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... Plant microbiome referred to as plant second genome, plays pivotal role in determination of vigor and productivity of plant. Current high-throughput sequence technologies provide remarkable insight into microbial diversity and host microbe interaction. The obtained dataset aimed to reveal the core bacterial community residing the rhizosphere of two leading cereal crops Zea mays and Triticum aestiv ...
... Conventional culture-based techniques are largely inadequate in elucidating the microbiota contained in an environment, due to low recovery within a complex bacterial community. This limitation has been mitigated by the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based approaches thereby facilitating the identification and classification of both culturable and uncultivable microorganisms. Amplicon tar ...
... The rhizomicrobiome is composed of microbes that live in association with plant roots. From nutrient cycling to carbon sequestration, soil microorganisms have provided a solid base for natural and agricultural ecosystems to function. The relationship between plant roots and soil microorganisms is especially relevant in food staples such as rice (Oryza sativa L.), as the various properties of these ...
... Bergen Community College (BCC) soils were used to generate mud suspensions to construct microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with the anode buried with the mud, while the cathode rested on top. MFCs incubated at 37°C showed more electrical output and electrogenic bacteria than those grown at 25°C. The most productive MFC generated a maximum of 80 microwatts with 1.67 × 10⁹ electrogenic microorganisms. 16S ...
... To gain an in-depth insight into the diversity and the distribution of genes under the particular evolutionary pressure of an arsenic-rich acid mine drainage (AMD), the genes involved in bacterial arsenic detoxification (arsB, ACR3) and arsenite oxidation (aioA) were investigated in sediment from Carnoulès (France), in parallel to the diversity and global distribution of the metabolically active b ...
Acidobacteria; Desulfovibrionales; Firmicutes; Spirochaetales; Syntrophobacterales; bacterial communities; clones; community structure; organic matter; oxygen; phylogeny; ribosomal RNA; sediments; statistics; Arabian Sea; India
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... The eastern Arabian Sea has a unique and permanent oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) that extends along the western continental margin of India. The sediment below this region is rich in organic matter. This study describes the bacterial community structure and diversity in OMZ sediments of the eastern Arabian Sea (AS) through 16S rRNA clone library analysis. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences demonst ...
... Although the consequences of long-term inorganic fertilizer application on microbial communities have been widely investigated, the potential links between soil properties, microbial communities, and functions remain unclear in reddish paddy soil in southern China. Herein, we used Illumina Miseq sequencing technology to evaluate bacterial communities after extensive application of fertilizers star ...
... In agriculture, soil health is disturbed by various anthropogenic activities, including applications of chemicals, and highly mechanized cropping methods, leading to a gradual loss in soil fertility and microbial diversity. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to shift towards eco-friendly and sustainable agri-management practices. The practice of conservation agriculture (CA) is considered a hol ...
... Indigenous bacterial communities are essential for biofiltration processes in drinking water treatment systems. In this study, we examined the microbial community composition and abundance of three different biofilter types (rapid sand, granular activated carbon, and slow sand filters) and their respective effluents in a full-scale, multi-step treatment plant (Zürich, CH). Detailed analysis of org ...
... Hydrocarbon catabolic genes were investigated in soils and sediments in nine different locations around Syowa Station, Antarctica, using conventional PCR, real-time PCR, cloning, and sequencing analysis. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase (PAH-RHD)-coding genes from both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria were observed. Clone libraries of Gram-positive RHD genes w ...
... Acidobacteria is a new bacterial group, identified by molecular research, which is widely distributed and has specific ecological functions in forest soil. In this study, we investigated Acidobacteria response to N input, and the effects were related to N form and dose. The experimental design included two N forms (NH₄ ⁺-N and NO₃ ⁻-N) and five levels of N deposition (0, 20, 40, 60, 80 kg N ha⁻¹) ...
... The Acidobacteria show a widespread distribution in natural ecosystems. In this study, we analyzed the presence of Acidobacteria in freshwater ponds at Doñana National Park (southwestern Spain). Nucleic acid sequence analysis, quantitative, real-time RT-PCR, and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) were carried out. Acidobacteria in these aquatic environments were investigated using their 16S ...
... Bacterial communities of the lichens from a Sphagnum bog (Karelia) and tundra (Vorkuta oblast) were investigated. Members of the phylum Acidobacteria were numerous in the thallus of living and decaying lichens (3.8 Ã 108 cells/g), constituting 6 to 32% of the total bacterial number. Pure cultures of acidobacteria were isolated from the samples of living and decaying lichen thallus. Ten of them we ...
... Easily visible colonies of bacteria continued to form on plates inoculated with soil and incubated for 24 weeks. Using two different media, 13% and 29% of easily visible colonies appeared after more than 12 weeks. In addition, 10% and 18% of all colonies had diameters of 25-200 µm (mini-colonies), which could not be readily seen with the unaided eye. Members of soil bacterial groups that are only ...
Angela Cirigliano; Francesco Mura; Adele Cecchini; Maria Cristina Tomassetti; Daniele Federico Maras; Monica Di Paola; Niccolò Meriggi; Duccio Cavalieri; Rodolfo Negri; Andrea Quagliariello; John E. Hallsworth; Teresa Rinaldi
... Earth's microbial biosphere extends down through the crust and much of the subsurface, including those microbial ecosystems located within cave systems. Here, we elucidate the microbial ecosystems within anthropogenic 'caves'; the Iron‐Age, subterranean tombs of central Italy. The interior walls of the rock (calcium‐rich macco) were painted ~2500 years ago and are covered with CaCO₃ needles (known ...
... This study investigated the acute effects of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) shock load at 2.5, 6 and 25 mg/L on the performance and bacterial community structures in aerobiotic activated sludge reactors. The results showed that eight-day Cr(VI) toxicity made the removal rates of COD and NH₃–N to obviously decrease in all reactors. Furthermore, the higher the Cr(VI) concentration was, the more severe ...
... Soil around the gold tailing due to the smelting process of wastewater and solid waste can lead to metal (loids) contamination, especially arsenic (As). Soil microorganisms have gradually evolved adaptive mechanisms in the process of long-term adaptation to As contamination. However, comprehensive investigations on As metabolism genes and their host microbial communities in soil profiles with diff ...
... The feeding of high-grain diets to dairy cows commonly results in lowered pH and ruminal dysbiosis, characterized by changes in absorption dynamics of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) across the reticuloruminal wall, epithelial function, and the epithelial bacteria community structure. Therefore, the present study evaluated the effect of high-grain feeding persistence on the absorption kinetics of r ...
... Hospital wastewater represents an important source of pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) as contaminants of emerging concern for urban wastewater treatment plants. This work evaluates a fungal biological treatment of a hospital effluent before discharging in the municipal sewer system. This treatment was performed in rotating biological contactors (RBCs) covered with wooden planks in order to ...
Acidobacteria; Actinobacteria; Crenarchaeota; Euryarchaeota; bacterial communities; carbon; community structure; delta-Proteobacteria; ecosystems; environmental factors; fauna; food quality; gamma-Proteobacteria; life history; microorganisms; phylotype; sediments; North Sea
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... Knowledge on the spatial distribution of prokaryotic taxa is an essential basis to understand microbial diversity and the factors shaping its patterns. Large-scale patterns of faunal distribution are thought to be influenced by physical environmental factors, whereas smaller scale spatial heterogeneity is maintained by species-specific life-history characteristics, the quantity and quality of food ...