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Tipping the plant-microbe competition for nitrogen in agricultural soils.

Emmy L'Espérance, Lilia Sabrina Bouyoucef, Jessica A Dozois, Etienne Yergeau

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Review in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emmy L'EspéranceInstitut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V1B7, Canada.
Lilia Sabrina BouyoucefInstitut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V1B7, Canada.
Jessica A DozoisInstitut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V1B7, Canada.
Etienne YergeauInstitut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V1B7, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrogen (N) is the most limiting nutrient in agroecosystems, and its indiscriminate application is at the center of the environmental challenges facing agriculture. To solve this dilemma, crops' nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) needs to increase - in other words, more of the applied nitrogen needs to reach humans. Microbes are the key to cracking this problem. Microbes use nitrogen as an energy source, an electron acceptor, or incorporate it in their biomass. These activities change the form and availability of nitrogen for crops' uptake, impacting its NUE, yields and produce quality. Plants (and microbes) have, however, evolved many mechanisms to compete for soil nitrogen. Understanding and harnessing these competitive mechanisms would enable us to tip the nitrogen balance to the advantage of crops. We will review these competitive mechanisms and highlight some approaches that were applied to reduce microbial competition for N in an agricultural context.

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MicrobiologyPlant biologySoil biologySoil chemistrySoil ecologySoil science

Identifiers

PMID39391734
PMCPMC11466649

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