Rhizosphere bacterial carbon turnover is higher in nucleic acids than membrane lipids : Implications for understanding soil carbon cycling

Acknowledgments We thank Agnes Fastnacht, Karl Kuebler, Steffen Ruehlow, Iris Kuhlmann, Heike Geilmann, Petra Linke, and Willi Brand for technical support in establishing the experimental setup and/or with stable isotope analyses. We also thank Bernhard Ahrens and Daniel Read for helpful discussions. This project was funded by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. We acknowledge Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the fellowship to AAM in the research training group 1257 ‘Alteration and element mobility at microbe-mineral interface’ that is part of the Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC). AAM was also supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC).Peer reviewedPublisher PD