Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms: a sustainability strategy to improve urban ecosystems

Yang Feng; Jing He; Hongchen Zhang; Xiaolin Jia; Youning Hu; Jianqing Ye; Xinyuan Gu; Xinping Zhang; Haoming Chen

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1320853

Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms: a sustainability strategy to improve urban ecosystems

Front Microbiol. 2024 Jan 5:14:1320853. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1320853. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yang Feng^#^{1

2}, Jing He^#¹, Hongchen Zhang¹, Xiaolin Jia^{1

2}, Youning Hu³, Jianqing Ye¹, Xinyuan Gu¹, Xinping Zhang⁴, Haoming Chen⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Art and Design, Xijing University, Xi'an, China.
² Shaanxi Provincial Research Center of Public Scientific Quality Development and Cultural and Creative Industry Development, Xi'an, China.
³ School of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Xi'an University, Xi'an, China.
⁴ School of Art and Design, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China.
⁵ School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Intensification of urban construction has gradually destroyed human habitat ecosystems. Plants, which serve as the foundation of ecosystems, require green, low-cost, and effective technologies to sustain their growth in stressful environments. A total of 286 keywords and 10 clusters from the bibliometric analysis of 529 articles (1999-2023) indicate the increasing importance of research on microbial functionality in landscape ecosystems. Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms (PSMs) also improve plant disease resistance, adaptability, and survival. PSMs are widely used to promote plant growth and improve ecological quality. They can increase the availability of phosphorus in the soil and reduce the dependence of plants on chemical fertilizers. Microorganisms regulate phosphorus as key tools in landscape ecosystems. Most importantly, in urban and rural landscape practices, PSMs can be applied to green spaces, residential landscapes, road greening, and nursery planting, which play significant roles in improving vegetation coverage, enhancing plant resistance, improving environmental quality, and mitigating the heat island effect. PSMs are also helpful in restoring the ecological environment and biodiversity of polluted areas, such as brownfields, to provide residents with a more liveable living environment. Therefore, the multiple efficacies of PSM are expected to play increasingly important roles in the construction of urban and rural landscape ecosystems.

Keywords: landscape ecosystem; phosphate; plants; soil nutrients; urban environmental.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study was supported by the Scientific Research Project of the Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government (grant no. 21JK0416), and the Xijing University Special Fund for High-level Talents (grant no. XJ23B02) to YF. This study was also supported by the National Social Science Fund Art Project (grant no. 20BH158) to XJ. This study was also supported by the Open Fund for Large Instrumentation of the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (E2023519001) and the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (SJCX23_0125) to HC. This study was also supported by the Shaanxi Province Natural Science Basic Research Project (2019JQ-892) to YH.