Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts

Autor: Edlinger, Anna, Garland, Gina, Hartman, Kyle, Banerjee, Samiran, Degrune, Florine, García-Palacios, Pablo, Hallin, Sara, Valzano-Held, Alain, Herzog, Chantal, Jansa, Jan, Kost, Elena, Maestre, Fernando T, Pescador, David Sánchez, Philippot, Laurent, Rillig, Matthias C, Romdhane, Sana, Saghaï, Aurélien, Spor, Ayme, Frossard, Emmanuel, van der Heijden, Marcel G A
Přispěvatelé: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Laboratorio de Ecología de Zonas Áridas y Cambio Global (DRYLAB), University of Zurich, van der Heijden, Marcel G A
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante
Universidad de Alicante (UA)
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6(8), 1145-1154
Nature Ecology and Evolution 6 (2022) 8
ISSN: 2397-334X
Popis: Phosphorus (P) acquisition is key for plant growth. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) help plants acquire P from soil. Understanding which factors drive AMF-supported nutrient uptake is essential to develop more sustainable agroecosystems. Here we collected soils from 150 cereal fields and 60 non-cropped grassland sites across a 3,000 km trans-European gradient. In a greenhouse experiment, we tested the ability of AMF in these soils to forage for the radioisotope 33P from a hyphal compartment. AMF communities in grassland soils were much more efficient in acquiring 33P and transferred 64% more 33P to plants compared with AMF in cropland soils. Fungicide application best explained hyphal 33P transfer in cropland soils. The use of fungicides and subsequent decline in AMF richness in croplands reduced 33P uptake by 43%. Our results suggest that land-use intensity and fungicide use are major deterrents to the functioning and natural nutrient uptake capacity of AMF in agroecosystems. The Digging Deeper project was funded through the 2015-2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call for research proposals, with the national funders Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 31BD30-172466), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (317895346), Swedish Research Council Formas (contract 2016-0194), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Digging_Deeper, Ref. PCIN-2016-028) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France; grant ANR-16-EBI3-0004-01).
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