Plant-N-Cycling Microorganisms Interactions in the Rhizosphere
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Microbe Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 2974
Special Issue Editors
2. Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
Interests: environmental genomics; soil microbial community ecology; N and C cycle interactions; soil–plant–microbe interactions; greenhouse gas mitigation
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Interests: rhizosphere–microbial interactions; soil nitrogen cycling; biological nitrification inhibition; nitrification; ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for all life forms and the major limiting nutrient in plant growth. To satisfy the N demand of plants, huge amounts of N fertilizers are applied to agricultural soils. However, up to half or even more of the applied N is lost to the environment, causing adverse effects on pollution, climate change, and human health. Therefore, reducing anthropogenic pressures on the N cycle remains one of the most challenging problems and a crucial goal in N research.
Plants play an active role in shaping the structure and function of N cycling microbial communities that inhabit the rhizosphere, but a mechanistic understanding of these interactions is still lacking. Addressing this issue, however, is essential to achieving better soil N management and improving the sustainability of agriculture.
In this Special Issue, we encourage submissions of theory-driven studies that provide mechanistic insights into the relationships between plants and N-cycling microorganisms as they occur in and are affected by the rhizosphere. Due to the interconnections among N cycling microorganisms and the processes they carry out, holistic studies embracing such complex relationships and their spatiotemporal variability are most welcome.
Prof. Dr. Eiko Kuramae
Dr. Pierfrancesco Nardi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant–N–microorganism interactions
- composition and function of nitrogen microbial communities in the rhizosphere
- arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
- plant traits and soil N cycling
- rhizosphere food web
