Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation
ABSTRACT Mitigating climate change in soil ecosystems involves complex plant and microbial processes regulating carbon pools and flows. Here, we advocate for the use of soil microbiome interventions to help increase soil carbon stocks and curb greenhouse gas emissions from managed soils. Direct inte...
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| author | Gwyn A. Beattie Anna Edlund Nwadiuto Esiobu Jack Gilbert Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen Janet K. Jansson Paul Jensen Marco Keiluweit Jay T. Lennon Jennifer Martiny Vanessa R. Minnis Dianne Newman Raquel Peixoto Christopher Schadt Jan Roelof van der Meer |
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| description | ABSTRACT Mitigating climate change in soil ecosystems involves complex plant and microbial processes regulating carbon pools and flows. Here, we advocate for the use of soil microbiome interventions to help increase soil carbon stocks and curb greenhouse gas emissions from managed soils. Direct interventions include the introduction of microbial strains, consortia, phage, and soil transplants, whereas indirect interventions include managing soil conditions or additives to modulate community composition or its activities. Approaches to increase soil carbon stocks using microbially catalyzed processes include increasing carbon inputs from plants, promoting soil organic matter (SOM) formation, and reducing SOM turnover and production of diverse greenhouse gases. Marginal or degraded soils may provide the greatest opportunities for enhancing global soil carbon stocks. Among the many knowledge gaps in this field, crucial gaps include the processes influencing the transformation of plant-derived soil carbon inputs into SOM and the identity of the microbes and microbial activities impacting this transformation. As a critical step forward, we encourage broadening the current widespread screening of potentially beneficial soil microorganisms to encompass functions relevant to stimulating soil carbon stocks. Moreover, in developing these interventions, we must consider the potential ecological ramifications and uncertainties, such as incurred by the widespread introduction of homogenous inoculants and consortia, and the need for site-specificity given the extreme variation among soil habitats. Incentivization and implementation at large spatial scales could effectively harness increases in soil carbon stocks, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cdf81817b8a74bd5b8dcc192e2174e112025-01-21T14:00:28ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologymSystems2379-50772025-01-0110110.1128/msystems.01129-24Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigationGwyn A. Beattie0Anna Edlund1Nwadiuto Esiobu2Jack Gilbert3Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen4Janet K. Jansson5Paul Jensen6Marco Keiluweit7Jay T. Lennon8Jennifer Martiny9Vanessa R. Minnis10Dianne Newman11Raquel Peixoto12Christopher Schadt13Jan Roelof van der Meer14Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USAOath Inc., Mill Valley, California, USADepartment of Biological Sciences, Microbiome Innovation Cluster, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USADepartment of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USADepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkBiological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USAScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USASoil Biogeochemistry Group, Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USASchool of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USADepartment of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USADivision of Biology & Biological Engineering and Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USABiological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi ArabiaBiosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USADepartment of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandABSTRACT Mitigating climate change in soil ecosystems involves complex plant and microbial processes regulating carbon pools and flows. Here, we advocate for the use of soil microbiome interventions to help increase soil carbon stocks and curb greenhouse gas emissions from managed soils. Direct interventions include the introduction of microbial strains, consortia, phage, and soil transplants, whereas indirect interventions include managing soil conditions or additives to modulate community composition or its activities. Approaches to increase soil carbon stocks using microbially catalyzed processes include increasing carbon inputs from plants, promoting soil organic matter (SOM) formation, and reducing SOM turnover and production of diverse greenhouse gases. Marginal or degraded soils may provide the greatest opportunities for enhancing global soil carbon stocks. Among the many knowledge gaps in this field, crucial gaps include the processes influencing the transformation of plant-derived soil carbon inputs into SOM and the identity of the microbes and microbial activities impacting this transformation. As a critical step forward, we encourage broadening the current widespread screening of potentially beneficial soil microorganisms to encompass functions relevant to stimulating soil carbon stocks. Moreover, in developing these interventions, we must consider the potential ecological ramifications and uncertainties, such as incurred by the widespread introduction of homogenous inoculants and consortia, and the need for site-specificity given the extreme variation among soil habitats. Incentivization and implementation at large spatial scales could effectively harness increases in soil carbon stocks, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.01129-24microbial communitiesclimate changesoil organic matterinoculantssoil healthplant growth promotion |
| spellingShingle | Gwyn A. Beattie Anna Edlund Nwadiuto Esiobu Jack Gilbert Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen Janet K. Jansson Paul Jensen Marco Keiluweit Jay T. Lennon Jennifer Martiny Vanessa R. Minnis Dianne Newman Raquel Peixoto Christopher Schadt Jan Roelof van der Meer Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation mSystems microbial communities climate change soil organic matter inoculants soil health plant growth promotion |
| title | Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation |
| title_full | Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation |
| title_fullStr | Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation |
| title_short | Soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation |
| title_sort | soil microbiome interventions for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation |
| topic | microbial communities climate change soil organic matter inoculants soil health plant growth promotion |
| url | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.01129-24 |
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