Soil formate regulates the fungal nitrous oxide emission pathway.
Fungal activity is a major driver in the global nitrogen cycle, and mounting evidence suggests that fungal denitrification activity contributes significantly to soil emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N(2)O). The metabolic pathway and oxygen requirement for fungal denitrification are different from those for bacterial denitrification. We hypothesized that the soil N(2)O emission from fungi is formate and O(2) dependent and that land use and landforms could influence the proportion of N(2)O coming from fungi. Using substrate-induced respiration inhibition under anaerobic and aerobic conditions in combination with (15)N gas analysis, we found that formate and hypoxia (versus anaerobiosis) were essential for the fungal reduction of (15)N-labeled nitrate to (15)N(2)O. As much as 65% of soil-emitted N(2)O was attributable to fungi; however, this was found only in soils from water-accumulating landforms. From these results, we hypothesize that plant root exudates could affect N(2)O production from fungi via the proposed formate-dependent pathway.
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Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Farrell
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Siciliano
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D000332:Aerobiosis; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D005561:Formates / Q000378:metabolism*; D005658:Fungi / Q000378:metabolism*; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D008954:Models, Biological; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D009609:Nitrous Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012988:Soil Microbiology
D005561:Formates; C030544:formic acid; D009609:Nitrous Oxide; D009584:Nitrogen
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