Green House Gas Mitigation and Carnon Sequestration is very important when we consider Soil Micoflora? Let us try to find different answers which should be helpful for the researchers and friends in the same community working on Soil.... What are the mechanisms by which soil microflora contribute to soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation?
Mycorrhizal fungi play a major role in carbon sequestration.
The plant can take up to 20% of its photosynthesis to excrete into the soil where it elicits microbial interactions.
Plants under low P can produce elicitors of mycorrhizal fungi which extensive fee off the plant products and then proliferation extensively in the soil
The mycorrhizal net can be up to many thousand times more searching of the soil resource than the root system without the mycorrhizae.
understand that mycorrhizal are protected in the soil by a sheath of glomalin glycoprotein which is resistant to rapid decay and builds up in the soil and this is the key mechanism of microbial carbon sequestration in plant production.
@Paul Soil microflora contribute to soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation through:
- Decomposition of organic matter and humification, storing carbon in soil
- Production of glomalin, a soil protein that binds soil particles and protects carbon
- Stimulation of plant growth, increasing carbon inputs through roots and residues, and reducing atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis.
90% of plants are connected to extensive webs of gungal mycelium
the sticky protective sheath glomalin protein is highly resistant to decay
as long as not disrupted it will ince humic substances
unfortunately modern agriculure has not fostered these fungi
Synthetic agrichemicals and tillage can devastate soil mycorrhizal networks
the use of high p fertilizer plowing, and fungicides are killers of this bastion of soil improvement
rotation crops cover crops and pasture systems with recycled organic amendment are favorable
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