Exploring agro-ecological significance, knowledge gaps, and research priorities in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi DOI Creative Commons

Lenganji Lackson Mwampashi,

Aneth Japhet Magubika,

Job Frank Ringo

et al.

Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Nov. 1, 2024

This systematic review examines the global agricultural relevance and practical environmental implications of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) within phylum Glomeromycota. Following PRISMA guidelines, ensuring a comprehensive unbiased literature review, search was conducted, focusing on functional roles AMF in enhancing crop productivity, nutrient uptake, soil health. Key findings reveal that contribute significantly to sustainable agriculture by reducing need for chemical fertilizers increasing plant resilience stressors like drought, salinity, or pest resistance. The highlights importance forming symbiotic relationships with plants, which enhance absorption improve structure, showcasing long-term benefits such as reduced erosion improved water retention. However, current lacks in-depth exploration taxonomy evolutionary aspects AMF, well specific they play different contexts, e.g., understanding evolution could strain selection crops. identifies several urgent research gaps, including more refined community dynamics under varying land management practices. For example, there are gaps critical evaluation advanced molecular techniques. Such techniques essential studying these interactions. Addressing will integration into systems ecosystem practices across geographical regions. Future should prioritize developing precise imaging optimizing applications crops types maximize their ecological benefits. be through interdisciplinary collaboration (e.g., involving biologists, agronomists, etc.). In conclusion, this advances application its contribution biodiversity conservation agroecosystems. Integrating policy frameworks encourage farming practices, promote adoption inoculants, foster incentives environmentally friendly strategies.

Language: Английский

Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below‐ground multitrophic functioning DOI Creative Commons
Angelos Amyntas, Benoît Gauzens, Marcel Ciobanu

et al.

Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 29, 2025

Abstract The relationship of plant diversity and several ecosystem functions strengthens over time. This suggests that the restructuring biotic interactions in process a community's assembly associated changes function differ between species‐rich species‐poor communities. An important component these is feedback soil community history. In this study, we examined interactive effects richness history on trophic fauna community. We hypothesized experimental removal either or would diminish positive multitrophic food web, compared to mature tested hypothesis long‐term grassland biodiversity experiment by comparing plots across three treatments (without history, without controls with ~20 years plot‐specific history). found below‐ground functionality indeed stronger communities shared Our findings indicate anthropogenic disturbance can impact functioning through loss species but also preventing feedbacks develop assembly.

Language: Английский

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Enhanced Soil Fertility and Carbon Dynamics in Organic Farming Systems: The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Abundance DOI Creative Commons
So Hui Park, Bo Ram Kang, Jinsook Kim

et al.

Journal of Fungi, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(9), P. 598 - 598

Published: Aug. 24, 2024

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are critical for soil ecosystem services as they enhance plant growth and quality via nutrient cycling carbon storage. Considering the growing emphasis on sustainable agricultural practices, this study investigated effects of conventional organic farming practices AMF diversity, abundance, ecological functions in maize, pepper, potato-cultivated soils. Using next-generation sequencing quantitative PCR, we assessed diversity abundance addition to health indicators such phosphorus content, total nitrogen, carbon. Our findings revealed that, while no significant differences physicochemical parameters or were observed across systems when all crop data combined, significantly enhances fosters beneficial microbial ecosystems. These ecosystems play vital roles storage, underscoring importance promoting robust communities that support services. This not only deepens our understanding AMF's but also highlights potential leverage these benefits improving sustainability practices.

Language: Английский

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Impact of long-term loquat cultivation on rhizosphere soil characteristics and AMF community structure: implications for fertilizer management DOI Creative Commons
Yu Zhang, Zongsuo Liang,

Longxi Zheng

et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16

Published: March 13, 2025

The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in assisting the growth different fruit tree species is well-established, yet impact loquat cultivation under long-term human management on rhizosphere soil characteristics and AMF community structure remains unresolved. To address this knowledge gap, we collected roots samples from 20-year-old a germplasm resources nursery with consistent water nutrient conditions including one wild (YS), three pure (GXQH, MHH, DWX), four hybrid (ZJ90, JT, JTH, ZU7). Our analysis revealed that colonization rates ranged 40.57% to 65.54%, Glomus (30.72%) Paraglomus (29.46%) being dominant genera across all varieties. dominated species, while prevailed species. YS exhibited highest richness than cultivars. Significant variations nutrients enzyme activities among Total nitrogen (TN) total potassium (TK) were significantly negatively correlated relative abundance genera, suggesting may reduce abundance. Mantel test showed carbon (TC) organic matter (SOM) key factors influencing composition ( P <0.01). These positively genus (0.06, R 2 = 0.05) but rare such as Ambispora (−0.08, 0.24). Overall, these findings confirmed plant varieties or genotypes drive changes communities further demonstrated enrichment reduces diversity communities. results support use biofertilizers reducing fertilizer application.

Language: Английский

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Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species‐specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare DOI Creative Commons
Leonardo Bassi, Justus Hennecke, Cynthia Albracht

et al.

New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Summary The increased positive impact of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning is often attributed to the accumulation mutualists and dilution antagonists in diverse communities. While alters traits related resource acquisition, it remains unclear whether reduces defence allocation, this reduction differs between roots leaves, or varies among species. To answer these questions, we assessed effect species richness, identity their interaction expression 23 physical chemical leaf fine root 16 a 19‐yr‐old biodiversity experiment. Only mass per area, dry matter content nitrogen, associated with both, acquisition defence, responded consistently richness. However, richness promoted decoupling defences leaves roots, possibly response limitations Species‐specific responses were rare mutualist collaboration, likely responding species‐specific antagonists' mutualists' accumulation. Overall, our study suggests that limitation communities might mediate relationship antagonist dilution.

Language: Английский

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Plant diversity shapes plant volatile emission differently at the species and community level DOI Creative Commons
Pamela Medina‐van Berkum, Cynthia Albracht, Maximilian Bröcher

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 5, 2025

Abstract Studies have investigated the interactions between plants through competition and resource sharing to understand mechanisms behind positive effects of plant diversity on productivity. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are important info-chemicals in plant-plant interactions, but they so far rarely been considered this context. Here, we measured VOC emissions at both community species levels ( Plantago lanceolata ) experimental communities varying (The Jena Experiment) role VOCs driving biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. We show that determines release levels. At level, richness directly enhanced emission increased indirectly by altering herbivore damage LAI. did not affect P. affected it influencing from surrounding community. individuals with high concentrations green leaf volatiles decreased their emission, while those terpenoids diversity. Our results provide first evidence shapes community-level thus influences focal inside

Language: Английский

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Inoculation of the Morchella importuna mycosphere with Pseudomonas chlororaphis alleviated a soil-borne disease caused by Paecilomyces penicillatus DOI
Yang Yu,

Xia Kang,

Tianhai Liu

et al.

Biology and Fertility of Soils, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 29, 2024

Language: Английский

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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities DOI Creative Commons
Justus Hennecke, Leonardo Bassi, Cynthia Albracht

et al.

Ecology Letters, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 28(1)

Published: Dec. 31, 2024

Trait-based approaches have been increasingly used to relate plants soil microbial communities. Using the recently described root economics space as an approach explain structure of soil-borne fungal communities, our study in a grassland diversity experiment reveals distinct trait strategies at plant community level. In addition significant effects species richness, we show that collaboration and conservation gradient are strong drivers composition different guilds fungi. Saprotrophic fungi most diverse species-rich communities with 'slow' traits, whereas pathogenic abundant 'fast' 'DIY' traits. Fungal biomass is strongly driven by richness. Our results illustrate richness jointly determine on their potential role fitness ecosystem functioning.

Language: Английский

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Insights into the influence of intercropping and arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation on two modern durum wheat cultivars and their associated microbiota DOI
Elisa Zampieri, Fabiano Sillo,

Giulio Metelli

et al.

Biology and Fertility of Soils, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 18, 2024

Language: Английский

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Exploring agro-ecological significance, knowledge gaps, and research priorities in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi DOI Creative Commons

Lenganji Lackson Mwampashi,

Aneth Japhet Magubika,

Job Frank Ringo

et al.

Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Nov. 1, 2024

This systematic review examines the global agricultural relevance and practical environmental implications of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) within phylum Glomeromycota. Following PRISMA guidelines, ensuring a comprehensive unbiased literature review, search was conducted, focusing on functional roles AMF in enhancing crop productivity, nutrient uptake, soil health. Key findings reveal that contribute significantly to sustainable agriculture by reducing need for chemical fertilizers increasing plant resilience stressors like drought, salinity, or pest resistance. The highlights importance forming symbiotic relationships with plants, which enhance absorption improve structure, showcasing long-term benefits such as reduced erosion improved water retention. However, current lacks in-depth exploration taxonomy evolutionary aspects AMF, well specific they play different contexts, e.g., understanding evolution could strain selection crops. identifies several urgent research gaps, including more refined community dynamics under varying land management practices. For example, there are gaps critical evaluation advanced molecular techniques. Such techniques essential studying these interactions. Addressing will integration into systems ecosystem practices across geographical regions. Future should prioritize developing precise imaging optimizing applications crops types maximize their ecological benefits. be through interdisciplinary collaboration (e.g., involving biologists, agronomists, etc.). In conclusion, this advances application its contribution biodiversity conservation agroecosystems. Integrating policy frameworks encourage farming practices, promote adoption inoculants, foster incentives environmentally friendly strategies.

Language: Английский

Citations

1