Root Exudates and Soil Organic Carbon

Version	Summary	Created by	Modification	Content Size	Created at	Operation
1		Chunwang Xiao	--	2752	2023-02-16 12:59:10	\|
2	format change	Peter Tang	-134 word(s)	2618	2023-02-17 04:33:45	\| \|
3	format change	Peter Tang	Meta information modification	2618	2023-02-17 04:35:02	\|

This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/plants12030630

Root exudates, as an important form of material input from plants to the soil, regulate the carbon input and efflux of plant rhizosphere soil and play an important role in maintaining the carbon and nutrient balance of the whole ecosystem. Root exudates are notoriously difficult to collect due to their underlying characteristics (e.g., low concentration and fast turnover rate) and the associated methodological challenges of accurately measuring root exudates in native soils. As a result, up until now, it has been difficult to accurately quantify the soil organic carbon input from root exudates to the soil in most studies. The contribution and ecological effects of root exudates to soil organic carbon input and efflux have been paid more and more attention.

rhizosphere root exudates soil organic carbon soil microbes

1. Introduction

The soil carbon stock is more than twice the atmosphere carbon stock and plays a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle ^[1]. Soil can sequester and store organic carbon, thereby reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, and thus mitigating climate change. However, one concern is that the mineralization of soil organic carbon increases atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. Soil is a non-homogeneous system, and the temporal scales of different forms of soil carbon turnover considerably vary under the influences of climate change, soil physicochemical properties, land management, and other factors. Due to the limits in monitoring, verification, sampling, and depth methods, it is also difficult to interpret and quantify a small increase or decrease in the soil carbon stock at different spatial and temporal scales and to assess the carbon sequestration potential of soil ^[2]. The source forms of soil carbon can be divided into directly fixed soil inorganic carbon (such as calcium and magnesium carbonate) and indirectly fixed soil organic carbon (SOC). SOC is a dynamic organic continuum. In order to better understand the underlying processes of SOC formation and mineralization, Lavallee et al. (2020) suggested that SOC should be separated into particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) ^[3]. POC is mainly derived from litter and root inputs, while MAOC is mainly microbial derivatives ^[4]. MAOC usually can keep longer ^[3]. With the deepening of the research on the soil carbon cycle, the mechanism of SOC stabilization has been gradually revealed. Plant carbon inputs are the dominant organic constituent of SOC, and their relative importance outweighs other abiotic factors to SOC stabilization in the topsoil at regional and global scales ^[5]. Plant inputs enter the soil as either aboveground C or belowground C and include both structural litter inputs (e.g., root and shoot detritus) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) (rhizodeposition and leaf litter leachate). A suite of recent studies has found that belowground carbon inputs have a greater impact on the efficiency and stabilization of soil carbon inputs than aboveground carbon inputs do ^[6]^[7]^[8]. Belowground carbon inputs retained in the mineral soil are between two and five times more efficient than aboveground carbon inputs at a certain spatial and temporal scale ^[9]. Plant roots are the key structure connecting the aboveground and belowground parts of plants, and their morphological structure, physiological metabolism, and other characteristics affect the carbon allocation from plants to soil.

Although soil carbon inputs from living roots account for a small proportion of total plant photosynthate compared to those from litter, they determine the asymmetry of aboveground and belowground SOC distribution and are more effectively retained in MAOC and POC than litter carbon inputs ^[6]. However, the release of organic compounds into the soil by living roots has been the most uncertain part of the soil carbon flux and cycle ^[10]. Root carbon inputs can lead to SOC increase and promote SOC stabilization. For example, compared with plant shoot and mycorrhizal pathways, plant roots in temperate steppe contribute to the newest SOC formation under different soil fertility levels ^[11]. However, root carbon inputs can also reduce SOC stabilization so that preserved C can be used by soil microbes, leading to SOC loss. Meanwhile, plant roots can also reduce the stability of organic carbon through the destruction of aggregates ^[12]. Therefore, it is very important to identify the mechanism of root carbon inputs on soil carbon stabilization and to evaluate SOC input and efflux with precise quantification. In the root system, fine roots have been the focus of most studies, because they are generally essential for many root functions (e.g., root elongation, nutrient and water acquisition, association with symbionts, and carbon exudates). The roots of grassland plants form a dense network of fine roots in the deeper soil and can alleviate the decomposition of SOC to some extent ^[13]. The links among fine root classes (including individual root orders), traits, and functions will be a key research area, as morphological and chemical traits of fine roots have been extensively studied, while physiological traits have rarely been considered ^[14].

Rhizodeposition is formed when plant roots release organic and inorganic compounds in the roots to the adjacent soil, which mainly comes from plant detritus, the decomposition and renewal of root cells, and root exudates. Gross rhizodeposition carbon accounts for 5–20% of photosynthates ^[15]. Root exudation can account for up to 2–11% of the total photosynthetic production ^[16]. Root exudates are an important part of rhizodeposition, reflecting a physiological property of fine roots, and some dissolved organic materials in root exudates produced by living plants through primary metabolism, secondary metabolism, and abiotic metabolism are the main carriers for plant roots releasing organic carbon into the soil ^[17]. CO₂ in the atmosphere that is fixed by plants through photosynthesis reaches the soil via aboveground plant residues, belowground root exudates, and root turnover, and these constitute the main sources of soil carbon. The contribution rate of root exudates and litter to soil organic carbon input in different degraded grassland ecosystems in Inner Mongolia ranged from 8.8 to 14.8% and 16.8 to 17.2%, respectively ^[18]. While interacting with biotic and environmental factors, root exudates also affect SOC efflux ^[19]. Most of the previous studies focus on root exudates of the crop plant (bean, wheat) to develop agriculture and the interaction between root exudates and the rhizosphere environment to reveal the relationships between root exudates and soil carbon and nitrogen. With the increasing development of basic research content and analytical methods, soil chemistry and ecology have gradually become the cross-content of root exudates research, and the research topic has gradually become ecological problem mechanisms from the application ^[20]. The processes of the soil carbon cycle mediated by root exudates and its influencing mechanism are key and difficult points in the construction of the global carbon cycle model ^[21]. In many studies, the physiological characteristics and ecological effects of root exudates have been summarized ^[22]^[23], and their response to stress in the environment and feedback role ^[24]^[25] and the influence of root exudates on SOC input and carbon efflux have also been mentioned ^[12]^[26], but few studies have integrated SOC input and efflux to explore root exudates. In order to quantify the contribution of abiotic factors (e.g., physical and chemical factors) and biologic factors (e.g., microbial community factors) to soil carbon mineralization and stability mediated by root exudates, and to clarify the potential mechanism of root exudates in soil carbon sequestration, fully understanding the processes of SOC input and efflux mediated by root exudates and their effect mechanism is important. The processes of SOC input and efflux mediated by root exudates are illustrated and the mechanism of root exudates on SOC sequestration is revealed in this paper (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Main processes of soil organic carbon input and efflux mediated by root exudates.

2. Root Exudates and Soil Organic Carbon Input

The interactions of root exudates with soil microbes and minerals are beneficial to SOC formation. Active compositions in root exudates effectively form MAOC by combining with organic minerals in the surrounding mineral soil ^[27]. Unstable DOC (such as monosaccharides) compounds in root exudates provide soil microbes with important precursors involved in SOC formation ^[28]. Firstly, there is spatial heterogeneity in SOC formed by root exudates in the rhizosphere. The effects of dissolved matter in root exudates on SOC storage and structural development are significantly different between surface and bottom soils, and the potential for SOC accumulation in deeper soil is higher than in surface soil due to the addition of root exudates. In forests, a large number of dissolved matter in root exudates can induce large aggregation of organisms and storage of carbon in deeper soil ^[29]. Secondly, the composition complexity of root exudates affects the formation of different soil carbon components. Simple compositions in root exudates may promote the formation of MAOC, while complex compositions may promote the formation of POC ^[30]. So, the same compositions of root exudates have different effects on SOC stability in different spaces, and the different quantities and compositions of root exudates have different effects on soil carbon turnover.

The quantity and quality of root exudates vary significantly among plant species ^[31]. Phylogeny is a common controlling factor of root functional traits and root exudates ^[32]. In recent years, root exudates have been gradually taken into account in the construction of multi-dimensional traits and economic spaces to study the functional mechanisms of roots. Root functional traits can reflect the characteristics of root morphogenesis, chemical metabolism, and symbiosis. For example, specific root length is commonly known as specific root area and is a compound trait determined by root diameter (RD) and root tissue density (RTD), which reflects the cost of root construction; root nitrogen concentration (RNC) is used to reflect the overall metabolic activity of roots; and mycorrhizal colonization represents the symbiotic character of plants. All these traits reflect the strategies and efficiency of plant uptake of soil nutrients ^[33]. The root exudation rate has been shown to have different correlations with root functional traits in different species, and it can be used as a functional trait and a key indicator of the plant resource utilization strategy (utilization and conservation) ^[34]. For instance, root exudates from the fine roots of woody plants are positively correlated with root N concentration ^[35]. Some studies also report that the specific root exudation rate increases with the increase in root diameter and decreases with the increase in RTD, but it has no relationship with RNC ^[36]. Evidence from studies on root exudates suggests that the root exudation rate is a survival strategy for plants to adapt to a low-nutrient environment, and an increase in the root exudation rate leads to a high cost of root construction and slow root growth ^[35]. There is a negative correlation between mycorrhizal colonization and the root exudation rate, indicating that there is a trade-off between mycorrhizal symbiosis and root exudates in belowground carbon allocation ^[37]. Based on the analysis and research on the characteristics of root exudates, the quality of root exudates (metabolic characteristics) is considered to play a more important ecological role in root functional traits. RD, RTD, and RNC change obviously in the metabolic composition of root exudates ^[38]. The composition of primary metabolites in root exudates varies with the plant growth strategy, and the root of more competitive species (faster-growing species) secretes more primary metabolites (e.g., sugars, organic acids), while the root of conserved species (slower-growing species) secretes more amino acids ^[34]. Therefore, root functional traits determine the carbon allocation of root exudates and nutrient utilization strategies of plants in different soil stocks, and the relationship between root exudates and root traits mainly depends on plant characteristics.

3. Root Exudates and Soil Organic Carbon Efflux

It is generally believed that the increase of SOC input can effectively promote soil carbon sequestration, but more and more evidence shows that SOC input will also change the turnover of the original SOC, thus resulting in SOC loss. Root exudates, as an input form of active C substrate, can stimulate the decomposition of more stable SOC ^[39], which is a process known as the “priming effect”. One mechanism is the “Microbial metabolism theory”, in which root exudates, as the energy matrix of soil microbes, stimulate the decomposition of SOC by affecting the structure, composition, and activity of microbial communities. Another new mechanism is that root exudates (oxalic acid) disrupt or reduce the stability of the MAOC complex by physical chemistry, thus allowing the release of protected C from the soil for microbial decomposition and utilization ^[19]. There is no consensus on the mechanism of the rhizosphere priming effect. Although the priming effect has been proven to be prevalent in nature, most relevant studies are currently conducted in greenhouses. It is indeed necessary to strengthen field experiments as well as long-term observation and data accumulation ^[39]. Frequent carbon inputs can induce a stronger priming effect than occasional carbon inputs do, so increasing carbon input frequency may weaken the carbon sink of grasslands ^[40]. This means that the priming effect is likely to offset the contribution of root exudates to SOC input, and the involvement of root exudates in the formation of SOC does not improve the carbon sequestration potential of soil to some extent as a whole, but only provides a short-term prediction.

The quantity and composition of root exudates are different and make the intensity of the priming effect different. Higher rhizodeposition can accelerate soil carbon turnover ^[41]. The simpler the structure of the root exudates C matrix, the faster the energy conversion, the more complex the structure of the root exudates C matrix, and the less the priming effect ^[42]. Plant functional traits are key factors for the priming effect to affect SOC decomposition. An increase in the root exudation rate will increase the influence of the priming effect on organic matter decomposition ^[43]. Due to differences in the strategies and efficiency of using C by different soil microbes, the distribution and turnover of root exudates in different soil microbial groups are different, and different bacterial functional groups in the soil have different effects on the priming effect. According to the relative distribution and turnover rate of root carbon deposition in the individual microbiome in the soil, the mean turnover rates of rhizodeposited C in microbial groups ranged from 0.04 to 0.13 day⁻¹. Gram-negative bacteria and fungi were the dominant microbiomes that converted root C deposition into SOC ^[15].

The stability and activity of SOC also affect the intensity of the priming effect. SOC stability (characterized by chemical resistance and physical chemistry protection) can better account for differences in the priming effect than the plant, soil, and microbial characteristics ^[44]. The priming effect of soil carbon increases with an increase in soil refractory carbon components but decreases with an increase in soil aggregate and mineral protection ^[45]. The relatively more stable SOC has a higher priming effect than the unstable SOC does. The rapid turnover of root exudates mainly depends on material decomposition and microbial utilization. Root exudate decomposition is an important part of the carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems. Most rhizodepositions, especially active C in root exudates easily used by soil microbes, have an important impact on soil C dynamics ^[46]. However, root exudates such as oxalate may also release organic compounds directly from organic mineral aggregates, so that soil microbes access these compounds easily, resulting in increasing net soil carbon loss ^[47]. The part of the carbon released by microbial decomposition in the priming effect is not released into the atmosphere, and this part of carbon can compensate for the carbon loss caused by the priming effect, but where the carbon goes in the soil is still uncertain ^[48]. Some studies have quantified the decomposition rate of SOC in the rhizosphere of grasslands and their responses to drought and nitrogen addition using ¹³C-CO₂ pulse labeling. The results show that the decomposition amplitude of accumulated rhizodeposition C was similar to that of accumulated SOC. Decomposition of rhizodeposited C accounted for 7–31% of the total below-ground respiration in grassland ecosystems. It may be a larger component of CO₂ released from the soil in grasslands ^[49]. Therefore, it is necessary to further improve the understanding of the influence of abiotic factors on the intensity and direction of the priming effect.

References

Lehmann, J.; Kleber, M. The contentious nature of soil organic matter. Nature 2015, 528, 60–68.
Abdullahi, A.C.; Siwar, C.; Shaharudin, M.I.; Anizan, I. Carbon Sequestration in Soils: The Opportunities and Challenges. Carbon Capture Util. Sequestration 2018.
Lavallee, J.M.; Soong, J.L.; Cotrufo, M.F. Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral-associated forms to address global change in the 21st century. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2020, 26, 261–273.
Yu, W.; Huang, W.; Weintraub-Leff, S.R.; Hall, S.J. Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils? Soil Bio. Biochem. 2022, 172, 108756.
Chen, L.; Fang, K.; Wei, B.; Qin, S.; Feng, X.; Hu, T.; Ji, C.; Yang, Y.; Cleland, E. Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales. Ecol. Lett. 2021, 24, 1018–1028.
Sokol, W.N.; Kuebbing, S.E.; Karlsen-Ayala, E.; Bradford, M.A. Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon. New Phytol. 2019, 221, 233–246.
Hicks, P.; Caitlin, E.; Bird, J.; Castanha, C.; Hatton, P.J.; Torn, M.S. Long term decomposition: The influence of litter type and soil horizon on retention of plant carbon and nitrogen in soils. Biogeochemistry 2017, 134, 5–16.
Jackson, R.B.; Lajtha, K.; Crow, S.E.; Hugelius, G.; Kramer, M.G.; Piñeiro, G. The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls. Ann. Rev. Ecol. 2017, 48, 419–445.
Clemmensen, K.E.; Bahr, A.; Ovaskainen, O.; Dahlberg, A.; Ekblad, A.; Wallander, H.; Stenlid, J.; Finlay, R.D.; Wardle, D.A.; Lindahl, B.D. Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest. Science 2013, 339, 1615–1618.
Pausch, J.; Kuzyakov, Y. Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2018, 24, 1–12.
Huang, J.; Liu, W.; Yang, S.; Yang, L.; Peng, Z.; Deng, M.; Xu, S.; Zhang, B.; Ahirwal, J.; Liu, L. Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2021, 160, 108322.
Dijkstra, F.A.; Zhu, B.; Cheng, W. Root effects on soil organic carbon: A double-edged sword. New Phytol. 2021, 230, 60–65.
Yang, Y.; Tilman, D.; Furey, G.; Lehman, C. Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 718.
Freschet, G.T.; Roumet, C.; Treseder, K. Sampling roots to capture plant and soil functions. Funct. Ecol. 2017, 31, 1506–1518.
Huang, J.; Liu, W.; Deng, M.; Wang, X.; Wang, Z.; Yang, L.; Liu, L. Allocation and turnover of rhizodeposited carbon in different soil microbial groups. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2020, 150, 107973.
Gargallo-Garriga, A.; Preece, C.; Sardans, J.; Oravec, M.; Urban, O.; Penuelas, J. Root exudate metabolomes change under drought and show limited capacity for recovery. Sci. Rep. 2018, 8, 12696.
Xiao, C.; Yang, F.; Zhou, Y.; Su, J.; Liang, Y.; Pei, Z. Research progress on belowground carbon input and efflux processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Chin. Bull. Bot. 2017, 52, 652–668.
Shen, X.; Yang, F.; Xiao, C.; Zhou, Y. Increased contribution of root exudates to soil carbon input during grassland degradation. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2020, 146, 107817.
Keiluweit, M.; Bougoure, J.J.; Nico, P.S.; Pett-Ridge, J.; Weber, P.K.; Kleber, M. Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates. Nat. Clim. Chang. 2015, 5, 588–595.
Zhang, Y.; Zhu, L.; Cheng, Y.; Xing, Q.; Lan, Y. Current situation and trend of root exudates research-knowledge mapping analysis based on citespace. Jiangsu Agric. Sci. 2022, 50, 34–45.
Yin, H.; Zhang, Z.; Liu, Q. Root exudates and their ecological consequences in forest ecosystems: Problems and perspective. Chin. J. Plant Ecol. 2018, 42, 1055–1070.
Haichar, F.Z.; Santaella, C.; Heulin, T.; Achouak, W. Root exudates mediated interactions belowground. Soil Bio. Biochem. 2014, 77, 69–80.
Li, J.; Fan, M.; Shang-Guan, Z. Research progress on main ecological functions of plant root exudates. Chin. Bull. Bot. 2020, 55, 788–796.
Canarini, A.; Kaiser, C.; Merchant, A.; Richter, A.; Wanek, W. Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli. Front. Plant Sci. 2019, 10, 157.
Li, Y.; Yang, F.; Han, P.; Zhou, W.; Wang, J.; Yan, X.; Lin, J. Research progress on the mechanism of root exudates in response to abiotic stresses. Chin. J. Appl. Environ. Biol. 2021, 28, 1384–1392.
Zhou, S.; Lin, J.; Wang, P.; Zhu, P.; Zhu, B. Resistant soil organic carbon is more vulnerable to priming by root exudate fractions than relatively active soil organic carbon. Plant Soil 2022, in press.
Pett-Ridge, J.; Firestone, M.K. Using stable isotopes to explore root-microbe-mineral interactions in soil. Rhizosphere 2017, 3, 244–253.
Baumert, V.L.; Vasilyeva, N.A.; Vladimirov, A.; Kallenbach, C.M.; Frey, S.D.; Grandy, A.S. Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls. Nat. Commun. 2016, 7, 13630.
Baumert, V.L.; Vasilyeva, N.A.; Vladimirov, A.A.; Meier, I.C.; Kögel-Knabner, I.; Mueller, C.W. Root Exudates Induce Soil Macroaggregation Facilitated by Fungi in Subsoil. Front. Environ. Sci. 2018, 6, 140.
Cotrufo, M.F.; Soong, J.L.; Horton, A.J.; Campbell, E.E.; Haddix, M.L.; Wall, D.H.; Parton, W.J. Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss. Nat. Geosci. 2015, 8, 776–779.
Gao, X. Root Exudates of Dominant Plants and the Effects of Their Main Components on Soil Microorganisms in Stipa Breviflora Desert Steppe. Doctoral Dissertation, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Huhhot, China, 2017.
Williams, A.; Langridge, H.; Straathof, A.L.; Muhamadali, H.; Hollywood, K.A.; Goodacre, R.; Vries, F.T. Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species. J. Ecol. 2021, 110, 21–33.
Poirier, V.; Roumet, C.; Munson, A.D. The root of the matter: Linking root traits and soil organic matter stabilization processes. Soil Bio. Biochem. 2018, 120, 246–259.
Guyonnet, J.P.; Cantarel, A.A.M.; Simon, L.; Haichar, F.E. Root exudation rate as functional trait involved in plant nutrient-use strategy classification. Ecol. Evol. 2018, 8, 8573–8581.
Sun, L.; Ataka, M.; Han, M.; Han, Y.; Gan, D.; Xu, T.; Guo, Y.; Zhu, B. Root exudation as a major competitive fine-root functional trait of 18 coexisting species in a subtropical forest. New Phytol. 2021, 229, 259–271.
Kramer-Walter, K.R.; Bellingham, P.J.; Millar, T.R.; Smissen, R.D.; Richardson, S.J.; Laughlin, D.C. Root traits are multidimensional: Specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum. J. Ecol. 2016, 104, 1299–1310.
Wang, R.; Cavagnaro, T.R.; Jiang, Y.; Keitel, C.; Dijkstra, F.A. Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition. J. Ecol. 2021, 109, 3699–3709.
Williams, A.; de Vries, F.T. Plant root exudation under drought: Implications for ecosystem functioning. New Phytol. 2020, 225, 1899–1905.
Kuzyakov, Y. Priming effects: Interactions between living and dead organic matter. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2010, 42, 1363–1371.
Zhou, J.; Guillaume, T.; Wen, Y.; Blagodatskaya, E.; Shahbaz, M.; Zeng, Z.; Peixoto, L.; Zang, H.; Kuzyakov, Y. Frequent carbon input primes decomposition of decadal soil organic matter. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2022, 175, 108850.
Henneron, L.; Cros, C.; Picon-Cochard, C.; Rahimian, V.; Fontaine, S. Plant economic strategies of grassland species control soil carbon dynamics through rhizodeposition. J. Ecol. 2019, 108, 528–545.
Li, J.; Zhang, R.; Cheng, B.; Ye, L.; Li, W.; Shi, X. Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on decomposition and accumulation of soil organic carbon in alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau. Land Degrad. Dev. 2021, 32, 1467–1477.
Han, M.; Sun, L.; Gan, D.; Fu, L.; Zhu, B. Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2020, 151, 108019.
Chen, L.; Liu, L.; Qin, S.; Yang, G.; Fang, K.; Zhu, B.; Kuzyakov, Y.; Chen, P.; Xu, Y.; Yang, Y. Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5112.
Zhang, Q.; Feng, J.; Li, J.; Huang, C.; Shen, Y.; Cheng, W.; Zhu, B. A distinct sensitivity to the priming effect between labile and stable soil organic carbon. New Phytol. 2022, 237, 88–99.
Finzi, A.C.; Abramoff, R.Z.; Spiller, K.S.; Brzostek, E.R.; Darby, B.A.; Kramer, M.A.; Phillips, R.P. Rhizosphere processes are quantitatively important components of terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycles. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2015, 21, 2082–2094.
Zhalnina, K.; Louie, K.B.; Hao, Z.; Mansoori, N.; da Rocha, U.N.; Shi, S.; Cho, H.; Karaoz, U.; Loque, D.; Bowen, B.P.; et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nat. Microbiol. 2018, 3, 470–480.
Qiao, N.; Schaefer, D.; Blagodatskaya, E.; Zou, X.; Xu, X.; Kuzyakov, Y. Labile carbon retention compensates for CO2 released by priming in forest soils. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2014, 20, 1943–1954.
Wang, R.; Bicharanloo, B.; Shirvan, M.B.; Cavagnaro, T.R.; Jiang, Y.; Keitel, C.; Dijkstra, F.A. A novel 13C pulse-labelling method to quantify the contribution of rhizodeposits to soil respiration in a grassland exposed to drought and nitrogen addition. New Phytol. 2021, 230, 857–866.

© Text is available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Upload a video for this entry

Information

Subjects: Ecology

Contributors MDPI registered users' name will be linked to their SciProfiles pages. To register with us, please refer to https://encyclopedia.pub/register :

Xue Lei

Yuting Shen

Jianing Zhao

Jiajia Huang

Hui Wang

Yang Yu

Chunwang Xiao

View Times: 1.2K

Update Date: 17 Feb 2023

Table of Contents

Video Upload Options

Confirm

1. Introduction

2. Root Exudates and Soil Organic Carbon Input

3. Root Exudates and Soil Organic Carbon Efflux

References