Microbial release of potassium from K-bearing minerals by thermophilic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

By B. Lian, Bin Wang, Mu Pan, Congqiang Liu, H. Teng. 2008

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Earth-Surface Processes, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Beneficial Soil Microorganisms, an Ecological Alternative for Soil Fertility Management (2011, background): “Likewise, K-bearing minerals were solubilized by Aspergillus fumigatus (Lian et al. 2008).”
• Cellular dissolution at hypha- and spore-mineral interfaces revealing unrecognized mechanisms and scales of fungal weathering (2016, background): “While these efforts led to the understanding that bio- molecules dissolve minerals through proton and ligand effects (Drever and Stillings, 1997), it leaves much to be desired when cellular dissolution is concerned (Banfield et al., 1999; Lian et al., 2008).”
• Reviews and syntheses: Biological weathering and its consequences at different spatial levels – from nanoscale to global scale (2020, background): “Release of potassium from K-feldspar and illite in microcosms by the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus was demonstrated by Lian et al. (2008), who showed that release of K was enhanced by a factor of 3–4 by physical contact between the fungus and the mineral surface.”
• Clay minerals interaction with microorganisms: a review (2017, background): “Lian et al. (2008) suggested that K release was promoted by three mechanisms: (1) organic complexation by soluble ligands; (2) adsorption on biopolymers; and (3) mechanical forces.”
• Alteration of the soil bacterial community during parent material maturation driven by different fertilization treatments (2016, background): “Moreover, during the early period of soil formation, microorganisms enhance weathering through the production of organic acids, promotion of hydrolysis reactions, and the release of nutrients such as phosphorus and potassium from soil minerals (Lian et al., 2008; Uroz et al., 2009).”
• Oxalate production by fungi: significance in geomycology, biodeterioration and bioremediation (2014, background): “Oxalic acid can leach those metals that form soluble oxalate complexes, including K, Al and Fe (Strasser et al., 1994; Lian et al., 2008a,b) as well as toxic metals.”
• Metals, minerals and microbes: geomicrobiology and bioremediation. (2010, unknown): “Mineral dissolution may result in release of toxic (Sayer et al., 1999) or essential metals like K (Lian et al., 2008a, b).”
• Microbial Interaction with Clay Minerals and Its Environmental and Biotechnological Implications (2020, background): “The biomechanical mineral weathering can occur directly, for example, through fungal hyphae penetration by breaking of intact mineral surfaces at the nm scale and growing along crystal planes, cleavage, cracks and grain boundaries in the decayed rocks [24,56,75,77,89,109,112,113].”