Unveiling the crucial role of soil microorganisms in carbon cycling: A review

H Wu, H Cui, C Fu, R Li, F Qi, Z Liu, G Yang… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil microorganisms, by actively participating in the decomposition and transformation of
organic matter through diverse metabolic pathways, play a pivotal role in carbon cycling …

Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

NW Sokol, E Slessarev, GL Marschmann… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways

T Camenzind, K Mason-Jones, I Mansour… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soil organic matter is the dominant carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems, and its
management is of increasing policy relevance. Soil microbes are the main drivers of soil …

HT-SIP: a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline identifies cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

EE Nuccio, SJ Blazewicz, M Lafler, AN Campbell… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Linking the identity of wild microbes with their ecophysiological traits and
environmental functions is a key ambition for microbial ecologists. Of many techniques that …

Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling

EM Morrissey, J Kane, BM Tripathi, MSI Rion… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil carbon feedbacks to global change are uncertain, and the biological processes that
govern soil organic matter decomposition are not resolved in current ecosystem models …

Active virus-host interactions at sub-freezing temperatures in Arctic peat soil

G Trubl, JA Kimbrel, J Liquet-Gonzalez, EE Nuccio… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Winter carbon loss in northern ecosystems is estimated to be greater than the
average growing season carbon uptake and is primarily driven by microbial decomposers …

The predatory soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus combines a Tad-and an atypical type 3-like protein secretion system to kill bacterial cells

S Thiery, P Turowski, JE Berleman, C Kaimer - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Predatory Myxobacteria employ a multilayered predation strategy to kill and lyse soil
microorganisms. Aiming to dissect the mechanism of contact-dependent killing of bacteria …

Predictions of rhizosphere microbiome dynamics with a genome-informed and trait-based energy budget model

GL Marschmann, J Tang, K Zhalnina, U Karaoz… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Soil microbiomes are highly diverse, and to improve their representation in biogeochemical
models, microbial genome data can be leveraged to infer key functional traits. By integrating …

Methane-derived carbon flows into host–virus networks at different trophic levels in soil

S Lee, ET Sieradzki, AM Nicolas… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The concentration of atmospheric methane (CH4) continues to increase with microbial
communities controlling soil–atmosphere fluxes. While there is substantial knowledge of the …

Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil

JL Kane, JB Kotcon, ZB Freedman, EM Morrissey - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soil bacteria and fungi mediate terrestrial biogeochemical cycling, but we know relatively
little about how trophic interactions influence their community composition, diversity, and …