Natural soil microbiome variation affects spring foliar phenology with consequences for plant productivity and climate-driven range shifts

Van Nuland, Michael E.; Ware, Ian M.; Schadt, Chris Warren; Yang, Zamin Koo; Bailey, Joseph K.; Schweitzer, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1111/nph.17599

Natural soil microbiome variation affects spring foliar phenology with consequences for plant productivity and climate-driven range shifts

Journal Article · Tue Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · New Phytologist

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17599· OSTI ID:1808161

^[1]; Ware, Ian M. ^[2]; ^[3]; Yang, Zamin Koo ^[4]; Bailey, Joseph K. ^[5]; Schweitzer, Jennifer A. ^[5]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Identifying the potential for natural soil microbial communities to predictably affect complex plant traits is an important frontier in climate change research. Plant phenology varies with environmental and genetic factors, but few studies have examined if the soil microbiome interacts with plant population differentiation to affect phenology and ecosystem function. We compared soil microbial variation in a widespread tree species (Populus angustifolia) with different soil inoculum treatments in a common garden environment to test how the soil microbiome affects spring foliar phenology and subsequent biomass growth. We hypothesized and show that: 1) soil bacterial and fungal communities vary with tree conditioning from different populations and elevations, 2) this soil community variation influences patterns of foliar phenology and plant growth across populations and elevation gradients, and 3) transferring lower elevation plant genotypes to higher elevation soil communities delayed foliar phenology, thereby shortening the growing season and reducing annual biomass production. Our findings show the importance of plant-soil interactions that help shape the timing of tree foliar phenology and productivity. Here, these geographic patterns in plant population x microbiome interactions also broaden our understanding of how soil communities impact plant phenotypic variation across key climate change gradients, with consequences for ecosystem functioning.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1808161

Journal Information:: New Phytologist, Journal Name: New Phytologist Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1; ISSN 0028-646X

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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