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ArticleScientific reports2015

Increased plant productivity and decreased microbial respiratory C loss by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria under elevated CO₂.

Ming Nie, Colin Bell, Matthew D Wallenstein, Elise Pendall

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ming Nie1] Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA [2] Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK.
Colin BellNatural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Matthew D WallensteinNatural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Elise Pendall1] Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA [2] Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751 Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increased plant productivity and decreased microbial respiratory C loss can potentially mitigate increasing atmospheric CO₂, but we currently lack effective means to achieve these goals. Soil microbes may play critical roles in mediating plant productivity and soil C/N dynamics under future climate scenarios of elevated CO₂ (eCO₂) through optimizing functioning of the root-soil interface. By using a labeling technique with (13)C and (15)N, we examined the effects of plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas fluorescens on C and N cycling in the rhizosphere of a common grass species under eCO₂. These microbial inoculants were shown to increase plant productivity. Although strong competition for N between the plant and soil microbes was observed, the plant can increase its capacity to store more biomass C per unit of N under P. fluorescens addition. Unlike eCO₂ effects, P. fluorescens inoculants did not change mass-specific microbial respiration and accelerate soil decomposition related to N cycling, suggesting these microbial inoculants mitigated positive feedbacks of soil microbial decomposition to eCO₂. The potential to mitigate climate change by optimizing soil microbial functioning by plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas fluorescens is a prospect for ecosystem management.

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Soil MicrobiologyBiomassCarbonCarbon DioxideCarbon IsotopesNitrogenNitrogen IsotopesPlant RootsPoaceaePseudomonas fluorescensRhizosphereCarbonCarbon DioxideCarbon IsotopesNitrogenNitrogen Isotopes

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PMID25784647
PMCPMC4363858

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