. / Sun, Yue; Zang, Huadong; Splettstößer, Thomas et al.

In: Plant, Cell and Environment, Vol. 44, No. 4, 01.04.2021, p. 1231-1242.

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Sun Y, Zang H, Splettstößer T, Kumar A, Xu X, Kuzyakov Y et al. Plant intraspecific competition and growth stage alter carbon and nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere. Plant, Cell and Environment. 2021 Apr 1;44(4):1231-1242. Epub 2020 Nov 11. doi: 10.1111/pce.13945

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title = "Plant intraspecific competition and growth stage alter carbon and nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere",
abstract = "Plant roots interact with rhizosphere microorganisms to accelerate soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization for nutrient acquisition. Root-mediated changes in SOM mineralization largely depend on root-derived carbon (root-C) input and soil nutrient status. Hence, intraspecific competition over plant development and spatiotemporal variability in the root-C input and nutrients uptake may modify SOM mineralization. To investigate the effect of intraspecific competition on SOM mineralization at three growth stages (heading, flowering, and ripening), we grew maize (C4 plant) under three planting densities on a C3 soil and determined in situ soil C- and N-mineralization by 13C-natural abundance and 15N-pool dilution approaches. From heading to ripening, soil C- and N-mineralization rates exhibit similar unimodal trends and were tightly coupled. The C-to-N-mineralization ratio (0.6 to 2.6) increased with N availability, indicating that an increase in N-mineralization with N depletion was driven by microorganisms mining N-rich SOM. With the intraspecific competition, plants increased specific root lengths as an efficient strategy to compete for resources. Root morphologic traits rather than root biomass per se were positively related to C- and N-mineralization. Overall, plant phenology and intraspecific competition controlled the intensity and mechanisms of soil C- and N- mineralization by the adaptation of root traits and nutrient mining.",
keywords = "C natural abundance, N pool dilution, arable soil, carbon and nitrogen mineralization, intraspecific competition, maize, root traits, soil organic matter decomposition, Ecosystems Research, Biology",
author = "Yue Sun and Huadong Zang and Thomas Splettst{\"o}{\ss}er and Amit Kumar and Xingliang Xu and Yakov Kuzyakov and Johanna Pausch",
note = "Funding Information: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Grant/Award Number: project PA 2377/2‐1; RUDN University, Grant/Award Number: program 5‐100; Russian Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 19‐77‐30012 Funding information Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge Karin Schmidt, Anita Kriegel, Susann Enzmann, and Ingrid Ostermeyer for their careful help with laboratory and fieldwork. We thank the Laboratory for Radioisotopes (LARI) and Centre for Stable Isotope Research and Analysis (KOSI) of the University of G{\"o}ttingen. We would also like to thank China Scholarship Council for the fellowship for Yue Sun and Huadong Zang, and the DAAD scholarship award to Amit Kumar. We thank Amanda Troxell and Jiarui Gan for the suggestions on manuscript. The authors would like to thank the editor and two reviewers for constructive comments and suggestions. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors. Plant, Cell & Environment published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
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doi = "10.1111/pce.13945",
language = "English",
volume = "44",
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journal = "Plant, Cell and Environment",
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T1 - Plant intraspecific competition and growth stage alter carbon and nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere

AU - Sun, Yue

AU - Zang, Huadong

AU - Splettstößer, Thomas

AU - Kumar, Amit

AU - Xu, Xingliang

AU - Kuzyakov, Yakov

AU - Pausch, Johanna

N1 - Funding Information: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Grant/Award Number: project PA 2377/2‐1; RUDN University, Grant/Award Number: program 5‐100; Russian Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 19‐77‐30012 Funding information Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge Karin Schmidt, Anita Kriegel, Susann Enzmann, and Ingrid Ostermeyer for their careful help with laboratory and fieldwork. We thank the Laboratory for Radioisotopes (LARI) and Centre for Stable Isotope Research and Analysis (KOSI) of the University of Göttingen. We would also like to thank China Scholarship Council for the fellowship for Yue Sun and Huadong Zang, and the DAAD scholarship award to Amit Kumar. We thank Amanda Troxell and Jiarui Gan for the suggestions on manuscript. The authors would like to thank the editor and two reviewers for constructive comments and suggestions. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Plant, Cell & Environment published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2021/4/1

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N2 - Plant roots interact with rhizosphere microorganisms to accelerate soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization for nutrient acquisition. Root-mediated changes in SOM mineralization largely depend on root-derived carbon (root-C) input and soil nutrient status. Hence, intraspecific competition over plant development and spatiotemporal variability in the root-C input and nutrients uptake may modify SOM mineralization. To investigate the effect of intraspecific competition on SOM mineralization at three growth stages (heading, flowering, and ripening), we grew maize (C4 plant) under three planting densities on a C3 soil and determined in situ soil C- and N-mineralization by 13C-natural abundance and 15N-pool dilution approaches. From heading to ripening, soil C- and N-mineralization rates exhibit similar unimodal trends and were tightly coupled. The C-to-N-mineralization ratio (0.6 to 2.6) increased with N availability, indicating that an increase in N-mineralization with N depletion was driven by microorganisms mining N-rich SOM. With the intraspecific competition, plants increased specific root lengths as an efficient strategy to compete for resources. Root morphologic traits rather than root biomass per se were positively related to C- and N-mineralization. Overall, plant phenology and intraspecific competition controlled the intensity and mechanisms of soil C- and N- mineralization by the adaptation of root traits and nutrient mining.

AB - Plant roots interact with rhizosphere microorganisms to accelerate soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization for nutrient acquisition. Root-mediated changes in SOM mineralization largely depend on root-derived carbon (root-C) input and soil nutrient status. Hence, intraspecific competition over plant development and spatiotemporal variability in the root-C input and nutrients uptake may modify SOM mineralization. To investigate the effect of intraspecific competition on SOM mineralization at three growth stages (heading, flowering, and ripening), we grew maize (C4 plant) under three planting densities on a C3 soil and determined in situ soil C- and N-mineralization by 13C-natural abundance and 15N-pool dilution approaches. From heading to ripening, soil C- and N-mineralization rates exhibit similar unimodal trends and were tightly coupled. The C-to-N-mineralization ratio (0.6 to 2.6) increased with N availability, indicating that an increase in N-mineralization with N depletion was driven by microorganisms mining N-rich SOM. With the intraspecific competition, plants increased specific root lengths as an efficient strategy to compete for resources. Root morphologic traits rather than root biomass per se were positively related to C- and N-mineralization. Overall, plant phenology and intraspecific competition controlled the intensity and mechanisms of soil C- and N- mineralization by the adaptation of root traits and nutrient mining.

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KW - soil organic matter decomposition

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