Abstract
While molybdenum (Mo) application can improve phosphorus (P) availability to plants by changing P speciation in the rhizosphere, the mechanistic basis of this process remains unclear. This work investigated the impact of various combinations of Mo and P treatments on root morphology, P and Mo uptake, and root transcriptome and metabolome. Mo application significantly increased soybean biomass and the number of lateral roots at both low (5 μmol) or normal (500 μmol) P levels and significantly improved P concentration and accumulation in Normal P treatment. Compared with the Normal P treatment, Low P significantly increased the number of roots, root surface area, and root acid phosphatase secretion. A total of 6811 Mo-responsive differentially expressed genes and 135 differential metabolites were identified at two P levels. At Low P, transcriptional changes significantly increased root synthesis and secretion of succinic acid, methylmalonic acid, and other organic acids as well as acid phosphatase, thereby increasing the conversion of soil aluminum-bound P and organic P into available P. At Normal P, Mo application increased P uptake mainly by increasing the number of lateral roots. Thus, Mo helps crops adapt to different P levels by regulating root anatomy and transcriptional and metabolic profiles of their roots.
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Claim · model-written summary
Mo application significantly increased soybean biomass and number of lateral roots at both low (5 μmol) and normal (500 μmol) P levels.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Mo applicatione1
- Outcome
- soybean biomass and the number of lateral rootse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- at both low (5 μmol) or normal (500 μmol) P levelse1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e1“Mo application significantly increased soybean biomass and the number of lateral roots at both low (5 μmol) or normal (500 μmol) P levels”
Claim · model-written summary
Mo application significantly improved P concentration and accumulation in the Normal P treatment.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Mo applicatione2
- Outcome
- P concentration and accumulatione2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Qualifier
- in Normal P treatmente2
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e2“Mo application significantly increased soybean biomass and the number of lateral roots at both low (5 μmol) or normal (500 μmol) P levels and significantly improved P concentration and accumulation in Normal P treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Compared with Normal P, Low P significantly increased the number of roots, root surface area and root acid phosphatase secretion.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Low Pe3
- Outcome
- the number of roots, root surface area, and root acid phosphatase secretione3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Comparator
- Normal P treatmente3
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t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e3“Compared with the Normal P treatment, Low P significantly increased the number of roots, root surface area, and root acid phosphatase secretion”
Claim · model-written summary
A total of 6811 Mo-responsive differentially expressed genes were identified at two P levels.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Outcome
- Mo-responsive differentially expressed genese4
- Value
- 6811e4
- Qualifier
- at two P levelse4
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Verbatim
t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e4“A total of 6811 Mo-responsive differentially expressed genes and 135 differential metabolites were identified at two P levels”
Claim · model-written summary
A total of 135 differential metabolites were identified at two P levels.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Outcome
- differential metabolitese4
- Value
- 135e4
- Qualifier
- at two P levelse4
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t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e4“A total of 6811 Mo-responsive differentially expressed genes and 135 differential metabolites were identified at two P levels”
Claim · model-written summary
At Low P, transcriptional changes significantly increased root synthesis and secretion of succinic acid, methylmalonic acid and other organic acids, and acid phosphatase.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Low Pe5
- Outcome
- root synthesis and secretion of succinic acid, methylmalonic acid, and other organic acids as well as acid phosphatasee5
- Qualifier
- transcriptional changese5
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Verbatim
t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e5“At Low P, transcriptional changes significantly increased root synthesis and secretion of succinic acid, methylmalonic acid, and other organic acids as well as acid phosphatase”
Claim · model-written summary
At Low P, this increased conversion of soil aluminum-bound P and organic P into available P.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Low Pe6
- Outcome
- conversion of soil aluminum-bound P and organic P into available Pe6
- Direction
- increasinge6
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Verbatim
t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e6“At Low P, transcriptional changes significantly increased root synthesis and secretion of succinic acid, methylmalonic acid, and other organic acids as well as acid phosphatase, thereby increasing the conversion of soil aluminum-bound P and organic P into available P”
Claim · model-written summary
At Normal P, Mo application increased P uptake mainly by increasing the number of lateral roots.
- Taxon
- Soybean
Glycine maxt0 - Treatment
- Mo applicatione7
- Outcome
- P uptakee7
- Qualifier
- mainly by increasing the number of lateral rootse7
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Verbatim
t0“Soybean (Glycine max)”
e7“At Normal P, Mo application increased P uptake mainly by increasing the number of lateral roots”
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