Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.13903

Variation in glomalin‑related soil protein and plant growth response to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a nutrient gradient in temperate grasslands https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-023-05958-z

I handle a lot of manuscripts as editor that measure glomalin as a way to infer AM fungal contributions to soil carbon sequestration, and also have a lot of discussions with students and colleagues about this. My understanding of the older literature is that this relationship is no longer supported, but I still see a lot of publications using the method so I wanted to read a recent paper on the topic.

most of the research is focused on AM fungi utilisation of P and supply to plants, this paper draws attention to the less attended topic on how Nitrogen can be utilised from organic compounds and supplied to plants by AM fungi. The absence of enzymes in terms of mineralization of organic nutrient in AM fungi suppress direct utilisation of nutrients, however other soil microorganisms such as bacteria and protists mineralise them and release nutrients which can be utilised by fungi and nutrients be exchanged with plants through Hyphae. The research on N exchange through AM fungi is limited , hence I found this paper interesting.

Surprising is the microbial necromass (dead bodies) contribution (15-80%) to SOM! This paper brings evidence, reporting contributions to SOC of 45-80 % in alpine forest, meadow and wetland.