Switchgrass Roots and Reduced Soil Water Potentials Enhance Soil Extracellular Polysaccharide Content and the Frequency of Water-stable Aggregates

Nameer Rahman Baker1, Yonatan Sher1, Donald Herman1,2, Christina Fossum1, Lauren Hale3, Xingxu Zhang4, Erin E Nuccio5, Malay Saha6, Jizhong Zhou7,8, Jennifer Pett-Ridge5 and Mary Firestone1,2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Parlier, CA, United States, (4)Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (6)Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States