Article
Environmental Sciences
Hang Jing, Min Meng, Guoliang Wang, Guobin Liu
Summary: The study revealed that from semi-arid to semi-humid forests, soil aggregate stability increased with the proportion of macro-aggregates, leading to higher contents of SOC and GRSP in the soil. Soil properties had a greater impact on binding agents than plant biomass.
JOURNAL OF ARID LAND
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Changyongming Cai, Fei Huang, Yaying Yang, Suqin Yu, Sujia Wang, Yulu Fan, Qiong Wang, Wei Liu
Summary: This study revealed that increasing urbanization intensity can significantly reduce the GRSP content of different sized aggregates. Moreover, the GRSP content significantly promoted SOC sequestration, and the EE-GRSP content more significantly promoted soil aggregate stability than that of the T-GRSP.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Ci Deng, Ying-Ning Zou, Abeer Hashem, Kamil Kuca, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah, Qiang-Sheng Wu
Summary: This study visually analyzed the literature on GRSP in the C field from 1999 to 2022 using CiteSpace software and the core collection of Web of Science. The study found that research on GRSP in the C field could be divided into an initial stage, a steady stage, and an explosive stage. The Chinese Academy of Sciences had the most publications, and the United States, China, and India were the leading nations in the C field of GRSP.
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN AGRICULTURE
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Wei-Jia Wu, Ying-Ning Zou, Abeer Hashem, Graciela Dolores Avila-Quezada, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Qiang-Sheng Wu
Summary: This study analyzed the effects of Rhizoglomus intraradices on plant growth, root morphology, leaf chlorophyll and gas exchange, sugar concentrations, and soil nutrients, aggregate distribution, and stability in marigold, maize, white clover, and vetch plants. The results showed that AMF inoculation significantly increased the chlorophyll index, net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, and transpiration rate of the plants. In addition, AMF significantly increased the soil organic carbon, available potassium content, and glomalin-related soil protein levels, as well as the stability of water-stable aggregates in all four plants.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yu Zhang, Lingbo Dong, Zhouping Shangguan
Summary: Soil aggregation and structural stability are crucial for soil organic carbon sequestration. Appropriate nitrogen addition can promote arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to secrete glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), enhancing the formation of soil aggregates and the physical protection of organic carbon, thereby improving soil organic carbon stability and carbon sequestration capacity.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Xiao-Qing Liu, Ya-Chao Xie, Yan Li, Li Zheng, Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah, Wiwiek Harsonowati, Qiang-Sheng Wu
Summary: This study found that the foliar application of easily extractable GRSP (EE-GRSP) has significant effects on fruit quality and soil structural changes in citrus varieties. EE-GRSP can enhance root mycorrhizal fungal colonization and soil hyphal length, improve external and internal quality of fruits, increase soil available nutrients, and regulate soil structure.
Article
Agronomy
An-Qi Lei, Qing-Hua Yang, Ying Zhang, Wen-Yue Liao, Ya-Chao Xie, Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Abeer Hashem, Mashael Daghash Alqahtani, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Qiang-Sheng Wu, Yi Zhang
Summary: This study analyzed the effects of Easily extractable glomalin-related soil protein (EEG) and found that it can improve soil fertility and fruit quality when used alone. However, when combined with agronomic practices, the positive effects of EEG may be reduced or suppressed.
Article
Agronomy
Wan-Xia He, Qiang-Sheng Wu, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Pandiyan Muthuramalingam, Al-Bandari Fahad Al-Arjani, Ying-Ning Zou
Summary: This study found that inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can promote the growth and root morphology improvement of V. villosa plants. The symbiotic fungi also have positive impacts on sugars, soil fertility, and root structure, which contribute to the overall improvement of plant growth and soil properties.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Fangli Wang, Yu Liu, Bin Liang, Jun Liu, Haiying Zong, Xiaohong Guo, Xuexia Wang, Ningning Song
Summary: This study assessed the impacts of plastic film mulching and N fertilization on the soil aggregate distribution and associated OC and N fractions in a 10-year continuous cucumber cabbage rotation soil. The results showed that plastic film mulching alleviated the impact of N fertilization on soil aggregate stability and resulted in higher contents of soil OC and dissolved OC in macroaggregates.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Beitong Huang, Li Zhang, Yaping Cao, Yurong Yang, Ping Wang, Zhenxin Li, Yong Lin
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between soil organic carbon fractions and contents, AMF growth and colonization status, GRSP contents and CPMI in different land-use types in Songnen Grassland, Northeast China. The results showed that SOC content and readily oxidizable organic carbon content varied among different land-use types, with woodland having the highest values. The structural equation modeling revealed that land-use types influenced CPMI through GRSP content and hyphal length density of AMF.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Zihao Liu, Ruirui Chen, Junhua Wang, Junbo Liu, Minghui Li, Xiangui Lin, Junli Hu
Summary: Soil arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play crucial roles in agroecosystem functioning. However, the effects of different carbon input levels on AM fungal community composition and ecological function are not well studied. This eight-year field experiment showed that fertilization significantly influenced the composition of AM fungal communities. Long-term fertilization increased AM fungal diversity, alkaline phosphatase activity, and glomalin-related soil protein concentration, which were closely related to soil organic C and/or pH. Moreover, low C input level (LCF) was better at promoting AM fungal diversity, while high C input level (HCF) negatively affected mycorrhizal colonization and the ratio of total glomalin-related soil protein to soil organic C.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ye Wang, Chun He, Yutian Shi, Hui Li, Yabin Tang, Bohao Chen, Qin Ke, Lichao Wu, Lijun Chen
Summary: The relationship between glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) and soil aggregation has been extensively studied, but the effects of GRSP on soil aggregate stability and macronutrient accumulation in short-term Eucalyptus plantations are still unclear.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Shasha Luo, Shaojie Wang, Haijing Zhang, Jiaxu Zhang, Chunjie Tian
Summary: The study found that PF treatment significantly reduced soil microbial interactions, especially in megaaggregates. The keystone of the microbial network shifted from 0319-6A21 (Nitrospirae) to Gsoil-1167 (Actinobacteria) after PF. PF decreased soil aggregate stability and microbial interactions in black soil in a subhumid area.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
M. E. Malobane, A. D. Nciizah, L. C. Bam, F. N. Mudau, I. I. C. Wakindiki
Summary: This study aimed to quantify the effect of conservation agriculture on soil aggregation in low organic carbon soils, showing that no-till, crop rotation, and crop residue management can enhance soil quality and impact aggregate stability and microstructure.
SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhanjun Liu, Mingda Wang, Jianbin Zhou, Zhujun Chen, Xinpeng Xu, Yuanjun Zhu
Summary: This study examines the effects of different mulching and fertilization methods on soil aggregation and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. The results show that straw mulch has a greater positive effect on soil aggregation and C and N stabilization compared to plastic mulch. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of the macroaggregate-occluded microaggregate fraction for evaluating soil C and N dynamics.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)