Soil minerals affect taxon-specific bacterial growth

Finley, Brianna K.; Mau, Rebecca L.; Hayer, Michaela; Stone, Bram W.; Morrissey, Ember M.; Koch, Benjamin J.; Rasmussen, Craig; Dijkstra, Paul; Schwartz, Egbert; Hungate, Bruce A.

doi:10.1038/s41396-021-01162-y

Title: Soil minerals affect taxon-specific bacterial growth

Journal Article · 19 December 2021 · The ISME Journal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01162-y · OSTI ID:1836591

; Mau, Rebecca L.;

; Stone, Bram W.;

; Koch, Benjamin J.; Rasmussen, Craig; Dijkstra, Paul; Schwartz, Egbert;

Abstract Secondary minerals (clays and metal oxides) are important components of the soil matrix. Clay minerals affect soil carbon persistence and cycling, and they also select for distinct microbial communities. Here we show that soil mineral assemblages—particularly short-range order minerals—affect both bacterial community composition and taxon-specific growth. Three soils with different parent material and presence of short-range order minerals were collected from ecosystems with similar vegetation and climate. These three soils were provided with 18O-labeled water and incubated with or without artificial root exudates or pine needle litter. Quantitative stable isotope probing was used to determine taxon-specific growth. We found that the growth of bacteria varied among soils of different mineral assemblages but found the trend of growth suppression in the presence of short-range order minerals. Relative growth of bacteria declined with increasing concentration of short-range order minerals between 25–36% of taxa present in all soils. Carbon addition in the form of plant litter or root exudates weakly affected relative growth of taxa (p = 0.09) compared to the soil type (p < 0.01). However, both exudate and litter carbon stimulated growth for at least 34% of families in the soils with the most and least short-range order minerals. In the intermediate short-range order soil, fresh carbon reduced growth for more bacterial families than were stimulated. These results highlight how bacterial-mineral-substrate interactions are critical to soil organic carbon processing, and how growth variation in bacterial taxa in these interactions may contribute to soil carbon persistence and loss.

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Research Organization:: Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0020172

OSTI ID:: 1836591

Journal Information:: The ISME Journal, Journal Name: The ISME Journal Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 16; ISSN 1751-7362

Publisher:: Oxford University PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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