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Offspring of plants exposed to elevated or ambient CO2 differ in their impacts on soil nitrification in a common garden experiment
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Bowatte, S and Newton, PCD and Hill, A-M and Theobald, P and Luo, D and Hovenden, M and Osanai, Y, Offspring of plants exposed to elevated or ambient CO2 differ in their impacts on soil nitrification in a common garden experiment, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 62 pp. 134-136. ISSN 0038-0717 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 Elsevier
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.014
Abstract
Long-term exposure to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) may select for different plant phenotypes with consequences for microbial associations and functions. We collected seeds from two grasses that had grown in a Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) experiment for 5 and 11 years, and grew them in a common garden to assess how elevated CO2 affected the rate of nitrification in rhizosphere soil. The comparison was made in a 'common-garden' so that differences could be ascribed to inherent changes in the plant populations. We found that seed of both species from the ambient populations produced plants that had similar rates of nitrification; however, seed from the elevated CO2 population produced ryegrass plants with a significantly greater nitrification rate and browntop plants with a significantly lower rate than the ambient population. These differences were not related to changes in root mass so represent a fundamental shift in plant/microbe interactions under elevated CO2.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | soil nitrification, elevated CO2, soil microbes, nitrogen availability |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Ecology |
Research Field: | Terrestrial ecology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
UTAS Author: | Hovenden, M (Professor Mark Hovenden) |
UTAS Author: | Osanai, Y (Ms Yui Osanai) |
ID Code: | 85915 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP0984779) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2013-08-14 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-03 |
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