Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle

X He, E Abs, SD Allison, F Tao, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) affects the fate and storage of carbon in terrestrial
ecosystems, but its global importance remains uncertain. Accurately modeling and …

Roots of synthetic ecology: microbes that foster plant resilience in the changing climate

E Kozaeva, AA Eida, EF Gunady, JL Dangl… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
HighlightsInfluences of abiotic stresses on assembly and function of rhizo-microbiomeHow
ecology shapes plant and microbial stress resilienceExamples in which microbial abiotic …

Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates

D Metze, J Schnecker, CLN de Carlan, B Bhattarai… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Soil microorganisms control the fate of soil organic carbon. Warming may accelerate their
activities putting large carbon stocks at risk of decomposition. Existing knowledge about …

Recovery of Soil Microbial Metabolism After Rewetting Depends on Interacting Environmental Conditions and Changes in Functional Groups and Life History …

X Li, A Leizeaga, J Rousk, S Zhou… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is causing an intensification of soil drying and rewetting events, altering
microbial functioning and potentially destabilizing soil organic carbon. After rewetting …

Leveraging genomic information to predict environmental preferences of bacteria

J Ramoneda, M Hoffert, E Stallard-Olivera… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Genomic information is now available for a broad diversity of bacteria, including uncultivated
taxa. However, we have corresponding knowledge on environmental preferences (ie …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial resistance and resilience to drought across a European climate gradient

S Winterfeldt, C Cruz-Paredes, J Rousk… - Soil Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Drought and rainfall events will become more frequent and intense with climate change. At
the same time, soil moisture is one of the major factors controlling soil microbial processes …

Soil moisture-dependent tire wear particles aging processes shift soil microbial communities and elevated nitrous oxide emission on drylands

Q Xu, Z Wu, Z Xu, G Li - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Tire wear particles (TWPs) have been an emerging threat to the soil ecosystem, while impact
of the TWPs aging on soil microbial communities remains poorly understood. This study …

Harnessing co-evolutionary interactions between plants and Streptomyces to combat drought stress

H Liu, J Li, BK Singh - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Streptomyces is a drought-tolerant bacterial genus in soils, which forms close associations
with plants to provide host resilience to drought stress. Here we synthesize the emerging …

Asymmetric winter warming reduces microbial carbon use efficiency and growth more than symmetric year-round warming in alpine soils

L Li, Q Xu, S Jiang, X Jing, Q Shen, JS He… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Asymmetric seasonal warming trends are evident across terrestrial ecosystems, with winter
temperatures rising more than summer ones. Yet, the impact of such asymmetric seasonal …

Environment and microbiome drive different microbial traits and functions in the macroscale soil organic carbon cycle

D Wasner, J Schnecker, X Han, Y Sun… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbial traits and functions play a central role in soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics.
However, at the macroscale (regional to global) it is still unresolved whether (i) specific …