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Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity
Potassium (K) reduces the deleterious effects of drought stress on plants. However, this mitigation has been studied mainly in the aboveground plant pathways, while the effect of K on root-soil interactions in the underground part is still underexplored. Here, we conducted the experiments to investi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33668385 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030131 |
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author | Xu, Qiwen Fu, Hao Zhu, Bo Hussain, Hafiz Athar Zhang, Kangping Tian, Xiaoqing Duan, Meichun Xie, Xiaoyu Wang, Longchang |
author_facet | Xu, Qiwen Fu, Hao Zhu, Bo Hussain, Hafiz Athar Zhang, Kangping Tian, Xiaoqing Duan, Meichun Xie, Xiaoyu Wang, Longchang |
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description | Potassium (K) reduces the deleterious effects of drought stress on plants. However, this mitigation has been studied mainly in the aboveground plant pathways, while the effect of K on root-soil interactions in the underground part is still underexplored. Here, we conducted the experiments to investigate how K enhances plant resistance and tolerance to drought by controlling rhizosphere processes. Three culture methods (sand, water, and soil) evaluated two rapeseed cultivars’ root morphology, root exudates, soil nutrients, and microbial community structure under different K supply levels and water conditions to construct a defensive network of the underground part. We found that K supply increased the root length and density and the organic acids secretion. The organic acids were significantly associated with the available potassium decomposition, in order of formic acid > malonic acid > lactic acid > oxalic acid > citric acid. However, the mitigation had the hormesis effect, as the appropriate range of K facilitated the morphological characteristic and physiological function of the root system with increases of supply levels, while the excessive input of K could hinder the plant growth. The positive effect of K-fertilizer on soil pH, available phosphorus and available potassium content, and microbial diversity index was more significant under the water stress. The rhizosphere nutrients and pH further promoted the microbial community development by the structural equation modeling, while the non-rhizosphere nutrients had an indirect negative effect on microbes. In short, K application could alleviate drought stress on the growth and development of plants by regulating the morphology and secretion of roots and soil ecosystems. |
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spelling | pubmed-79962902021-03-27 Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity Xu, Qiwen Fu, Hao Zhu, Bo Hussain, Hafiz Athar Zhang, Kangping Tian, Xiaoqing Duan, Meichun Xie, Xiaoyu Wang, Longchang Metabolites Article Potassium (K) reduces the deleterious effects of drought stress on plants. However, this mitigation has been studied mainly in the aboveground plant pathways, while the effect of K on root-soil interactions in the underground part is still underexplored. Here, we conducted the experiments to investigate how K enhances plant resistance and tolerance to drought by controlling rhizosphere processes. Three culture methods (sand, water, and soil) evaluated two rapeseed cultivars’ root morphology, root exudates, soil nutrients, and microbial community structure under different K supply levels and water conditions to construct a defensive network of the underground part. We found that K supply increased the root length and density and the organic acids secretion. The organic acids were significantly associated with the available potassium decomposition, in order of formic acid > malonic acid > lactic acid > oxalic acid > citric acid. However, the mitigation had the hormesis effect, as the appropriate range of K facilitated the morphological characteristic and physiological function of the root system with increases of supply levels, while the excessive input of K could hinder the plant growth. The positive effect of K-fertilizer on soil pH, available phosphorus and available potassium content, and microbial diversity index was more significant under the water stress. The rhizosphere nutrients and pH further promoted the microbial community development by the structural equation modeling, while the non-rhizosphere nutrients had an indirect negative effect on microbes. In short, K application could alleviate drought stress on the growth and development of plants by regulating the morphology and secretion of roots and soil ecosystems. MDPI 2021-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7996290/ /pubmed/33668385 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030131 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Article Xu, Qiwen Fu, Hao Zhu, Bo Hussain, Hafiz Athar Zhang, Kangping Tian, Xiaoqing Duan, Meichun Xie, Xiaoyu Wang, Longchang Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity |
title | Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity |
title_full | Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity |
title_fullStr | Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity |
title_full_unstemmed | Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity |
title_short | Potassium Improves Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Affecting Root Morphology, Root Exudates, and Microbial Diversity |
title_sort | potassium improves drought stress tolerance in plants by affecting root morphology, root exudates, and microbial diversity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33668385 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo11030131 |
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