Project Details
Projekt
The detritusphere as the biogeochemical interface for bacterial and fungal degradation of MCPA
Subject Area
Soil Sciences
Term
from 2007 to 2016
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 40976630
The detritusphere is an excellent model to study microbial-physicochemical interactions during degradation of the herbicide MCPA. Whereas during the first phase of SPP 1315 we focused on bacterial and fungal abundance at the soil litter interface and carbon flow between different compartments, the second phase will be devoted to elucidating complex regulation mechanisms of MCPA degradation in the detritusphere: (1) At the cellular level, co-substrate availability and laccase abundance might be important regulators, (2) at the community level, bacteria harbouring different classes of tfdA genes might control degradation of MCPA and (3) at the microhabitat level, interaction between MCPA degraders and organo-mineral surfaces as well as transport processes might be important regulators. The concept of hierarchical regulation of MCPA degradation will be included into the modelling of small-scale microbial growth, MCPA transport and MCPA degradation near the soil-litter interface.
DFG Programme
Priority Programmes
Subproject of
SPP 1315:
Biogeochemical Interfaces in Soil
