Source and transformations of lignin in Carex-dominated peat

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-42

  Schellekens, Judith ^a   Buurman, Peter ^b   Kuyper, Thomas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Ericaceae; Factor analysis; Galicia; Graminoids; Lignin carbohydrate complex; NaOH extraction; Non lignin phenolic monomers; Penido Vello; Pyrolysis GC MS

Indexed keywords

ERICACEAE; GALICIA; GRAMINOIDS; LIGNIN-CARBOHYDRATE COMPLEX; NAOH-EXTRACTION; PENIDO VELLO; PHENOLIC MONOMERS; PYROLYSIS-GC/MS;

CARBOHYDRATES; DECOMPOSITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LIGNIN; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PEAT; PHENOLS; TISSUE;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DECOMPOSITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIC CONDITIONS; PEAT; PYROLYSIS; SEDGE; TRANSFORMATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

GALICIA [SPAIN]; LUGO [GALICIA]; PENIDO VELLO; SPAIN;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CURTISII; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; CAREX; DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; ERICA MACKAIANA; ERICACEAE; ERIOPHORUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; FESTUCA RUBRA; MOLINIA CAERULEA;

EID: 84861945567     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.04.030     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Akin D.E., Morrison W.H., Rigsby L.L., Gamble G.R., Sethuraman A., Eriksson K.E.L. Biological delignification of plant components by the white rot fungi Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Cyathus stercoreus. Animal Feed Science and Technology 1996, 63:305-321.
2. Benner R., MacCubbin A.E., Hodson R.E. Anaerobic biodegradation of the lignin and polysaccharide components of lignocellulose and synthetic lignin by sediment microflora. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1984, 47:998-1004.
3. Boerjan W., Ralph J., Baucher M. Lignin biosynthesis. Annual Review of Plant Biology 2003, 54:519-546.
4. Boon J.J., Wetzel R.G., Godshalk G.L. Pyrolysis mass spectrometry of some Scirpus species and their decomposition products. Limnology and Oceanography 1982, 27:839-848.
5. Bourdon S., Laggoun-Défarge F., Disnar J., Maman O., Guillet B., Derenne S., Largeau C. Organic matter sources and early diagenetic degradation in a tropical peaty marsh (Tritrivakely, Madagascar). Implications for environmental reconstruction during the Sub-Atlantic. Organic Geochemistry 2000, 31:421-438.
6. Buranov A.U., Mazza G. Lignin in straw of herbaceous crops. Industrial Crops and Products 2008, 28:237-259.
7. Buurman P., Nierop K.G.J., Pontevedra-Pombal X., Martínez-Cortizas A. Molecular chemistry by pyrolysis-GC/MS of selected samples of the Penido Vello peat deposit, NW Spain. Evolution and Records of Environmental and Climate Changes 2006, 217-240. Elsevier, Amsterdam. I.P. Martini, A. Martínez-Cortizas, W. Chesworth (Eds.).
8. Clymo R.S., Turunen J., Tolonen K. Carbon accumulation in peatland. Oikos 1998, 81:368-388.
9. Donaldson L.A. Lignification and lignin topochemistry - an ultrastructural view. Phytochemistry 2001, 57:859-873.
10. Eglinton G., Hamilton R.J. Leaf epicuticular waxes. Science 1967, 156:1322-1325.
11. Filley T.R., Nierop K.G.J., Wang Y. The contribution of polyhydroxyl aromatic compounds to tetramethylammonium hydroxide lignin-based proxies. Organic Geochemistry 2006, 37:711-727.
12. Fraga, I., Romero-Pedreira, D., Sahuquillo, E., 2005. Patterns of vegetation in relation to environmental conditions in Northwestern Spanish mires. IMCG Mires and Peatlands Field Symposium, Tierra del Fuego 2005, Argentina, pp. 35-36.
13. Fraga I., Romero-Pedreira D., Souto M., Castro D., Sahuquillo E. Assessing the impact of wind farms on the plant diversity of blanket bogs in the Xistral mountains (NW Spain). Mires and Peat 2008, 4:1-10.
14. Grabber J.H., Quideau S., Ralph J. p-Coumaroylated syringyl units in maize lignin; implications for β-ether cleavage by thioacidolysis. Phytochemistry 1996, 43:1189-1194.
15. Hartley R.D., Morrison W.H. Monomeric and dimeric phenolic acids released from cell walls of grasses by sequential treatment with sodium hydroxide. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1991, 55:365.
16. Hatfield R.D. Comparing corn types for differences in cell wall characteristics and p-coumaroylation of lignin. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2009, 57:4243-4249.
17. Hedges J.I., Mann D.C. The characterization of plant tissues by their lignin oxidation products. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1979, 43:1803-1807.
18. 13C-NMR and pyrolysis-GC/MS. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 1998, 30:1517-1528.
19. Ishii T. Structure and functions of feruloyated polysaccharides. Plant Science 1997, 127:111-127.
20. Karunen P., Kalviainen E. Lipids and hydroxycinnamic acids in cell walls of Eriophorum vaginatum. Phytochemistry 1988, 27:2045-2048.
21. Kögel-Knabner I. The macromolecular organic composition of plant and microbial residues as inputs to soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2002, 34:139-162.
22. Kondo T., Mizuno K., Kato T. Cell wall-bound p-coumaric and ferulic acids in Italian ryegrass. Canadian Journal of Botany 1989, 71:495-499.
23. Kondo T., Ohshita T., Kyuma T. Ester- and ether-linked phenolic acids in orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) and their digestion from cell walls when fed to sheep. Canadian Journal of Botany 1991, 71:1179-1182.
24. Kuder T., Kruge M.A. Preservation of biomolecules in sub-fossil plants from raised peat bogs - a potential paleoenvironmental proxy. Organic Geochemistry 1998, 29:1355-1368.
25. Kuder T., Kruge M.A., Shearer J.C., Miller S.L. Environmental and botanical controls on peatification - a comparative study of two New Zealand restiad bogs using Py-GC/MS, petrography and fungal analysis. International Journal of Coal Geology 1998, 37:3-27.
26. Lam T.B.T., Iiyama K., Stone B.A. Changes in phenolic acids from internode walls of wheat and phalaris during maturation. Phytochemistry 1992, 31:2655-2658.
27. Lewis N.G., Yamamoto E. Lignin: occurrence, biogenesis and biodegradation. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 1990, 41:455-496.
28. Lu F., Ralph J. Lignin. Cereal Straw as a Resource for Sustainable Biomaterials and Biofuels. Chemistry, Extractives, Lignins, Hemicelluloses and Cellulose 2010, pp. 169-207, (Chapter 6).
29. Machinet G.E., Bertrand I., Barrière Y., Chabbert B., Recous S. Impact of plant cell wall network on biodegradation in soil: role of lignin composition and phenolic acids in roots from 16 maize genotypes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2011, 43:1544-1552.
30. Martín F., Saiz-Jimenez C., González-Vila F.J. Pyrolysis - gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of lignins. Holzforschung 1979, 33:210-212.
31. Martínez A.T., Camarero S., Gutiérrez A., Bocchini P., Galletti G.C. Studies in wheat lignin degradation by Pleurotus species using analytical pyrolysis. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 2001, 58-59:401-411.
32. Martínez-Cortizas A., Pontevedra-Pombal X., Nóvoa-Muñoz J.C., García-Rodeja E. Four thousand years of atmospheric Pb, Cd and Zn deposition recorded by the ombrotrophic peat bog of Penido Vello (Northwestern Spain). Water, Air and Soil Pollution 1997, 100:387-403.
33. Martínez-Cortizas A., García-Rodeja E., Pontevedra-Pombal X., Nóvoa-Muñoz J.C., Weiss D., Cheburkin A. Atmospheric Pb deposition in Spain during the last 4600 years recorded by two ombrotrophic peat bogs and implications for the use of peat as archive. Science of the Total Environment 2002, 292:33-44.
34. McClymont E.L., Bingham E.M., Nott C.J., Chambers F.M., Pancost R.D., Evershed R.P. Pyrolysis GC-MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat. Organic Geochemistry 2011, 42:1420-1435.
35. Monschein M., Iglesias Neira J., Kunert O., Bucar F. Phytochemistry of heather (Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull) and its altitudinal alteration. Phytochemistry Reviews 2010, 9:205-215.
36. Nierop K.G.J. Temporal and vertical organic matter differentiation along a vegetation succession as revealed by pyrolysis and thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 2001, 61:111-132.
37. Nierop K.G.J., van Lagen B., Buurman P. Composition of plant tissues and soil organic matter in the first stages of a vegetation succession. Geoderma 2001, 10:1-24.
38. Pontevedra-Pombal, X., 2002. Mountain Mires of Galicia. Genesis, Properties and its Use as Geochemical Environmental Records. Ph.D. thesis. University of Santiago, Spain, pp. 215 (in Spanish).
39. Pouwels A.D., Tom A., Eijkel G.B., Boon J.J. Characterisation of beech wood and its holocellulose and xylan fractions by pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical and xApplied Pyrolysis 1987, 11:417-436.
40. Pouwels A.D., Eijkel G.B., Boon J.J. Curie-point pyrolysis high-resolution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of microcrystalline cellulose. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 1989, 14:237-280.
41. Ralph J., Hatfield R.D. Pyrolysis-GC-MS characterization of forage materials. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 1991, 39:1426-1437.
42. Ralph J., Hatfield R.D., Quideau S., Helm R.F., Grabber J.H., Jung H.G. Pathway of p-coumaric acid incorporation into maize lignin as revealed by NMR. Journal of the American Chemical Society 1994, 116:9448-9456.
43. Ralph J., Grabber J.H., Hatfield R.D. Lignin-ferulate cross-links in grasses: active incorporation of ferulate polysaccharide esters into ryegrass lignins. Carbohydrate Research 1995, 275:167-178.
44. Sarkanen K.V., Ludwig C.H. Lignins: Occurrence, Formation, Structure and Reactions 1971, Wiley-Interscience, New York.
45. Schellekens J., Buurman P. n-Alkane distributions as palaeoclimatic proxies in ombrotrophic peat: the role of decomposition and dominant vegetation. Geoderma 2011, 164:112-121.
46. Schellekens J., Buurman P., Pontevedra-Pombal X. Selecting parameters for the environmental interpretation of peat molecular chemistry - a pyrolysis-GC/MS study. Organic Geochemistry 2009, 40:678-691.
47. Schellekens J., Buurman P., Fraga I., Martínez-Cortizas A. Holocene hydrologic changes inferred from molecular vegetation markers in peat, Penido Vello (Galicia, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2011, 299:56-69.
48. Shimada M., Fukuzuka T., Higuchi T. Ester linkages of p-coumaric acid in bamboo and grass lignins. Tappi Journal 1971, 54:72-77.
49. Smith B.G., Harris P.J. The polysaccharide composition of Poales cell walls: poaceae cell walls are not unique. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 1999, 27:33-53.
50. Stout S.A., Boon J.J., Spackman W. Molecular aspects of the peatification and early coalification of angiosperm and gymnosperm woods. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1988, 52:405-414.
51. Sun X.F., Jing Z., Fawler P., Wu T., Rajaratnam M. Structural characterization and isolation of lignin and hemicelluloses from barley straw. Industrial Crops and Products 2011, 33:588-598.
52. Terrón M.C., Fidalgo M.L., González A.E., Almendros G., Galletti G.C. Pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of wheat straw fractions obtained by alkaline treatments used in pulping processes. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 1993, 27:57-71.
53. Thevenot M., Dignac M.F., Rumpel C. Fate of lignins in soils: a review. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2010, 42:1200-1211.
54. van Bergen P.F., Bland H.A., Horton M.C., Evershed R.P. Chemical and morphological changes in archaeological seeds and fruits during preservation by desiccation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1997, 61:1919-1930.
55. van der Hage E.R.E., Mulder M.M., Boon J.J. Structural characterization of lignin polymers by temperature-resolved in-source pyrolysis-mass spectrometry and Curie-point pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 1993, 25:149-183.
56. van der Heijden E., Boon J.J. A combined pyrolysis mass spectrometric and light microscopic study of peatified Calluna wood isolated from raised bog peat deposits. Organic Geochemistry 1994, 22:903-919.
57. van der Heijden E., Boon J.J., Scheijen M.A. Chemical characterisation of peat and peatified plant tissues by temperature resolved pyrolysis mass spectrometry and high temperature gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Peat 90; International Conference of Finnish Peat Industries 1990, 148-163. R. Sopo (Ed.).
58. Watanabe T.J., Ohnishi J., Yamasaki Y., Kaizu S., Koshijima T. Binding-site analysis of the ether linkage between lignin and hemicelluloses in lignin-carbohydrate complexes by DDQ oxidation. Agricultural and Biological Chemistry 1989, 53:2233-2252.
59. Wende G., Fry S.T. 2-O-β-D-xylopyranosyl-(5-O-Feruloyl)-L-arabinose, a widespread component of grass cell walls. Phytochemistry 1996, 44:1019-1030.
60. Williams C.J., Yavitt J.B. Botanical composition of peat and degree of peat decomposition in three temperate peatlands. Ecoscience 2003, 10:85-95.
61. Yeloff D., Mauquoy D. The influence of vegetation composition on peat humification: implications for palaeoclimatic studies. Boreas 2006, 35:662-673.
62. Zaccone C., Said-Pullicino D., Gigliotti G., Miano T.M. Diagenetic trends in the phenolic constituents of Sphagnum-dominated peat and its corresponding humic acid fraction. Organic Geochemistry 2008, 39:830-838.