{"id":1725,"date":"2020-06-20T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenaexperiment.uni-jena.de\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:49:09","slug":"new-publication-from-dietrich-et-al-at-journal-of-plant-ecology-diverse-plant-mixtures-sustain-a-greater-arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-spore-viability-than-monocultures-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/new-publication-from-dietrich-et-al-at-journal-of-plant-ecology-diverse-plant-mixtures-sustain-a-greater-arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-spore-viability-than-monocultures-after-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication from Dietrich et al. in Journal of Plant Ecology: Diverse plant mixtures sustain a greater arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi spore viability than monocultures after 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"206504874\">Abstract:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4>\nAims<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">Intensive  land management practices can compromise soil biodiversity, thus  jeopardizing long-term soil productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi  (AMF) play a pivotal role in promoting soil productivity through  obligate symbiotic associations with plants. However, it is not clear  how properties of plant communities, especially species richness and  composition influence the viability of AMF populations in soils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Methods<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">Here  we test whether monocultures of eight plant species from different  plant functional groups, or a diverse mixture of plant species, maintain  more viable AMF propagules. To address this question, we extracted AMF  spores from 12-year old plant monocultures and mixtures and paired  single AMF spores with single plants in a factorial design crossing AMF  spore origin with plant species identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-11-1024x397.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1727\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-11-1024x397.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-11-300x116.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-11-768x298.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/image-11.png 1173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Associations between the viability of AMF spores obtained in the climate chamber experiment and the attributes of the plant communities, by<br> which they had been conditioned for over a decade in the field experiment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>Important Findings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">AMF  spores from diverse plant mixtures were more successful at colonizing  multiple plant species and plant individuals than AMF spores from plant  monocultures. Furthermore, we found evidence that AMF spores originating  from diverse mixtures more strongly increased biomass than AMF from  monocultures in the legume <em>Trifolium repens<\/em> L. AMF viability  and ability to interact with many plant species were greater when AMF  spores originated from 12-year old mixtures than monocultures. Our  results show for the first time that diverse plant communities can  sustain AMF viability in soils and demonstrate the potential of diverse  plant communities to maintain viable AMF propagules that are a key  component to soil health and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p> Peter Dietrich, Christiane Roscher, Adam Thomas Clark, Nico Eisenhauer,  Bernhard Schmid, Cameron Wagg,  Diverse plant mixtures sustain a greater  arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi spore viability than monocultures after 12  years, <em>Journal of Plant Ecology<\/em>, Volume 13, Issue 4, August 2020, Pages 478\u2013488, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jpe\/rtaa037\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jpe\/rtaa037<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Aims Intensive land management practices can compromise soil biodiversity, thus jeopardizing long-term soil productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a pivotal role in promoting soil productivity through obligate symbiotic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-jena-experiment.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}