Crops for Carbon Farming

Jansson, Christer; Faiola, Celia; Wingler, Astrid; Zhu, Xin-Guang; Kravchenko, Alexandra; Graaff, Marie‐Anne de; Ogden, Aaron J.; Handakumbura, Pubudu; Werner, Christiane; Beckles, Diane M.

doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.636709

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“…One observer estimates that half of all areas in improved pastures have been degraded (López-Hernández et al, 2005). Therefore, these degraded areas represent another opportunity to increase SOC stocks through pasture renovation for regenerative agriculture (Newton et al, 2020) or carbon farming (Jansson et al, 2021).…”

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Soil carbon storage potential of acid soils of Colombia's Eastern High Plains

Hyman

Castro

Silva

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Improving soil organic carbon (SOC) storage enhances soil quality and mitigates climate change. Agricultural and livestock specialists increasingly view tropical grasslands as a potential target for storing more soil carbon while boosting productivity. Earlier research in the 1990s showed the promise of improving SOC storage in the Eastern High Plains of Colombia. But these studies were limited to two experimental stations, without focusing on conditions on farms or under variable management. This research examined whether those early studies did indeed reflect possibilities for improving SOC storage and livestock productivity. We measured SOC stocks at one of the experiment stations from previous research and on farms throughout the study area in Colombia's Eastern High Plains. Complementarily our team sampled other predominant land uses to map SOC storage across the nearly 1 million ha study area. Using that information, we also constructed scenarios suggesting changes in SOC and productivity based on land-use changes. The high SOC accumulation found at experimental sites in the 1990s declined 24 years later. However, SOC storage was over 27 Mg ha−1 yr−1 higher than reference native savanna sites, with an accumulation rate of 0.96 Mg ha−1 yr−1. On farms under variable management, improved pastures stored 10 Mg ha−1 more SOC than degraded pastures or native savanna. For the whole region, we estimate that carbon storage observed across soils and land use of the 1 million ha study area could store 0.08 Gt of carbon down to 1 m depth, with wide variation across the region. While the SOC measured in grasslands in the early 1990s did not persist under inadequate management over the period of two decades, the potential to accumulate SOC of Colombia's Eastern High Plains through appropriate management is high, pointing to a sustainable livestock strategy that boosts productivity and reduces emissions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Soil carbon storage potential of acid soils of Colombia's Eastern High Plains

Hyman

Castro

Silva

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…According to current ecological theories, photosynthesized carbon exudation serves as a chemical currency and promotes plant productivity by enhancing nutrient acquisition and water-holding capacity, facilitating efficient drainage and aeration, and providing substrates for microbes [ 23 ]. In addition to improving soil health, the allocation of fixed carbon to the root exudation process reduces global warming caused by rising CO 2 levels in the atmosphere [ 24 ]. Sugar and organic compound exudation into the rhizosphere can stimulate the decomposition of previously stabilized inherited soil organic matter and fosters nutrient acquisition and soil aggregation [ 25 ].…”

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Tapping into Plant–Microbiome Interactions through the Lens of Multi-Omics Techniques

Mishra

Sudalaimuthuasari

Hazzouri

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Cells

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This review highlights the pivotal role of root exudates in the rhizosphere, especially the interactions between plants and microbes and between plants and plants. Root exudates determine soil nutrient mobilization, plant nutritional status, and the communication of plant roots with microbes. Root exudates contain diverse specialized signaling metabolites (primary and secondary). The spatial behavior of these metabolites around the root zone strongly influences rhizosphere microorganisms through an intimate compatible interaction, thereby regulating complex biological and ecological mechanisms. In this context, we reviewed the current understanding of the biological phenomenon of allelopathy, which is mediated by phytotoxic compounds (called allelochemicals) released by plants into the soil that affect the growth, survival, development, ecological infestation, and intensification of other plant species and microbes in natural communities or agricultural systems. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS), such as metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, have opened the possibility of better understanding the effects of secreted metabolites on the composition and activity of root-associated microbial communities. Nevertheless, understanding the role of secretory metabolites in microbiome manipulation can assist in designing next-generation microbial inoculants for targeted disease mitigation and improved plant growth using the synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) tool. Besides a discussion on different approaches, we highlighted the advantages of conjugation of metabolomic approaches with genetic design (metabolite-based genome-wide association studies) in dissecting metabolome diversity and understanding the genetic components of metabolite accumulation. Recent advances in the field of metabolomics have expedited comprehensive and rapid profiling and discovery of novel bioactive compounds in root exudates. In this context, we discussed the expanding array of metabolomics platforms for metabolome profiling and their integration with multivariate data analysis, which is crucial to explore the biosynthesis pathway, as well as the regulation of associated pathways at the gene, transcript, and protein levels, and finally their role in determining and shaping the rhizomicrobiome.

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“…Since plants store energy through photosynthesis and use the energy for growth and reproduction (Jansson et al 2021), light quality can affect plant productivity (Yavari et al 2021). The photosynthetic reactions according to light quality are regulated by various physiological variables including the leaf temperature, transpiration rate, photosynthetic quantum efficiency, and intercellular CO 2 partial pressure (Galle et al 2009;Kim et al 2013;Simon et al 2018;Vilfan et al 2019).…”

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The effects of LED light quality on ecophysiological and growth responses of Epilobium hirsutum L., a Korean endangered plant, in a smart farm facility

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Background: Epilobium hirsutum L. is designated as an endangered plant in South Korea located in Asia, due to the destruction of its habitats through the development of wetlands. Therefore, in this study, in order to find a light condition suitable for the growth and ecophysiological responses of Epilobium hirsutum L., those of this plant under treatment with various light qualities in a smart farm were measured. Results: In order to examine the changes in the physiological and growth responses of Epilobium hirsutum L. according to the light qualities, the treatment with light qualities of the smart farm was carried out using the red light: blue light irradiation time ratios of 1:1, 1:1/2, and 1:1/5 and a red light: blue light: white light irradiation time ratio of 1:1:1. As a result, the ecophysiological responses (difference between leaf temperature and atmospheric temperature, transpiration rate, net photosynthetic rate, intercellular CO 2 partial pressure, photosynthetic quantum efficiency) to light qualities appeared differently according to the treatments with light qualities. The increase in the blue light ratio increased the difference between the leaf temperature and the atmospheric temperature and the photosynthetic quantum efficiency and decreased the transpiration rate and the intercellular CO 2 partial pressure. On the other hand, the white light treatment increased the transpiration rate and intercellular CO 2 partial pressure and decreased the temperature difference between the leaf temperature and the ambient temperature and photosynthetic quantum efficiency. Conclusions: The light condition suitable for the propagation by the stolons, which are the propagules of Epilobium hirsutum L., in the smart farm, is red, blue and white mixed light with high net photosynthetic rates and low difference between leaf temperature and atmospheric temperature.

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Crops for Carbon Farming

Cited by 80 publications

References 109 publications

Soil carbon storage potential of acid soils of Colombia's Eastern High Plains

Soil carbon storage potential of acid soils of Colombia's Eastern High Plains

Tapping into Plant–Microbiome Interactions through the Lens of Multi-Omics Techniques

The effects of LED light quality on ecophysiological and growth responses of Epilobium hirsutum L., a Korean endangered plant, in a smart farm facility

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