Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review

Glomalin that is a kind of glycoprotein produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the phylum Glomeromycota, has some characteristics of hydrophobins with insolubility and difficulty in its extraction. The protein is highly homologous with heat shock protein 60. In soils, glomalin is measured as gl...

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Main Authors: Gao, Wei-Qin, Wang, Peng, Wu, Qiang-Sheng
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
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spelling ukm-130592019-06-20T14:35:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13059/ Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review Gao, Wei-Qin Wang, Peng Wu, Qiang-Sheng Glomalin that is a kind of glycoprotein produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the phylum Glomeromycota, has some characteristics of hydrophobins with insolubility and difficulty in its extraction. The protein is highly homologous with heat shock protein 60. In soils, glomalin is measured as glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP). GRSP is highly positively correlated with soil aggregate stability, because it is a new component of soil organic matter. The mycorrhiza-released glomalin has represented potential functioning in soil ecosystems, which include promoting the storage of soil organic carbon, improving the structure of soil aggregates, enhancing the resistance of plants, and reducing the metal toxicity of plants. In addition, some potted and field experiments have been performed to exogenously apply the GRSP in crop plants to confirm the GRSP roles. Hence, GRSP is one of the most significant multidisciplinary topics between fungal physiology and soil biochemistry. Despite much work performed on glomalin from 1996, there are still gaps of GRSP that needs to be solved, including purification, structural features and environmental responses. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13059/1/13%20Wei-Qin%20Gao.pdf Gao, Wei-Qin and Wang, Peng and Wu, Qiang-Sheng (2019) Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review. Sains Malaysiana, 48 (1). pp. 111-119. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/malay_journals/jilid48bil1_2019/KandunganJilid48Bil1_2019.html
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description Glomalin that is a kind of glycoprotein produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the phylum Glomeromycota, has some characteristics of hydrophobins with insolubility and difficulty in its extraction. The protein is highly homologous with heat shock protein 60. In soils, glomalin is measured as glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP). GRSP is highly positively correlated with soil aggregate stability, because it is a new component of soil organic matter. The mycorrhiza-released glomalin has represented potential functioning in soil ecosystems, which include promoting the storage of soil organic carbon, improving the structure of soil aggregates, enhancing the resistance of plants, and reducing the metal toxicity of plants. In addition, some potted and field experiments have been performed to exogenously apply the GRSP in crop plants to confirm the GRSP roles. Hence, GRSP is one of the most significant multidisciplinary topics between fungal physiology and soil biochemistry. Despite much work performed on glomalin from 1996, there are still gaps of GRSP that needs to be solved, including purification, structural features and environmental responses.
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author Gao, Wei-Qin
Wang, Peng
Wu, Qiang-Sheng
spellingShingle Gao, Wei-Qin
Wang, Peng
Wu, Qiang-Sheng
Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
author_facet Gao, Wei-Qin
Wang, Peng
Wu, Qiang-Sheng
author_sort Gao, Wei-Qin
title Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
title_short Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
title_full Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
title_fullStr Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
title_full_unstemmed Functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
title_sort functions and application of glomalin-related soil proteins: a review
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13059/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13059/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13059/1/13%20Wei-Qin%20Gao.pdf
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