Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1007/s11104-025-08267-9
Margot Trinquier, Eric Lecloux, Bruno Patrick, Virginie Gasciolli, Claire Jouany, Christophe Roux, Benoit Lefebvre, Agnès Ardanuy
Background and aims Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play an essential role in plant nutrition in both natural and agro-ecosystems. However, how soil nutrient availability simultaneously regulates AMF diversity and contribution to plant nutrition, requires more attention. We hypothesised that the interaction between the availability of key soil macronutrients phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) regulates AMF contribution to wheat nutrition and that nutrient availability will simultaneously influence AMF community composition. Methods We tested this using a unique long-term P fertilisation trial, sampling wheat roots across two growing seasons. Expression of wheat mycorrhizal nutrient transporters was quantified by RT-qPCR and AMF communities were characterised by ITS2 metabarcoding. Complementary experiments under controlled conditions examined how the interaction between P and N regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal function in plant nutrition. Results Field-grown wheat showed campaign-specific effects of P fertilisation on AMF colonisation and nutrient transporter expression, which coincided with shifts in plant N status. Controlled experiments confirmed that colonisation depends on the limitation of either P or N, but that the regulation of peri-arbuscular phosphate, ammonium and nitrate transporters depended on the limiting nutrient. AMF communities also responded to soil P availability, with the genus Funneliformis consistently dominating under high P conditions. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate that P and N availability jointly shape root AMF communities and regulate their nutritive function in wheat. The combination of community profiling and mycorrhizal molecular markers provides a valuable approach for understanding the AMF contribution to plant nutrition across agroecosystems, and therefore can be used for optimising agroecological practices.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1007/s11104-025-08245-1
Mark B. Peoples, Xiaoxi Li, John A. Kirkegaard, Roger D. Armstrong, Ignacio A. Ciampitti, Angelinus C. Franke, Ken E. Giller, James R. Hunt, Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Jagdish K. Ladha, Gilles Lemaire, Long Li, Francisco Palmero, Moritz Reckling, Fernando Salvagiotti, Tesfaye S. Sida, Antony D. Swan, Siyu Zhang, David F. Herridge
Background Cereal crops dominate arable agriculture and underpin global food supply. Cereal grain yield is closely related to crop nitrogen (N) uptake. However, excessive inputs of N fertiliser in cereal production systems can have negative environmental consequences and represent high financial risk for farmers. Scope This review explores opportunities to reduce the current reliance of the global staples, wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) and maize ( Zea mays ), on N fertiliser by diversifying cereal-based cropping systems with legumes, in both time (rotation) and space (via intercropping). Increases in cereal grain yield and N uptake resulting from the inclusion of legumes in wheat and maize cropping systems are examined across different geographic regions. The role of grain legumes and legume-based forages, cover-crops and green manures is described for the 15 countries responsible for producing > 70% of the world’s wheat and maize and consuming > 80% of the global applications of N fertiliser to these two cereals. Estimates of the contributions from biological N 2 fixation and legume residual N to cropping soils are provided for individual countries and compared to the N offtake in wheat and maize grain and the quantities of N fertiliser applied. The potential increased area of legumes required for the returns of legume N to match the current amounts of N removed in grain or supplied as fertiliser is assessed for each country, and the strategies that might be necessary to encourage farmers to increase the frequency of legumes used in cereal-dominated cropping systems are outlined.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08317-w
Agnieszka Ostrowska, Mirosław Tyrka, Anna Fiust, Karolina Urban, Tomasz Hura
{"title":"Heterotrophic and autotrophic seedlings of the same genotype of spring triticale exhibit different response to drought and early rehydration","authors":"Agnieszka Ostrowska, Mirosław Tyrka, Anna Fiust, Karolina Urban, Tomasz Hura","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08317-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08317-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11104-025-08198-5
Sandamali Harshani Kumari Hathurusinghe, Anushree Joshi, Min-Ji Kim, Jae-Ho Shin
{"title":"Mechanistic insights into perlite–alginate encapsulation of bio fertilizer formulant: impacts on rhizosphere microbiome and cucumber growth","authors":"Sandamali Harshani Kumari Hathurusinghe, Anushree Joshi, Min-Ji Kim, Jae-Ho Shin","doi":"10.1007/s11104-025-08198-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-08198-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11104-025-08261-1
Agustín Núñez, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Meagan Schipanski
{"title":"Shifts in soil organic carbon dynamics during the transition from irrigated to dryland cropping systems","authors":"Agustín Núñez, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Meagan Schipanski","doi":"10.1007/s11104-025-08261-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-08261-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08308-x
Minghe Nie, Ying Lu, Xiuting Luo, Guohui Wang, Hongbin Ma, Yan Shen
{"title":"Soil properties and biodiversity co-regulate ecosystem multifunctionality of desert steppe degradation in the arid wind and sandy area of northwest China","authors":"Minghe Nie, Ying Lu, Xiuting Luo, Guohui Wang, Hongbin Ma, Yan Shen","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08308-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08308-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"290 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146095954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-29DOI: 10.1007/s11104-026-08305-0
Yang Liu, Saifei Li, Pengfei Liu, Quan Shi, Chen He, Mukan Ji
{"title":"The interplay of plants and microbial communities in modulating dissolved organic matter dynamics in a Tibetan glacier forefield","authors":"Yang Liu, Saifei Li, Pengfei Liu, Quan Shi, Chen He, Mukan Ji","doi":"10.1007/s11104-026-08305-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-026-08305-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20223,"journal":{"name":"Plant and Soil","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}