Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Modifies Mostly the Metabolic Active Rhizosphere Soil Microbiome in the Giessen FACE Experiment

• David Rosado-Porto ^{[3] [5]} ; Stefan Ratering ^[3] ; Massimiliano Cardinale ^[1] ; Corinna Maisinger ^[3] ; Gerald Moser ^[4] ; Marianna Deppe ^[4] ; Christoph Müller ^{[4] [2]} ; Sylvia Schnell ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Salento

     University of Salento

     Lecce, Italia

     
  2. [2] University College Dublin

     University College Dublin

     Irlanda

     
  3. [3] Institute of Applied Microbiology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, DE, Germany
  4. [4] Institute of Plant Ecology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, DE, Germany
  5. [5] Faculty of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, Simón Bolívar University, Barranquilla, Colombia

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• Localización: Microbial ecology, ISSN-e 1432-184X, ISSN 0095-3628, Vol. 83, Nº. 3, 2022, págs. 619-634
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 lead to the increase of plant photosynthetic rates, carbon inputs into soil and root exudation. In this work, the effects of rising atmospheric CO2 levels on the metabolic active soil microbiome have been investigated at the Giessen free-air CO2 enrichment (Gi-FACE) experiment on a permanent grassland site near Giessen, Germany. The aim was to assess the effects of increased C supply into the soil, due to elevated CO2, on the active soil microbiome composition. RNA extraction and 16S rRNA (cDNA) metabarcoding sequencing were performed from bulk and rhizosphere soils, and the obtained data were processed for a compositional data analysis calculating diversity indices and differential abundance analyses. The structure of the metabolic active microbiome in the rhizospheric soil showed a clear separation between elevated and ambient CO2 (p = 0.002); increased atmospheric CO2 concentration exerted a significant influence on the microbiomes differentiation (p = 0.01). In contrast, elevated CO2 had no major influence on the structure of the bulk soil microbiome (p = 0.097). Differential abundance results demonstrated that 42 bacterial genera were stimulated under elevated CO2. The RNA-based metabarcoding approach used in this research showed that the ongoing atmospheric CO2 increase of climate change will significantly shift the microbiome structure in the rhizosphere.