Rhizosphere priming of barley with and without root hairs
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The influence of plant roots and the associated rhizosphere activities on decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM), the rhizosphere priming effect, has emerged as a crucial mechanism regulating global carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles. However, the role of root morphology in controlling the rhizosphere priming effect remains largely unknown. To investigate the link between root hairs, a critical part of the entire root morphology, and the rhizosphere priming effect, we grew a barley wild type and a barley mutant without root hairs in a greenhouse and continuously labeled them with 13C-depleted CO2. Soil CO2 efflux was measured during tillering and head-emergence stages of plant growth. Based on its d 13C signature, total CO2 was partitioned for root-derived and SOM-derived CO2, and the SOM decomposition primed in the rhizosphere was calculated. Soil microbial biomass C and N, and the activities of six extracellular enzymes (b-cellobiohydrolase, b-glucosidase, acid phosphatase, b-xylosidase, leucinaminopeptidase, and N-acetyl-b-glucosaminidase) were measured to test the effects of root hairs. During the early stage of development (tillering), when plants were sufficiently supplied with nutrients, the barley mutant without root hairs produced more shoot biomass. In contrast, high C costs for root-hair formation likely reduced the growth of the barley wild type. At this stage, the wild type with regular root hairs produced a positive rhizosphere priming effect (69% increase), but the mutant without root hairs produced a negative priming effect on SOM decomposition (28% decline). At the heademergence stage, when nutrients were scarce, plant biomass production of the mutant was reduced, probably due to inefficient nutrient uptake in the absence of root hairs. At this stage, both barley types produced positive rhizosphere priming effects (72% and 209% increase for the wild type and the mutant, respectively) and the microbial biomass was higher for both planted soils compared to the tillering stage. Extracellular enzymes responsible for the decomposition of stable SOM had higher activities in cases of positive priming effects. Overall, root hairs played an important role in regulating rhizosphere priming. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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