Impacts of phosphate-solubilizing bacterium strain MWP-1 on vegetation growth, soil characteristics, and microbial communities in the Muli coal mining area, China

Yanru Wu, Wenquan Yang, Jiancun Kou, Qinyao Li, Jiaqing Liu, Lu Chi, Yangcan Zhang, Qian Liu, Yanghua Yu · 2024

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Yanru Wu and co-authors test a bacterium that frees phosphorus in soil as a way to heal a high-altitude coal mine site in Qinghai, China. Cold air and poor soil make such sites hard to restore. The strain, Pseudomonas poae MWP-1, was added to mined land at Muli. The 2024 study then tracked plant growth, soil nutrients, and microbe communities with gene sequencing.

Treated plots held far more available phosphorus, plus more organic matter and nitrogen. Plants grew taller, covered more ground, and gained over forty percent more mass. Microbe diversity rose for both bacteria and fungi, and genes for phosphorus and nitrogen cycling shifted. The strain never became dominant, yet its freed phosphorus drove the gains.

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CREATORYanru Wu, Wenquan Yang, Jiancun Kou, Qinyao Li, Jiaqing Liu, Lu Chi, Yangcan Zhang, Qian Liu, Yanghua Yu
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE39 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11655473

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