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cord-013798-y8oy9tew	Malik, Ashish A.	Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production	2020-05-22		.txt	text/plain	6752	320	39	Here we present metatranscriptomic and metabolomic data on the physiological response of in situ microbial communities on plant litter to long-term drought in Californian grass and shrub ecosystems. In contrast, communities on chemically more diverse and complex shrub litter had smaller physiological differences in response to long-term drought but higher investment in resource acquisition traits across precipitation treatments, suggesting that the functional response to drought is constrained by substrate quality. Specifically, we hypothesised that (1) long-term drought causes increased gene expression and metabolite production associated with osmoprotection, dormancy and moisture retention mechanisms which leads to reduced growth; and (2) chemically diverse and complex shrub litter requires increased investment in resource acquisition pathways, further constraining microbial growth under drought. A significant number of indicators of reduced precipitation in grass litter also belonged to the classes of membrane transport (47 functions) or stress response (41 functions) which were almost absent in the indicator profiles of ambient communities (Fig. 2e) .	./cache/cord-013798-y8oy9tew.txt	./txt/cord-013798-y8oy9tew.txt