Multilab EcoFAB study shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass.

ABSTRACT: There is a dynamic reciprocity between plants and their environment: soil physiochemical properties influence plant morphology and metabolism, and root morphology and exudates shape the environment surrounding roots. Here, we investigate the reproducibility of plant trait changes in response to three growth environments. We utilized fabricated ecosystem (EcoFAB) devices to grow the model grass Brachypodium distachyon in three distinct media across four laboratories: phosphate-sufficient and -deficient mineral media allowed assessment of the effects of phosphate starvation, and a complex, sterile soil extract represented a more natural environment with yet uncharacterized effects on plant growth and metabolism. Tissue weight and phosphate content, total root length, and root tissue and exud

SUBMITTER: Sasse J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6519027 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature