RT Journal Article
T1 Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts
A1 Edlinger, Anna
A1 Garland, Gina
A1 Hartman Kyle, 
A1 Banerjee, Samiran
A1 Degrune, Florine
A1 García Palacios, Pablo
A1 Hallin, Sara
A1 Valzano Held, Alain
A1 Herzog, Chantal
A1 Jansa, Jan
A1 Kost, Elena
A1 Maestre, Fernando
A1 Sánchez Pescador, David
A1 Philippot, Laurent
A1 Rillig, Matthias
A1 Romdhane, Sana
A1 Saghaï, Aurélien
A1 Spor, Ayme
A1 Frossard, Emmanuel
A1 van der Heijden, Marcel
AB Phosphorus (P) acquisition is key for plant growth. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) help plants acquire P from soil. Understanding which factors drive AMF-supported nutrient uptake is essential to develop more sustainable agroecosystems. Here we collected soils from 150 cereal fields and 60 non-cropped grassland sites across a 3,000 km trans-European gradient. In a greenhouse experiment, we tested the ability of AMF in these soils to forage for the radioisotope 33P from a hyphal compartment. AMF communities in grassland soils were much more efficient in acquiring 33P and transferred 64% more 33P to plants compared with AMF in cropland soils. Fungicide application best explained hyphal 33P transfer in cropland soils. The use of fungicides and subsequent decline in AMF richness in croplands reduced 33P uptake by 43%. Our results suggest that land-use intensity and fungicide use are major deterrents to the functioning and natural nutrient uptake capacity of AMF in agroecosystems.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92715
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92715
LA eng
NO Edlinger, A., Garland, G., Hartman, K. et al. Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 1145–1154 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01799-8
NO We thank all the farmers and farm managers for allowing us to sample their fields and for completing our detailed questionnaires. We also thank A. Bonvicini, L. Schönholzer, M. Macsai, F. Tamburini, H. Gamper, S. Müller, D. Bürge, M. Zuber, S. Zhao, V. Somerville, A. Brugger, O. Scholz, D. Bugmann, R. Heiz, B. Seitz and M. Roser for help with field work, the design and execution of the greenhouse experiment and lab analyses. We also thank J. Helfenstein and the anonymous reviewers for valuable feedback on the manuscript. The Digging Deeper project was funded through the 2015–2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call for research proposals, with the national funders Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 31BD30-172466), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (317895346), Swedish Research Council Formas (contract 2016-0194), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Digging_Deeper, Ref. PCIN-2016-028) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France; grant ANR-16-EBI3-0004-01).
NO BiodivERsA COFUND
NO Swiss National Science Foundation
NO Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NO Swedish Research Council 
NO Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa (España)
NO Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Francia)
DS Docta Complutense
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