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SUBMITTER: Possinger AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705750 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Possinger Angela R AR Zachman Michael J MJ Enders Akio A Levin Barnaby D A BDA Muller David A DA Kourkoutis Lena F LF Lehmann Johannes J
Nature communications 20201130 1
The capacity of soil as a carbon (C) sink is mediated by interactions between organic matter and mineral phases. However, previously proposed layered accumulation of organic matter within aggregate organo-mineral microstructures has not yet been confirmed by direct visualization at the necessary nanometer-scale spatial resolution. Here, we identify disordered micrometer-size organic phases rather than previously reported ordered gradients in C functional groups. Using cryo-electron microscopy wi ...[more]