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SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 100, 期 -, 页码 66-73出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.05.019
关键词
Soil carbon; Microbial biomass; Chloroform fumigation extraction; HPLC-FTIR; ESI-FT-ICR-MS; HPLC-IRMS
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资金
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)/Max Planck Society
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)/German Research Foundation
- foundation ZwillenbergTietz Stiftung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)/German Research Foundation as part of the collaborative research centre (CRC) AquaDiva [1076]
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [655240]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh020008] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [ceh020008] Funding Source: UKRI
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [655240] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
Microbial contribution to the maintenance and turnover of soil organic matter is significant. Yet, we do not have a thorough understanding of how biochemical composition of soil microbial biomass is related to carbon turnover and persistence of different microbial components. Using a suite of state-of-the-art analytical techniques, we investigated the molecular characteristics of extractable microbial biomass and linked it to, its carbon turnover time. A (CO2)-C-13 plant pulse labelling experiment was used to trace plant carbon into rhizosphere soil microbial biomass, which was obtained by chloroform fumigation extraction (CFE). C-13 content in molecular size classes of extracted microbial compounds was analysed using size exclusion chromatography (SEC) coupled online to high performance liquid chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (SEC-HPLC-IRMS). Molecular characterization of microbial compounds was performed using complementary approaches, namely SEC-HPLC coupled to Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (SEC-HPLC-FTIR) and electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (ESI-FT-ICR-MS). SEC-HPLC-FTIR suggests that mid to high molecular weight (MW) microbial compounds were richer in aliphatic CH bonds, carbohydrate-like compounds and possibly P=O derivatives from phospholipids. On the contrary, the lower size range was characterized by more oxidised compounds with hydroxyl, carbonyl, ether and/or carboxyl groups. ESI-FT-ICR-MS suggests that microbial compounds were largely aliphatic and richer in N than the background detrital material. Both molecular characterization tools suggest that CFE derived microbial biomass was largely lipid, carbohydrate and protein derived. SEC-HPLC-IRMS analysis revealed that C-13 enrichment decreased with increasing MW of microbial compounds and the turnover time was deduced as 12.8 +/- 0.6, 18.5 +/- 0.6 and 22.9 +/- 0.7 days for low, mid and high MW size classes, respectively. We conclude that low MW compounds represent the rapidly turned-over metabolite fraction of extractable soil microbial biomass consisting of organic acids, alcohols, amino acids and sugars; whereas, larger structural compounds are part of the cell envelope (likely membrane lipids, proteins or polysaccharides) with a much lower renewal rate. This relation of microbial carbon turnover to its molecular size, structure and composition thus highlights the significance of cellular biochemistry in determining the microbial contribution to soil carbon cycling and specifically soil organic matter formation. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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