Get on your boots: estimating root biomass and rhizodeposition of peas under field conditions reveals the necessity of field experiments

Autor:	Florian Wichern, Thorsten Haase, Hannes Schulz, Jens Dyckmans, Rainer Georg Joergensen, Anke Hupe, Jürgen Heß, Christian Bruns
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Soil test biology Soil Science Plant physiology Biomass Plant Science Vegetation Spatial distribution biology.organism_classification Pisum Sativum Agronomy Soil water Environmental science
Zdroj:	Plant and Soil. 443:449-462
ISSN:	1573-5036 0032-079X
DOI:	10.1007/s11104-019-04238-z
Popis:	More sustainable agricultural systems, which contribute to C sequestration and biological N fixation, require accurate quantification of plant C and N inputs into soils. This has to be conducted under field conditions, as there are serious shortcomings to pot-based experiments, which have dominated studies on rhizodeposition estimation in the past. Therefore, amounts of below-ground plant C, N, and especially the rhizodeposition of peas were quantified in the field more accurately, with particular emphasis on their transfer into different soil compartments during vegetation. Pea (Pisum sativum L.) plants were labelled with multiple pulses of 13C-glucose and 15N urea using the cotton wick method. Plants were harvested at four dates depending on plant development. Representative soil samples were taken at harvest with a special drilling tool, considering the spatial distribution of pea roots. Our results indicate that the quantity of C and N rhizodeposition did not change between flowering and maturity. About one third of the C and N rhizodeposits were present in microbial biomass and extractable C or the inorganic N pool of soil. When comparing this field study to a former pot experiment, a higher root-to-shoot ratio was detected; also the rhizodeposition-to-root ratio was altered in the field, questioning the assumption that results from pot experiments can be transferred to field conditions. Due to a higher below-ground C (BGC) and N (BGN) input compared to pot experiments, studies aiming at quantifying BGC and BGN input will have to be conducted under field conditions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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