Soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome.

ABSTRACT: We use a unique set of terrestrial experiments to demonstrate how soil management practises result in emergence of distinct associations between physical structure and biological functions. These associations have a significant effect on the flux, resilience and efficiency of nutrient delivery to plants (including water). Physical structure, determining the air-water balance in soil as well as transport rates, is influenced by nutrient and physical interventions. Contrasting emergent soil structures exert selective pressures upon the microbiome metagenome. These selective pressures are associated with the quality of organic carbon inputs, the prevalence of anaerobic microsites and delivery of nutrients to microorganisms attached to soil surfaces. This variety results in distinctive gene as

SUBMITTER: Neal AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7327058 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature