Changes in Soil Organic C Fractions and C Pool Stability Are Mediated by C-Degrading Enzymes in Litter Decomposition of Robinia pseudoacacia Plantations

Xu, Miaoping; Zhi, Ruo-chen; Jian, Junnan; Feng, Yongzhong; Han, Xinhui; Zhang, Wei

doi:10.1007/s00248-022-02113-6

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“…Lignocellulose-degrading enzymes are encoded by a variety of functional genes (Detain et al, 2022 ; Wu et al, 2023 ). The production of lignocellulose-degrading enzyme-associated functional genes is greatly influenced by the substrate composition of litter and microbial properties (Xu et al, 2022 ). The higher abundance of functional genes increases the production of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes, which determine the lignocellulosic degradation performance and then influence lignocellulose-degrading products, thus influencing humus and SOC formation (Wu et al, 2023 ).…”

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Effect of forest planting patterns on the formation of soil organic carbon during litter lignocellulose degradation from a microbial perspective

Wu,

Yin,

Fan

et al. 2023

Front. Microbiol.

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Litter decomposition is an important source of soil organic carbon, and it plays a key role in maintaining the stability of forest ecosystems. The microbial mechanism of soil organic carbon (SOC) formation in different urban forest planting patterns during litter lignocellulose degradation is still unclear. The key genes, microbes, and metabolites in the process of lignocellulose degradation and SOC formation were determined by metagenomics and metabolomics in different litter decomposition layers and soil layers in different urban forest planting patterns, including three types of broadleaf forests (BP forests), three types of coniferous forests (CP forests), and two types of mixed coniferous and broadleaf forests (MCBP forests). The results indicated that the cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin concentrations from the undecomposed layer to the totally decomposed layer decreased by 70.07, 86.83, and 73.04% for CP litter; 74.30, 93.80, and 77.55% for BP litter; and 62.51, 48.58, and 90.61% for MCBP litter, respectively. The soil organic carbon of the BP forests and MCBP forests was higher than that of the CP forests by 38.06 and 94.43% for the 0–10 cm soil layer and by 38.55 and 20.87% for the 10–20 cm soil layer, respectively. Additionally, the gene abundances of glycoside hydrolases (GHs) and polysaccharide lyases (PLs) in the BP forests were higher than those in the MCBP forests and CP forests. Amino acid metabolism, sugar metabolism, TCA metabolism, and cAMP signaling metabolism were mainly between the CP forests and BP forests, while the TCA cycle, pyruvate metabolism, phenylalanine metabolism, and tyrosine metabolism were mainly between the BP forests and MCBP forests during litter decomposition. Additionally, ammonia nitrogen and hemicellulose were key factors driving SOC formation in the CP forests, while ammonia nitrogen, hemicellulose, and lignocellulose-degrading genes were key factors driving SOC formation in the BP forests. For the MCBP forests, cellulose, pH, ammonia nitrogen, and lignin were key factors driving SOC formation. Our findings revealed that the BP forests and MCBP forests had stronger lignocellulose degradation performance in the formation of SOC. This study provided a theoretical basis for the flow and transformation of nutrients in different urban forest management patterns.

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