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Zhou X, Sun Y, Wang T, Tang L, Ling W, Mosa A, Wang J, Gao Y. Remediation potential of an immobilized microbial consortium with corn straw as a carrier in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons contaminated soil. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2024; 469:134091. [PMID: 38513440 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread in soils and threaten human health seriously. The immobilized microorganisms (IM) technique is an effective and environmentally sound approach for remediating PAH-contaminated soil. However, the knowledge of the remedial efficiency and the way IM operates using natural organic materials as carriers in complex soil environments is limited. In this study, we loaded a functional microbial consortium on corn straw to analyze the effect of IM on PAH concentration and explore the potential remediation mechanisms of IM in PAH-contaminated soil. The findings revealed that the removal rate of total PAHs in the soil was 88.25% with the application of IM after 20 days, which was 39.25% higher than the control treatment, suggesting that IM could more easily degrade PAHs in soil. The findings from high-throughput sequencing and quantitative PCR revealed that the addition of IM altered the bacterial community structure and key components of the bacterial network, enhanced cooperative relationships among bacteria, and increased the abundance of bacteria and functional gene copies such as nidA and nahAc in the soil, ultimately facilitating the degradation of PAHs in the soil. This study enhances our understanding of the potential applications of IM for the treatment of PAH-contaminated soil.
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- Xian Zhou
- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China
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- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China
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- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China
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- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China
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- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China
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- Soils Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, 35516 Mansoura, Egypt
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- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China.
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- Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, PR China
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Tian Z, He H, Li Y, Huang F, Sun J, Zhang C, Hu A, Li J. Distillers' grains organic fertilizer alters soil bacterial composition and co-occurrence patterns in a tobacco-growing field. Braz J Microbiol 2024; 55:799-807. [PMID: 38175357 PMCID: PMC10920540 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-023-01229-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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In recent years, numerous studies have indicated that the combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers can effectively improve soil fertility and soil productivity. Distillers' grain (DG), the primary by-product of Chinese spirits production, has a high utilization value for producing organic fertilizer. We investigated the effects of distillers' grain organic fertilizer (DGOF) on soil chemical properties and microbial community composition, as well as the effects of chemical properties on the abundance of keystone species. The results indicated that the application of DGOF significantly increased tobacco yield by 14.8% and mainly affected the composition rather than the alpha diversity of the bacterial community. Ten amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) were identified as keystone species in the bacterial communities, and most of their relative abundance was influenced by the DGOF addition through affecting soil chemical properties. Our results elucidated the alterations in soil chemical properties and microbial community composition resulting from DGOF application, which is of great importance to better understand the relationship between DGOF and soil microorganisms in the flue-cured tobacco cultivation field.
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- Zhen Tian
- Technology Center, China Tobacco Jiangsu Industrial Co. Ltd, Nanjing, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Jiangsu Industrial Co. Ltd, Nanjing, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Jiangsu Industrial Co. Ltd, Nanjing, China
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- Bozhou Branch, Zunyi Tobacco Company, Zunyi, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Jiangsu Industrial Co. Ltd, Nanjing, China
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- Bozhou Branch, Zunyi Tobacco Company, Zunyi, China
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- School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, Nantong, China.
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- School of Geographic Science, Nantong University, Nantong, China
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Ban S, Cheng W, Wang X, Niu J, Wu Q, Xu Y. Predicting the final metabolic profile based on the succession-related microbiota during spontaneous fermentation of the starter for Chinese liquor making. mSystems 2024; 9:e0058623. [PMID: 38206013 PMCID: PMC10878095 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00586-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Microbial inoculation is an effective way to improve the quality of fermented foods via affecting the microbiota structure. However, it is unclear how the inoculation regulates the microbiota structure, and it is still difficult to directionally control the microbiota function via the inoculation. In this work, using the spontaneous fermentation of the starter (Daqu) for Chinese liquor fermentation as a case, we inoculated different microbiota groups at different time points in Daqu fermentation, and analyzed the effect of the inoculation on the final metabolic profile of Daqu. The inoculated microbiota and inoculated time points both significantly affected the final metabolites via regulating the microbial succession (P < 0.001), and multiple inoculations can promote deterministic assembly. Twenty-seven genera were identified to be related to microbial succession, and drove the variation of 121 metabolites. We then constructed an elastic network model to predict the profile of these 121 metabolites based on the abundances of 27 succession-related genera in Daqu fermentation. Procrustes analysis showed that the model could accurately predict the metabolic abundances (average Spearman correlation coefficients >0.3). This work revealed the effect of inoculation on the microbiota succession and the metabolic profile. The established predicted model of metabolic profile would be beneficial for directionally improving the food quality.IMPORTANCEThis work revealed the importance of microbial succession to microbiota structure and metabolites. Multi-inoculations would promote deterministic assembly. It would facilitate the regulation of microbiota structure and metabolic profile. In addition, we established a model to predict final metabolites based on microbial genera related to microbial succession. This model was beneficial for optimizing the inoculation of the microbiota. This work would be helpful for controlling the spontaneous food fermentation and directionally improving the food quality.
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- Shibo Ban
- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Sichuan Langjiu Group Co., Ltd, Luzhou, China
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- Sichuan Langjiu Group Co., Ltd, Luzhou, China
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- Sichuan Langjiu Group Co., Ltd, Luzhou, China
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- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
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Wu L, Zhao L, Tao Y, Zhang D, He A, Ma X, Zhang H, Li G, Rong L, Li R. Improving the aroma profile of inoculated fermented sausages by constructing a synthetic core microbial community. J Food Sci 2023; 88:4388-4402. [PMID: 37750814 DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.16764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2023] [Revised: 08/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Commercial starter cultures play a critical role in the industrial production of fermented sausages. However, commercial starter cultures could not reproduce the metabolic actions of diverse microorganisms and the aroma profile of the traditional spontaneously fermented sausages. Identifying the core microbial community in spontaneously fermented sausages will facilitate the construction of a synthetic microbial community for reproducing metabolic actions and flavor compounds in spontaneously fermented sausages. This study aimed to reveal the core microbial community of spontaneously fermented sausages based on their relative abundance, flavor-producing ability, and co-occurrence performance. We identified five promising genera to construct the synthetic core microbial community, these were Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus, Macrococcus, Streptococcus, and Pediococcus. Sausages inoculated with a synthetic core microbial community presented higher quality of aroma profile than the fermented sausages inoculated with a commercial starter culture. Some important volatile flavor compounds of spontaneously fermented sausage, such as (-)-β-pinene, β-caryophyllene, 3-methyl-1-butanol, α-terpineol, ethyl 2-methylpropanoate, and ethyl 3-methylbutanoate which are associated with floral, fruity, sweet, and fresh aromas, were also detected in fermented sausage inoculated with synthetic microbial community. This indicated that the synthetic core microbial community efficiently reproduced flavor metabolism. Overall, this study provides a practical strategy to design a synthetic microbial community applicable to different scientific fields.
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- Liu Wu
- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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- Gansu Polytechnic College of Animal Husbandry & Engineering, Wuwei, Gansu, China
- Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Yibin, Sichuan, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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Gu H, Yan J, Liu Y, Yu X, Feng Y, Yang X, Lam SS, Naushad M, Li C, Sonne C. Autochthonous bioaugmentation accelerates phenanthrene degradation in acclimated soil. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 224:115543. [PMID: 36822540 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.115543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2022] [Revised: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Bioaugmentation helps to obtain a microbiome capable of remediating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In this study, acclimation of microorganisms to soil supplemented with phenanthrene (PHE) led to enrichment with PAH-degraders, including those in Actinobacteriota and in the genera Streptomyces, Rhodococcus, Nocardioides, Sphingomonas, and Mycobacterium. Aqueous (28 °C, pH 6.5) and soil cultures inoculated with PHE-acclimated soil showed a high PHE (ca. 50 mg L-1) degradation efficiency. The PHE degradation kinetics in aqueous and soil incubations fitted to the Gompertz equation and the first-order kinetic equation, respectively. Indigenous microorganisms adapted to PHE in their environment, and this increased their capacity to degrade PHE. The effect of co-contaminants and pathway intermediates on PHE degradation showed that the degradation of PHE improved in the presence of diesel while being hindered by lubricant oil, catechol, salicylic and phthalic acid. Our findings provide theoretical and practical support for bioremediationof PAHs in the environment.
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- Haiping Gu
- School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450045, China
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- School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia; Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Roskilde DK-4000, Denmark.
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Yang C, Zeng Z, Wang Y, He G, Hu Y, Gao D, Dai Y, Li Q, Zhang H. Ecological risk assessment and identification of the distinct microbial groups in heavy metal-polluted river sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 2023; 45:1311-1329. [PMID: 35939250 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-022-01343-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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To assess the health of river ecosystems, it is essential to quantify the ecological risk of heavy metals in river sediments and the structure of microbial communities. As important tributaries of the Tuo River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Mianyuan River and the Shiting River, are closely related to the economic development and human daily life in the region. This study assessed the ecological risks of heavy-metal-polluted river sediments, the heavy-metal-driven bacterial communities were revealed, and the relationships between the ecological risks and the identical bacterial communities were discussed. The Cd content was significantly greater than the environmental background value, leading to a serious pollution and very high ecological risk at the confluence of the two rivers and the upper reaches of the Mianyuan River. Microbial community analysis showed that Rhodobacter, Nocardioides, Sphingomonas, and Pseudarthrobacter were the dominant bacterial genera in the sediments of the Shiting River. However, the dominant bacterial genera in the Mianyuan River were Kouleothrix, Dechloromonas, Gaiella, Pedomicrobium, and Hyphomicrobium. Mantel test results showed (r = 0.5977, P = 0.005) that the Cd, As, Zn, Pb, Cr, and Cu were important factors that influenced differences in the distribution of sediment bacterial communities Mianyuan and Shiting rivers. A correlation heatmap showed that heavy metals were negatively correlated for most bacterial communities, but some bacterial communities were tolerant and showed a positive correlation. Overall, the microbial structure of the river sediments showed a diverse spatial distribution due to the influence of heavy metals. The results will improve the understanding of rivers contaminated by heavy metals and provide theoretical support for conservation and in situ ecological restoration of river ecosystems.
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- Cheng Yang
- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China
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- Sichuan Academy of Environmental Science, Chengdu, 610000, China
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- Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 610075, China
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- Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 610075, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.
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Wang G, Ren Y, Bai X, Su Y, Han J. Contributions of Beneficial Microorganisms in Soil Remediation and Quality Improvement of Medicinal Plants. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:3200. [PMID: 36501240 PMCID: PMC9740990 DOI: 10.3390/plants11233200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Medicinal plants (MPs) are important resources widely used in the treatment and prevention of diseases and have attracted much attention owing to their significant antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and other activities. However, soil degradation, caused by continuous cropping, excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticide residues and heavy metal contamination, seriously restricts the growth and quality formation of MPs. Microorganisms, as the major biota in soil, play a critical role in the restoration of the land ecosystem. Rhizosphere microecology directly or indirectly affects the growth and development, metabolic regulation and active ingredient accumulation of MPs. Microbial resources, with the advantages of economic efficiency, harmless to environment and non-toxic to organisms, have been recommended as a promising alternative to conventional fertilizers and pesticides. The introduction of beneficial microbes promotes the adaptability of MPs to adversity stress by enhancing soil fertility, inhibiting pathogens and inducing systemic resistance. On the other hand, it can improve the medicinal quality by removing soil pollutants, reducing the absorption and accumulation of harmful substances and regulating the synthesis of secondary metabolites. The ecological and economic benefits of the soil microbiome in agricultural practices are increasingly recognized, but the current understanding of the interaction between soil conditions, root exudates and microbial communities and the mechanism of rhizosphere microecology affecting the secondary metabolism of MPs is still quite limited. More research is needed to investigate the effects of the microbiome on the growth and quality of different medicinal species. Therefore, the present review summarizes the main soil issues in medicinal plant cultivation, the functions of microbes in soil remediation and plant growth promotion and the potential mechanism to further guide the use of microbial resources to promote the ecological cultivation and sustainable development of MPs.
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Sattar S, Hussain R, Shah SM, Bibi S, Ahmad SR, Shahzad A, Zamir A, Rauf Z, Noshad A, Ahmad L. Composition, impacts, and removal of liquid petroleum waste through bioremediation as an alternative clean-up technology: A review. Heliyon 2022; 8:e11101. [PMID: 36281410 PMCID: PMC9586903 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 06/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Exposure to hazardous wastes, especially petroleum wastes hydrocarbon (PWHCs), can damage human health and biological diversity. A huge amount of petroleum waste along with persistent organic pollutants is being generated during exploration and processing of crude oil. The dumping of petroleum waste hydrocarbons in an open pit contaminates the soil which can cause severe threats to human health and agro-geo-environmental ecosystem. The current study aimed to evaluate the mode of occurrence, composition, environmental, and health impacts of petroleum waste by using recent literature. The extracted results show that oil emulsion contains 48% oil, suspension 23%, settled emulsion 42%, and sludge emulsion 36%. The study discusses the possible biological techniques for rehabilitation of petroleum waste-contaminated areas. Several physical and chemical techniques are available for remediation of petroleum waste, but they are either costly or environmentally not feasible. Whereas, biological remediation namely, Bioremediation (Biostimulation and Bioaugmentation), Phytoremediation (Phytodegradation, Rhizoremediation, Phytovolatilization, and Rhizo-filtration) is a cheap and environmentally friendly way to remove petroleum waste hydrocarbons from contaminated soil and water. Some important enzymes (i.e., peroxidase, nitrilase, nitroreductase, phosphatase) and plant species i.e., Acacia and Chloris species are prominent methods to remediate the PWHCs. The knowledge assembled in this review is expected to create new doors for researchers to develop more efficient techniques to control the harmful impacts of PWHCs on the environment and health.
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- Shehla Sattar
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Swabi, KP 23561, Pakistan,National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan
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- National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan,College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, 54590, Pakistan,Corresponding author.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Swabi, KP 23561, Pakistan
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- College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, 54590, Pakistan
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- Department of Botany, Mohi-Ud-Din Islamic University, AJ&K, Pakistan
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- Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan
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- Department of Geology, University of Swabi, KP 23561, Pakistan
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- Department of Agriculture, Bacha Khan University, KP, Pakistan
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- Department of Geology, University of Swabi, KP 23561, Pakistan
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Liang C, Ye Q, Huang Y, Wang Y, Zhang Z, Wang H. Shifts of the new functional marker gene (pahE) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) degrading bacterial population and its relationship with PAHs biodegradation. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2022; 437:129305. [PMID: 35709619 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Revised: 05/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) degrading bacterial populations and understanding their responses to PAHs are crucial for the designing of appropriate bioremediation strategies. In this study, the responses of PAHs-degrading bacterial populations to different PAHs were studied in terms of the compositions and abundance variations of their new functional marker gene (pahE) by gene-targeted metagenomic and qPCR analysis. Overall, PAHs species significantly affected the composition and abundance of pahE gene within the PAHs-degrading bacteria in each treatment and different pahE of PAHs-degrading bacteria involved in the different stages of PAHs degradation. Noted that new pahE genotypes were also discovered in all PAHs treatment groups, indicating that some potential new PAHs-degrading bacterial genera were also involved in PAHs degradation. Besides, all three PAH removal rates were significantly positively related with pahE gene abundances (R2 = 0.908 ~ 0.922, p < 0.01), demonstrating that pahE could be a good indicator of PAHs degradation activity or potential. This is the first study focusing on the dynamic changes of the pahE gene within PAHs-degrading bacterial community during the degradation of PAHs in mangrove sediment, providing novel insights into the use of pahE gene as the functional marker to indicate PAH degradation.
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- Chengyue Liang
- State Key Joint Laboratory on Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory on Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory on Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory on Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory on Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory on Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Yan Y, Sun L, Xing X, Wu H, Lu X, Zhang W, Xu J, Ren Q. Microbial succession and exploration of higher alcohols-producing core bacteria in northern Huangjiu fermentation. AMB Express 2022; 12:79. [PMID: 35716260 PMCID: PMC9206695 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-022-01418-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Higher alcohols (HAs) are abundant compounds that provide important flavors in Huangjiu, but they also cause hangover. Previous studies have shown the production of HAs to be related to yeast, but the correlations between HAs and other microorganisms are rarely reported. In this study, we detected changes in levels of HAs and microbial dynamics during the Huangjiu fermentation process. Relationships were characterized using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The functional core HA-producing bacteria were selected by bidirectional orthogonal partial least squares (O2PLS). The result showed that 2-methyl-1-propanol, phenethyl alcohol and 3-methyl-1-butanol were the principle HAs present at high levels. Lactococcus and Saccharomyces were predominant at the genus level of bacteria and fungi, respectively. A total of 684 correlations between HAs and microorganisms were established. Five genera were screened as functional core HA-producing bacteria. Our findings might provide some new inspiration for controlling the content of HAs, enhancing international prestige and market expansion of Huangjiu.
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- Yi Yan
- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Brewing Molecular Engineering of China Light Industry, Beijing, 100048, China
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- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Brewing Molecular Engineering of China Light Industry, Beijing, 100048, China
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- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Brewing Molecular Engineering of China Light Industry, Beijing, 100048, China
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- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Brewing Molecular Engineering of China Light Industry, Beijing, 100048, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China. .,Key Laboratory of Brewing Molecular Engineering of China Light Industry, Beijing, 100048, China.
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- School of Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China. .,Key Laboratory of Brewing Molecular Engineering of China Light Industry, Beijing, 100048, China.
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Hui K, Cui Y, Tan W. Nitrogen input leads to the differential accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the low- and high-density fractions in sewage-irrigated farmland soil. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 297:118813. [PMID: 35007675 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2021] [Revised: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Because of a shortage of water resources, sewage irrigation has become a popular management tool for farmland soil in arid areas of China; however, this has led to the accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil. Soil is an important component of ecosystems, and nitrogen is an important nutrient required for plant growth. Nitrogen input can alter the physical, chemical, and biological processes in soil and thus lead to changes in soil organic matter and organic pollutants. However, whether these changes affect the accumulation of PAHs and whether such accumulation differs in the low-density fraction (LF) and high-density fraction (HF) of soil remains unclear. In this study, the response of PAHs in soil to nitrogen input (0, 100, 200, and 300 kg N ha-1 yr-1, respectively), including differences in LF and HF, were investigated through field experiments in a typical sewage-irrigated area. The results showed that nitrogen input could increase the concentrations of PAHs in soil from (7.6 ± 1.1) × 103 to (10.4 ± 0.6) × 103 μg kg-1 and lead to striking differences between the LF ((5.06 ± 0.75) × 103 to (1.89 ± 0.18) × 103 μg kg-1) and HF ((2.54 ± 0.36) × 103 to (8.54 ± 0.44) × 103 μg kg-1). Given the significant increase in global nitrogen input, our findings have implications for the optimization and management of agricultural activities in sewage irrigation areas, such as soil investigation before fertilization, the use of soil improvers, and the improvement of soil planting measures.
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- Kunlong Hui
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China.
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Hui K, Kou B, Jiang Y, Wu Y, Xu Q, Tan W. Nitrogen addition increases the ecological and human health risks of PAHs in different fractions of soil in sewage-irrigated area. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 811:151420. [PMID: 34748843 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nitrogen (N) is one of the most important nutrients required by soil and crops. N addition improves soil quality and fertility. However, long-term N addition changes the soil environment, which may affect the adsorption and accumulation of organic pollutants in soil. The adsorption of pollutants by the light fractions (LF) and heavy fractions (HF) of soil, and their resulting risks, might differ. In addition, several organic pollutants, especially PAHs, accumulate in farmland soil under long-term sewage irrigation. However, few studies have examined the response of PAHs to N addition in soil in sewage-irrigated areas, including whether there is a difference in the response of the LF and HF of soil. Here, a long-term experiment was carried out in farmland soils in typical sewage-irrigated areas to reveal the adsorption and accumulation of PAHs in bulk soil, LF, and HF, and the human health and ecological environment risks posed by PAHs under different levels of N addition. Under long-term N addition, the concentration of PAHs in soil increased and fluctuated from 7598 μg kg-1 to 10,414 μg kg-1. Significant differences in the PAHs concentration in the LF (5048 μg kg-1 to 1889 μg kg-1) and HF (2536 μg kg-1 to 8521 μg kg-1) and the human health and ecological risks of soil with N addition in typical sewage-irrigated areas were observed. The HF of soil was characterized by low carcinogenic and ecological risks. The results of our research provide insight into possible management actions that could be taken to enhance the environmental protection and safety of agricultural production activities, such as sustainability fertilization.
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- Kunlong Hui
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China; School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Shaanxi, Xi'an 710065, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Shiyou University, Shaanxi, Xi'an 710065, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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Short-Term Effects of Reclamation of Aquaculture Ponds to Paddy Fields on Soil Chemical Properties and Bacterial Communities in Eastern China Coastal Zone. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14031613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Large areas of tidal flats were previously developed into aquaculture ponds and were recently encouraged to be converted into paddy fields to fulfill food and economic needs in China. However, the influences of short-term rice cultivation at the reclaimed aquaculture ponds on soil chemical properties and bacterial communities are poorly understood. To address this issue, we collected mineral soil samples at 0–20 and 20–40 cm depths from non-cultivated soils and paddy fields after being reclaimed from aquaculture ponds in Nantong, China, and identified soil bacterial communities using high-throughput sequencing. The results suggested that rice cultivation significantly increased the accumulation of total soil carbon (TC) and dissolved organic carbon (WSOC). The pH, ammonium (NH4+), nitrate (NO3−) and available phosphorus (AP) varied with the reclamation duration but did not show a unanimous tendency. Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi and Planctomycetes dominated the bacterial community in both non-cultivated and cultivated soils after reclamation regardless of cultivation ages and soil depth. The variations in the diversity and composition of the soil microbial community were mainly associated with electrical conductivity (EC), WSOC, TC, NH4+ and NO3− in non-cultivated and cultivated lands. Here, we found that short-term rice cultivation at the reclaimed aquaculture ponds strongly influenced soil bacterial communities and chemical properties, especially in the 0–20 cm depth, in the coastal regions.
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Kong X, Bai Z, Jin T, Jin D, Pan J, Yu X, Cernava T. Arthrobacter is a universal responder to di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) contamination in soils from various geographical locations. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2022; 422:126914. [PMID: 34419851 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.126914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Plasticizer phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are commonly found as contaminants in various soils. Previous studies indicated that their natural degradation can substantially differ among soil types; however, potential implications of the soil microbiome remained largely unexplored. Here, we have collected ten soil types from nine different geographical regions of China to investigate the degradation of DBP therein and role of bacteria in this process. Results showed that the degradation rate of DBP was lowest in nutrient-poor red soils from Jiangxi Province, while it was highest in fluvo-aquatic soil from Hebei Province. Bacterial community responses to DBP substantially differed in each of the analyzed soils. Arthrobacter is known for its broad-spectrum activity in terms of DBP degradation in soil and was therefore implemented as bioremediating inoculant in many polluted environments. In the present study, network analyses indicated that synergism between soil bacteria increased following exposure to DBP. Arthrobacter and Sphingomonas were found to expand their positive interactions with other members of the microbiome in DBP-contaminated soils. The overall findings of our study provide a basis for biomarker development for detection of DBP contaminations and an extended basis for future bioremediation approaches based on beneficial bacteria.
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- Xiao Kong
- School of Public Health, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266021, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- Hunan Vegetable Research Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
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- Rural Energy and Environment Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100125, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou 014010, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety-State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base, Ministry of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, Graz 8010, Austria
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Wang Z, Ji X, Wang S, Wu Q, Xu Y. Sugar profile regulates the microbial metabolic diversity in Chinese Baijiu fermentation. Int J Food Microbiol 2021; 359:109426. [PMID: 34627066 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2021.109426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Revised: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cereals are widely used as raw material for food fermentation, and they can provide a variety of sugars in the fermentation via saccharification. However, the effect of sugar profile on microbial metabolism in spontaneous food fermentation is still unclear. Here, this work studied the regulation of sugar profile on the diversity of microbiota and their metabolism in Chinese Baijiu fermentation using sorghum as raw material. Six sugars were detected during Baijiu fermentation with 6 different cultivars of sorghum. The diversity of microbiota (ANOSIM: bacteria: P = 0.001, R = 0.77; fungi: P = 0.009, R = 0.33) and metabolites (ANOSIM: P = 0.001, R = 0.50) had different profiles during Baijiu fermentation. Among these sugars, glucose, fructose, and arabinose were identified as key sugars driving both the microbial and the metabolic diversity during Chinese Baijiu fermentation, and the metabolic diversity was positively correlated with the microbial diversity (P < 0.05). Hence, response surface methodology was used to establish a predictive model for regulating the metabolic diversity with the combination of three key sugars. The metabolic diversity significantly increased to 0.42 with the optimized levels of glucose (31.82 g/L), fructose (4.81 g/L), and arabinose (0.20 g/L), compared with unoptimized low-level average metabolic diversity (0.29). This work would provide a strategy to control microbial metabolism in spontaneous food fermentation, hence to improve the quality of fermented foods.
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- Zheng Wang
- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China.
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- Lab of Brewing Microbiology and Applied Enzymology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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Han L, Kong X, Xu M, Nie J. Repeated exposure to fungicide tebuconazole alters the degradation characteristics, soil microbial community and functional profiles. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 287:117660. [PMID: 34426382 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Tebuconazole is a broad-spectrum triazole fungicide that has been extensively applied in agriculture, but its toxicity on soil ecology remains unknown after repeated introduction to soil. This study investigated the degradation of tebuconazole and the changes in soil microbial community composition and functional diversity as well as network complexity in soil repeatedly treated with tebuconazole. Tebuconazole degraded slowly as the degradation half-life initially increased and then decreased during the four repeated treatments. High concentration of tebuconazole treatment significantly delayed the degradation of tebuconazole. The soil microbial functional diversity in tebuconazole-treated soils showed an inhibition-recovery-stimulation trend with increasing treatment frequency, which was related to the increased degradation rates of tebuconazole. Tebuconazole significantly decreased soil microbial biomass and bacterial community diversity, and this decreasing trend became more pronounced with increasing treatment frequency and concentration. Moreover, tebuconazole significantly decreased soil bacterial community network complexity, particularly at high concentration of tebuconazole treatment. Notably, four bacterial genera, Methylobacterium, Burkholderia, Hyphomicrobium, and Dermacoccus, were identified as the potential tebuconazole-degrading bacteria, with the relative abundances in the tebuconazole treatment significantly increasing by 42.1-34687.1% compared to the control. High concentration of tebuconazole treatment delayed increases in the relative abundances of Methylobacterium but promoted those of Burkholderia, Hyphomicrobium and Dermacoccus. Additionally, repeated tebuconazole treatments improved only four metabolic pathways, cell motility, membrane transport, environmental information processing, and xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism, which were associated with the degradation of tebuconazole. The above results indicated that repeated tebuconazole treatments resulted in the significant accumulation of residues and long-term negative effects on soil ecology, and also emphasized the potential roles of dominant indigenous microbial bacteria in the degradation of tebuconazole.
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- Lingxi Han
- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- College of Horticulture, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, 266109, China; Qingdao Key Lab of Modern Agriculture Quality and Safety Engineering, Qingdao, 266109, China.
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Gu H, Yan K, You Q, Chen Y, Pan Y, Wang H, Wu L, Xu J. Soil indigenous microorganisms weaken the synergy of Massilia sp. WF1 and Phanerochaete chrysosporium in phenanthrene biodegradation. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 781:146655. [PMID: 33798893 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Biodegradation is a promising way to reduce phenanthrene (PHE) in environment. PHE biodegradation by bioaugmentation of axenic and mixed cultures of Massilia sp. WF1 (a highly efficient PHE-degrading bacteria) and Phanerochaete chrysosporium (P. chrysosporium, an extensively researched model fungus in organic pollutant bioremediation) was investigated in aqueous and autoclaved/un-autoclaved soil cultures. In the liquid cultures, the strain WF1 could use PHE (ca. 10 mg L-1) as the sole carbon source, and the presence of d-fructose (500 mg L-1) had no obvious effect on its PHE degradation; while the opposite was observed for P. chrysosporium. The bioaugmentation of strain WF1 and P. chrysosporium co-culture showed the highest PHE-degradation efficiency, especially in the aqueous and the autoclaved soil (PHE, ca. 50 mg kg-1) cultures, indicating a synergistic interaction of the co-culture during PHE dissipation. It was further observed that the indigenous microorganisms (mainly the Gram-positive bacteria) played a dominant role during PHE biodegradation and showed an antagonistic action against the strain WF1-P. chrysosporium co-culture, which weakened the synergistic action of the co-culture in the un-autoclaved soil. Besides, the abundances of PAH-RHDα GP and nidA genes were negatively correlated with residual PHE in the soil. Our findings provide the scientific support for bioremediation of PAHs in environment.
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- Haiping Gu
- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Beihai Tieshangang District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Beihai, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Ferraro A, Massini G, Miritana VM, Panico A, Pontoni L, Race M, Rosa S, Signorini A, Fabbricino M, Pirozzi F. Bioaugmentation strategy to enhance polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons anaerobic biodegradation in contaminated soils. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 275:130091. [PMID: 33984916 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This paper proposes an innovative bioaugmentation approach for the remediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contaminated soils, based on a novel habitat-based strategy. This approach was tested using two inocula (i-24 and i-96) previously enriched through an anaerobic digestion process on wheat straw. It relies on the application of allochthonous microorganisms characterized by specific functional roles obtained by mimicking a natural hydrolytic environment such as the rumen. The inocula efficiency was tested in presence of naphthalene alone, benzo[a]pyrene alone, and a mix of both of them. In single-contamination tests, i-24 inoculum showed the highest biodegradation rates (84.7% for naphthalene and 51.7% for benzo[a]pyrene). These values were almost 1.2 times higher than those obtained for both contaminants with i-96 inoculum and in the control test in presence of naphthalene alone, while they were 3 times higher compared to the control test in presence of benzo[a]pyrene alone. In mixed-contamination tests, i-96 inoculum showed final biodegradation efficiencies for naphthalene and benzo[a]pyrene between 1.1 and 1.5 higher than i-24 inoculum or autochthonous biomass. Total microbial abundances increased in the bioaugmented tests in line with the PAH degradation. The microbial community structure showed the highest diversity at the end of the experiment in almost all cases. Values of the Firmicutes active fraction up to 7 times lower were observed in the i-24 bioaugmented tests compared to i-96 and control tests. This study highlights a successful bioaugmentation strategy with biological components that can be reused in multiple processes supporting an integrated and environmentally sustainable bioremediation system.
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- Alberto Ferraro
- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II", Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy; Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Energy Technologies, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Via Anguillarese 301, 00123, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Energy Technologies, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Via Anguillarese 301, 00123, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Engineering, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Via Roma, 29, 81031, Aversa, Italy; Telematic University Pegaso, Piazza Trieste e Trento 48, Naples, Italy.
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II", Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Via di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino, Italy
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- Department of Energy Technologies, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Via Anguillarese 301, 00123, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Energy Technologies, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Via Anguillarese 301, 00123, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II", Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II", Via Claudio 21, 80125, Naples, Italy
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Liu H, Lin H, Song B, Sun X, Xu R, Kong T, Xu F, Li B, Sun W. Stable-isotope probing coupled with high-throughput sequencing reveals bacterial taxa capable of degrading aniline at three contaminated sites with contrasting pH. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 771:144807. [PMID: 33548700 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Revised: 12/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The biodegradation of aniline is an important process related to the attenuation of aniline pollution at contaminated sites. Aniline contamination could occur in various pH (i.e., acidic, neutral, and alkaline) environments. However, little is known about preferred pH conditions of diverse aniline degraders at different sites. This study investigated the active aniline degraders present under contrasting pH environments using three aniline-contaminated cultures, namely, acidic sludge (ACID-S, pH 3.1), neutral river sediment (NEUS, pH 6.6), and alkaline paddy soil (ALKP, pH 8.7). Here, DNA-based stable isotope probing coupled with high-throughput sequencing revealed that aniline degradation was associated with Armatimonadetes sp., Tepidisphaerales sp., and Rhizobiaceae sp. in ACID-S; Thauera sp., Zoogloea sp., and Acidovorax sp. in NEUS; Delftia sp., Thauera sp., and Nocardioides sp. in ALKP. All the putative aniline-degrading bacteria identified were present in the "core" microbiome of these three cultures; however, only an appropriate pH may facilitate their ability to metabolize aniline. In addition, the biotic interactions between putative aniline-degrading bacteria and non-direct degraders showed different characteristics in three cultures, suggesting aniline-degrading bacteria employ diverse survival strategies in different pH environments. These findings expand our current knowledge regarding the diversity of aniline degraders and the environments they inhabit, and provide guidance related to the bioremediation of aniline contaminated sites with complex pH environments.
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- Huaqing Liu
- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China.
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Variations in Soil Enzyme Activities and Microbial Communities along an Altitudinal Gradient on the Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. FORESTS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/f12060681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is the highest plateau in the world and is sensitive to climate change. The dynamics of soil enzyme activities and microbial communities are good indicators of alpine biochemical processes during warming. We collected topsoil (0–10 cm) and subsoil (10–20 cm) samples at altitudes of 3200–4000 m; determined the activities of β-1,4-glucosidase (BG), cellobiohydrolase (CBH), β-1,4-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase (NAG) and acid phosphomonoesterase (PME); and performed Illumina 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing. We found that the soil carbon (total organic carbon and dissolved organic carbon) and nitrogen (total nitrogen and dissolved organic nitrogen) fluctuated with altitude in both the topsoil and subsoil, whereas the dissolved phosphorus continuously decreased with the increasing altitude. BG and CBH decreased from 3200 to 3600 m and increased from 3800 to 4000 m, with the lowest levels occurring at 3600 m (topsoil) and 3800 m (subsoil). NAG and PME showed similar fluctuations with altitude, with the highest levels occurring at 3400 m and 4000 m in both the topsoil and subsoil. Generally, the altitudes from 3600 to 3800 m were an ecological transition belt where most of the nutrients and enzyme activities reached their lowest levels. All of the alpine soils shared similar dominant phyla, including Proteobacteria (32.7%), Acidobacteria (30.2%), Actinobacteria (7.7%), Bacteroidetes (4.4%), Planctomycetes (2.9%), Firmicutes (2.3%), Gemmatimonadetes (2.0%), Chloroflexi, (1.2%) and Nitrospirae (1.2%); Gemmatimonadetes and Verrucomicrobia were significantly affected by soil depth and Planctomycetes, Firmicutes, Gemmatimonadetes, Nitrospirae, Latescibacteria and Armatimonadetes were significantly affected by altitude. In addition, nutrient availability, enzyme activity and microbial diversity were higher in the topsoil than in the subsoil, and they had more significant correlations in the subsoil than in the topsoil. Our results provide useful insights into the close linkages between soil nutrient cycling and microbial activities on the eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, and are of great significance for further assessing the long-term impact of environmental changes in the alpine ecosystems.
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Rajkumari J, Choudhury Y, Bhattacharjee K, Pandey P. Rhizodegradation of Pyrene by a Non-pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate Applied With Tagetes erecta L. and Changes in the Rhizobacterial Community. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:593023. [PMID: 33708179 PMCID: PMC7940843 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.593023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The non-clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae variants, isolated from different environments, are now well acknowledged for their role in plant-growth promotion and biodegradation of pollutants. In the present study, a non-clinical environmental isolate K. pneumoniae AWD5 is being described for rhizoremediation of pyrene, applied through the rhizosphere of an ornamental plant, Tagetes erecta L (marigold). The non-pathogenic nature of AWD5 was established using an in vivo mouse model experiment, where AWD5 was unable to cause lung infection in tested mice. Degradation of pyrene, in the presence of succinate as co-substrate, was observed to be 87.5% by AWD5, after 21 days of incubation in minimal (Bushnell–Hass) medium in vitro conditions. Consequently, the bacterial inoculation through the rhizosphere of T. erecta L. plants resulted in 68.61% degradation of pyrene, which was significantly higher than control soil. Inoculation of AWD5 also improved plant growth and exhibited an increase in root length (14.64%), dry root weight (80.56%), shoot length (3.26%), and dry shoot weight (45.35%) after 60 days of incubation. T. erecta L., an ornamental plant, was also found to be suitable for bioremediation of pyrene. The effect of AWD5 application, and rhizoremediation process, on rhizosphere bacterial diversity and community structure has been studied using the metagenomic analysis of the 16S (V3–V4) region of rRNA. 37 bacterial phyla constituted the core microbiome, which was dominated by Proteobacteria followed by Actinobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Planctomycetes for all the treatments. AWD5 inoculation enhanced the relative abundance of Firmicutes and Acidobacteria as compared with other treatments. Genus Kaistobacter and Verrucomicrobia were found to be an abundant indigenous population in pyrene-spiked soils. Bacterial richness and diversity were analyzed using the Shannon–Wiener (H) index. A lower diversity index was observed in pyrene-spiked soils. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) showed a possible linkage with plant growth attributes and available nitrogen content that influences diversity and abundance of the bacterial community.
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- Jina Rajkumari
- Department of Microbiology, Assam University, Silchar, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Assam University, Silchar, India
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Wang T, Su D, Wang X, He Z. Adsorption-Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil by Immobilized Mixed Bacteria and Its Effect on Microbial Communities. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2020; 68:14907-14916. [PMID: 33274638 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c04752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The combined action of biosorption and biodegradation can achieve a remarkable reduction of organic pollutants. In this study, Pseudomonas sp. SDR4 and Mortierella alpina JDR7 were selected as the representative microorganisms to investigate adsorption and degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil using immobilization technology and the subsequent change of the microbial community structure. The results showed that the adsorption capacity of immobilized carriers was much higher than that of dead microorganisms and that the addition of dead microorganisms did not affect the adsorption characteristics of immobilized carriers. The chemical reaction was the major factor controlling the adsorption rate of PAHs in sterilized soil (CK), nonsterilized soil (CK-1), and soil amended with dead body immobilized JDR7 and SDR4 mixed bacteria (MB-D). The growth and metabolism of Pseudomonas sp. SDR4 and M. alpina JDR7 are the main reason for enhanced PAH degradation in the soil amended with living body immobilized JDR7, SDR4 mixed bacteria (MB).
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- Tianjie Wang
- College of Environment Science, Liaoning University, 66 Chongshan Middle Street, Huanggu District, Shenyang 110036, P. R. China
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- College of Environment Science, Liaoning University, 66 Chongshan Middle Street, Huanggu District, Shenyang 110036, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-Remediation of Regional Contaminated Environment, Ministry of Education, Shenyang University, Shenyang 110044, P. R. China
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- University of Florida-IFAS, Indian River Research and Education Center, Fort Pierce, Florida 34945-3138, United States
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Shen T, Liu J, Wu Q, Xu Y. Increasing 2-furfurylthiol content in Chinese sesame-flavored Baijiu via inoculating the producer of precursor l-cysteine in Baijiu fermentation. Food Res Int 2020; 138:109757. [PMID: 33292940 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Revised: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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2-Furfurylthiol was an important contributor to the flavor of traditional fermented foods including Baijiu. It is essential to increase 2-furfurylthiol concentration to improve the quality of Baijiu. This study aimed to enrich the content of 2-furfurylthiol in Chinese sesame-flavored Baijiu via two strains we isolated from Baijiu fermentation, Bacillus subtilis LBM 10019 and Bacillus vallismortis LBM 10020, which could respectively produce 56.31 mg/L and 42.81 mg/L l-cysteine, the precursor of 2-furfurylthiol, in sorghum extract. After inoculation of these two strains, the maximal relative abundance of Bacillus increased from 7.48% to 40.38%, the final content of l-cysteine increased by 101.44% in Baijiu fermentation. Moreover, the concentration of 2-furfurylthiol increased by 89.15% in the production. This work provides a novel strategy to improve the quality of Chinese sesame-flavored Baijiu.
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- Ting Shen
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100037, China; Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China.
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Zhou J, Ge W, Zhang X, Wu J, Chen Q, Ma D, Chai C. Effects of spent mushroom substrate on the dissipation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in agricultural soil. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 259:127462. [PMID: 32590177 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Spent mushroom substrate (SMS) is an agricultural waste with a high potential for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) removal in aged contaminated soils. In this study, fresh and air-dried Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii, and Auricularia auricular SMSs were used to remove PAHs in agricultural soil under 60-day incubation. The potential of SMS in PAH dissipation was studied by detecting the dissipation rate and the soil physicochemical index, enzyme activity, PAH-degradation bacterial biomass, and microbial diversity. Results showed that SMS significantly enhanced the dissipation of PAHs and fresh SMS had a better effect than air-dried SMS. The highest dissipation rate of 16 PAHs was 34.5%, which was observed in soil amended with fresh P. eryngii SMS, and the PAH dissipation rates with low and high molecular weights were 41.3% and 19.4%, respectively. By comparison, fresh P. eryngii SMS presented high nutrient contents, which promoted the development of PAH-degrading bacteria and changed the soil bacterial community involved in degradation, thereby promoting the PAH dissipation. The lignin-degrading enzymes in fresh SMS were abundant, and the laccase and manganese peroxidase activities in the treatment of fresh P. eryngii SMS was higher than those in other treatments. Fresh P. eryngii SMS improved the relative abundance of Microbacterium, Rhizobium, and Pseudomonas in soil, which were all related to PAH degradation. Consequently, adding fresh P. eryngii SMS was an effective method for remediating aged PAH-contaminated agricultural soils.
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- Jiajing Zhou
- Qingdao Engineering Research Center for Rural Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- Qingdao Engineering Research Center for Rural Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- Qingdao Engineering Research Center for Rural Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- Qingdao Engineering Research Center for Rural Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- Qingdao Engineering Research Center for Rural Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China
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- Qingdao Engineering Research Center for Rural Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China; Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, Qingdao, 266109, China.
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Geng S, Cao W, Yuan J, Wang Y, Guo Y, Ding A, Zhu Y, Dou J. Microbial diversity and co-occurrence patterns in deep soils contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2020; 203:110931. [PMID: 32684516 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.110931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Numerous studies have enriched our knowledge of the microbial community composition and metabolic versatility of contaminated soil. However, there remains a substantial gap regarding the bioassembly patterns of the indigenous microbial community distribution in contaminated deep soils. Herein, the indigenous microbial community structure diversity, function, and co-occurrence relationships in aged PAH-contaminated deep soil collected from an abandoned chemical facility were investigated using high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that the dominant phyla in all samples were responsible for PAH degradation and included Proteobacteria (20.86%-81.37%), Chloroflexi (2.03%-28.44%), Firmicutes (3.06%-31.16%), Actinobacteria (2.92%-11.91%), Acidobacteria (0.41%-12.68%), and Nitrospirae (0.81%-9.21%). Eighty biomarkers were obtained by linear discriminant analysis of effect size (LEfSe), and most of these biomarkers were PAH degraders. Functional predictions using Tax4Fun indicated that the aged contaminated soil has the potential for PAH degradation. Statistical analysis showed that in contrast with the PAH concentration, edaphic properties (nutrients and pH) were significantly correlated (r > 0.25, P < 0.01) with the bacterial community and functional composition. Co-occurrence network analysis (modularity index of 0.781) revealed non-random assembly patterns of the bacterial communities in the PAH-contaminated soils. The modules in the network were mainly involved in carbon and nitrogen cycles, organic substance degradation, and biological electron transfer processes. Microbes from the same module had strong ecological linkages. Additionally, SAR202 clade, Thermoanaerobaculum, Nitrospira, and Xanthomonadales, which were identified as keystone species, played an irreplaceable role in the network. Overall, our results suggested that environmental factors such as nutrients and pH, together with ecological function, are the main factors driving the assembly of microbial communities in aged PAH-contaminated deep soils.
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- Shuying Geng
- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
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- Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education on Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
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Sivaram AK, Subashchandrabose SR, Logeshwaran P, Lockington R, Naidu R, Megharaj M. Rhizodegradation of PAHs differentially altered by C3 and C4 plants. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16109. [PMID: 32999304 PMCID: PMC7527560 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72844-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Pyrosequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) was employed to characterize bacterial communities colonizing the rhizosphere of plants with C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways grown in soil contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) after 60 and 120 days. The results of this study exhibited a clear difference in bacterial diversity between the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere samples and between the rhizospheres of the C3 and C4 plants after 120 days. In both C3 and C4 rhizospheres, an incremental change in PAHs degrading bacterial genera was observed in the 120th day samples compared to the 60th day ones. Among the PAHs degrading bacterial genera, Pseudomonas showed good resistance to PAHs in the 120th day rhizosphere of both C3 and C4 plants. Conversely, the genus Sphingomonas showed sensitivity to PAHs in the 120th day rhizosphere soils of C3 plants only. Also, a significant increase in the PAHs degrading genera was observed at 120th day in the C4 rhizosphere in comparison to the C3 rhizosphere, which was reflected in a reduced PAHs concentration measured in the soil remediated with C4 plants rather than C3 plants. These results suggest that the rhizoremediation of PAHs was primarily governed by the plant photosystems, which led to differences in root secretions that caused the variation in bacterial diversity seen in the rhizospheres. This study is the first report to demonstrate the greater effectiveness of C4 plants in enhancing the PAHs degrading bacterial community than C3 plants.
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- Anithadevi Kenday Sivaram
- Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment, Advanced Technology Centre, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment, Advanced Technology Centre, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment, Advanced Technology Centre, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment, Advanced Technology Centre, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment, Advanced Technology Centre, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.,Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia. .,Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environment, Advanced Technology Centre, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia. .,Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
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Du J, Zhou Q, Wu J, Li G, Li G, Wu Y. Vegetation alleviate the negative effects of graphene oxide on benzo[a]pyrene dissipation and the associated soil bacterial community. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 253:126725. [PMID: 32298916 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Revised: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Graphene oxide (GO) will enter the soil environment in increasing amounts. The effects of GO on the dissipation of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) from contaminated soil and their phytoremediation system have been explored in this study. B[a]P is a ubiquitous soil pollutant used as a representative indicator of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. A pot experiment was performed to investigate the effects of GO or/and vegetation (Tagetes patula) on B[a]P dissipation and the associated bacterial communities in soil. The bacterial communities in soil were investigated by Illumina sequencing analysis. The presence of vegetation significantly enhanced the dissipation of B[a]P from soil. The addition of GO (100 mg/kg) significantly decreased the B[a]P dissipation. When vegetation and GO coexisted, the inhibition effects of GO on B[a]P dissipation were alleviated by vegetation. Compared with the control treatment, the presence of GO or vegetation had no significant effects on the richness and diversity of bacterial communities in B[a]P-contaminated soil. Compared with the presence of only vegetation, the richness and diversity all significantly decreased when vegetation and GO coexisted. And, vegetation had a greater influence on the bacterial community composition than GO. Vegetation alleviated the inhibition effects of GO on B[a]P dissipation and had a greater influence on the associated bacterial communities than GO. This work helps to understand the interactive effects of GO and vegetation on B[a]P dissipation and the associated bacterial communities in contaminated soil.
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- Junjie Du
- College of Food Science, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, 041004, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, 100022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria (Ministry of Education), Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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- College of Food Science, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, 041004, China
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- College of Food Science, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, 041004, China
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- College of Food Science, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, 041004, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, 100022, China.
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Temperature-Induced Annual Variation in Microbial Community Changes and Resulting Metabolome Shifts in a Controlled Fermentation System. mSystems 2020; 5:5/4/e00555-20. [PMID: 32694129 PMCID: PMC7566281 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00555-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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We used Chinese liquor fermentation as a model system to show that microbiome composition changes more dramatically across seasons than throughout the fermentation process within seasons. These changes translate to differences in the metabolome as the ultimate functional outcome of microbial activity, suggesting that temporal changes in microbiome composition are translating into functional changes. This result is striking as it suggests that microbial functioning, despite controlled conditions in the fermentors, fluctuates over season along with external temperature differences, which threatens a reproducible food taste. As such, we believe that our study provides a stepping-stone into novel taxonomy-functional studies that promote future work in other systems and that also is relevant in applied settings to better control surrounding conditions in food production. We are rapidly increasing our understanding on the spatial distribution of microbial communities. However, microbial functioning, as well as temporal differences and mechanisms causing microbial community shifts, remains comparably little explored. Here, using Chinese liquor fermentation as a model system containing a low microbial diversity, we studied temporal changes in microbial community structure and functioning. For that, we used high-throughput sequencing to analyze the composition of bacteria and fungi and analyzed the microbially derived metabolome throughout the fermentation process in all four seasons in both 2018 and 2019. We show that microbial communities and the metabolome changed throughout the fermentation process in each of the four seasons, with metabolome diversity increasing throughout the fermentation process. Across seasons, bacterial and fungal communities as well as the metabolome driven by 10 indicator microorganisms and six metabolites varied even more. Daily average temperature in the external surroundings was the primary determinant of the observed temporal microbial community and metabolome changes. Collectively, our work reveals critical insights into patterns and processes determining temporal changes of microbial community composition and functioning. We highlight the importance of linking taxonomic to functional changes in microbial ecology to enable predictions of human-relevant applications. IMPORTANCE We used Chinese liquor fermentation as a model system to show that microbiome composition changes more dramatically across seasons than throughout the fermentation process within seasons. These changes translate to differences in the metabolome as the ultimate functional outcome of microbial activity, suggesting that temporal changes in microbiome composition are translating into functional changes. This result is striking as it suggests that microbial functioning, despite controlled conditions in the fermentors, fluctuates over season along with external temperature differences, which threatens a reproducible food taste. As such, we believe that our study provides a stepping-stone into novel taxonomy-functional studies that promote future work in other systems and that also is relevant in applied settings to better control surrounding conditions in food production.
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Zhou L, Wang X, Ren W, Xu Y, Zhao L, Zhang Y, Teng Y. Contribution of autochthonous diazotrophs to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon dissipation in contaminated soils. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 719:137410. [PMID: 32120099 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Understanding the role played by autochthonous functional microbes involved in the biotransformation of pollutants would help optimize bioremediation performance at contaminated sites. However, our knowledge of the remediation potential of indigenous diazotrophs in contaminated soils remains inadequate. Using a microcosm experiment, soil nitrogen fixation activity was manipulated by molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W), and their effect on the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was determined in agricultural and industrial soils. Results showed that after 42 days of incubation, PAH dissipation efficiency was significantly enhanced by 1.06-fold in 600 μg kg-1 Mo-treated agricultural soil, compared with that in the control. For the industrial soil, 1200 μg kg-1 Mo treatment significantly promoted PAH removal by 90.76% in 21 days, whereas no significant change was observed between treatments and control at the end of the incubation period. W also exerted a similar effect on PAH dissipation. The activity and gene abundance of nitrogenase were also increased under Mo/W treatments in the two soils. Spearman's correlation analysis further indicated that removal of PAHs was positively correlated with nitrogenase activity in soil, which could be due to the elevated abundances of PAH-degrading genes (PAH-RHDα) in these treatments. Our results suggest the importance of autochthonous diazotrophs in PAH-contaminated soils, which indicates a feasible and environmentally friendly biostimulation strategy of manipulating nitrogen fixation capacity.
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- Lu Zhou
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, China; Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
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Catabolic Activity and Structural Diversity of Bacterial Community in Soil Covered by Halophytic Vegetation. Curr Microbiol 2020; 77:1821-1828. [PMID: 32342187 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-020-02001-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The catabolic activity and structural diversity of soil bacteria covered by five different halophytic vegetation types in the Yellow River Delta affected by long-term salinization were studied using Biolog-Eco technology. The result showed that soil quality, the diversity, and catabolic activity of the bacterial community of mildly salt-tolerant vegetation (Imperata cylindrical (L.) Beauv. and Apocynum venetum L.) were significantly higher than those of the bacterial community of highly salt-tolerant vegetation (Suaeda salsa (L.) Pall., Aeluropus sinensis (D.) Tzvel.), while these values were lowest for bacterial communities in bare land. The operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and diversity indexes of soil bacteria covered by Aeluropus sinensis were higher than those of soil bacteria covered by other types of vegetation, while those of soil bacteria covered by bare land were lowest. Principal component analysis (PCA) of the carbon source utilization capacity of the soil bacterial communities showed that organic acids, polymers, and amino acids were sensitive carbon sources that enabled study of the diversity of carbon metabolic functions in soil bacterial communities. And redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that D-galacturonic was significantly positively correlated with Verrucomicrobia, which further demonstrated the effect of organic acid carbon sources on metabolic functional diversity of soil bacterial communities in the Yellow River Delta.
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Li W, Fan G, Fu Z, Wang W, Xu Y, Teng C, Zhang C, Yang R, Sun B, Li X. Effects of fortification of Daqu with various yeasts on microbial community structure and flavor metabolism. Food Res Int 2019; 129:108837. [PMID: 32036879 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2019.108837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2019] [Revised: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Fortification of Daqu with isolated functional strains can influence the metabolic activity of the microbial community, and thus alter the flavors of the Baijiu produced with Daqu as a fermentation starter. Here, we analyzed the microbial community dynamics of, and volatile compound production by, Daqu fortified respectively with three high-yield ethyl caproate-producing yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae Y7#09, Hyphopichia burtonii F12507 and Clavispora lusitaniae YX3307), or with a mixture of these three strains, during the fermentation of Baijiu. The microbial community was investigated using Illumina HiSeq technology. Three bacterial genera (Bacillus, Lactobacillus and Enterobacter) and four fungal genera (Pichia, Clavispora, Saccharomyces and Saccharomycopsis) were dominant in the microbial communities. The volatile compounds were examined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Forty-one flavor compounds were detected in all samples, including seven alcohols, 26 esters and four aldehydes. In particular, an increase in ethyl caproate content was associated with Daqu fortified with S. cerevisiae Y7#09, C. lusitaniae YX3307, or the mixed inoculum. The ester content of these fortified Daqu was higher in the later stage of the fermentation than that in unfortified Daqu, or in Daqu fortified with H. burtonii F12507. Our results show that fortification of Daqu with aroma-producing yeast strains influenced the microbial community composition in the Daqu and affected its metabolic activity. Overall, this study reveals the features of fortified Daqu microbial communities in different phases and improves understanding of the relationships between aroma-producing yeast and the metabolic activity of microbial communities in Baijiu production.
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- Weiwei Li
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Flavor Chemistry, Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Flavor Chemistry, Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Flavor Chemistry, Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Flavor Chemistry, Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology & Business University (BTBU), Beijing 100048, China; Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing 100048, China.
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Khan AR, Reichmann LG, Ibal JC, Shin JH, Liu Y, Collins H, LePage B, Terry N. Variation in pickleweed root-associated microbial communities at different locations of a saline solid waste management unit contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0222901. [PMID: 31581244 PMCID: PMC6776359 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The main purpose of this study was to explore the potential influences of pickleweed vegetation on the abundance, diversity and metabolic activities of microbial communities in four distinct areas of a petroleum-contaminated solid waste management unit (SWMU) located in Contra Costa County, northern California. The four areas sampled include two central areas, one of which is central vegetated (CV) and one unvegetated (UV), and two peripheral vegetated areas, one of which is located to the west side of the SWMU (V-West) and one located to the east side (V-East). Measurements were made of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), soil physicochemical properties, and various aspects of microbial communities including metabolic activities, microbial abundances (PLFAs), diversity and composition based on amplicon sequencing. The peripheral V-East and V-West sites had 10-times lower electrical conductivity (EC) than that of the CV and UV sites. The high salinity levels of the CV and UV sites were associated with significant reductions in bacterial and fungal abundances (PLFA) when compared to V-East but not when compared to V-West. TPH levels of CV and UV were not significantly different from those of V-West but were substantially lower than V-East TPH (19,311 mg/kg of dry soil), the high value of which may have been associated with a pipeline that ran through the area. Microbial activities (in terms of soil respiration and the activities of three soil enzymes, i.e., urease, lipase, and phosphatase) were greatest in the vegetated sites compared to the UV site. The prokaryotic community was not diverse as revealed by the Shannon index with no significant variation among the four groups of samples. However, the fungal community of the peripheral sites, V-East and V-West had significantly higher OTU richness and Shannon index. Structure of prokaryotic communities inhabiting the rhizosphere of pickleweed plants at the three sites differed significantly and were also different from those found in the UV region of the central site according to pairwise, global PERMANOVA and ANOSIM analyses. The differences in OTU-based rhizosphere-associated bacterial and fungal communities’ composition were explained mainly by the changes in soil EC and pH. The results suggest that saline TPH-contaminated areas that are vegetated with pickleweed are likely to have increased abundances, diversity and metabolic activities in the rhizosphere compared to unvegetated areas, even in the presence of high salinity.
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- Abdur Rahim Khan
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America
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- School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- School of Applied Biosciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America
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- USDA-ARS Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, TX, United States of America
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- Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Ramon, CA, United States of America
- The Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America
- * E-mail: (NT); , (ARK)
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Jiang J, Liu Y, Li H, Yang Q, Wu Q, Chen S, Tang J, Xu Y. Modeling and Regulation of Higher Alcohol Production through the Combined Effects of the C/N Ratio and Microbial Interaction. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2019; 67:10694-10701. [PMID: 31476866 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b04545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Too large of a higher alcohol content has negative effects on the liquor taste and health. Revealing the key microbes and their key driving forces is essential to regulate the higher alcohol content in spontaneous liquor fermentation. Herein, we used high-throughput sequencing associated with a multivariate statistical algorithm to reveal the contributing microbes for higher alcohol production in Chinese light-aroma-type liquor and identified that Saccharomyces and Pichia were the main contributors. In addition, the C/N ratio and microbial interaction were found to significantly affect the production of higher alcohols. Herein, we used response surface methodology to establish a predictive model for higher alcohol production with the regulating factors, and the content of total higher alcohols decreased significantly from 328.80 ± 24.83 to 114.88 ± 5.02 mg/L with the optimized levels of the regulators. This work would facilitate the control of flavor production via regulating microbial communities in food fermentation.
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- Jian Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi , Jiangsu 214122 , China
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Food, Jing Brand Research Institute , Jing Brand Company, Limited , Daye , Hubei 435100 , China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi , Jiangsu 214122 , China
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Food, Jing Brand Research Institute , Jing Brand Company, Limited , Daye , Hubei 435100 , China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi , Jiangsu 214122 , China
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Food, Jing Brand Research Institute , Jing Brand Company, Limited , Daye , Hubei 435100 , China
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- Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Food, Jing Brand Research Institute , Jing Brand Company, Limited , Daye , Hubei 435100 , China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi , Jiangsu 214122 , China
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Liu C, Feng S, Wu Q, Huang H, Chen Z, Li S, Xu Y. Raw Material Regulates Flavor Formation via Driving Microbiota in Chinese Liquor Fermentation. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1520. [PMID: 31333623 PMCID: PMC6620735 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Raw material is important for flavors in fermented foods. Here, the effect of hulless barley on the microbiota in Chinese liquor was studied using two main cultivars (heilaoya and dulihuang). Six genera (Lactobacillus, Saccharomyces, Komagataella, Aspergillus, Pichia, and Weissella) were identified as flavor producers. Komagataella, mainly correlated with esters, dominated in heilaoya, and Pichia, mainly correlated with carbonyls, dominated in dulihuang. The Mantel test indicated reducing sugar drove the succession of microbiota (heilaoya: P = 0.001; dulihuang: P = 0.006). Especially, glucose (P = 0.0226) and fructose (P = 0.0168) presented the most significant correlations with Pichia and Komagataella, respectively. The simulative fermentation confirmed Komagataella phaffii QK2 grew better in heilaoya with more fructose, whereas Pichia fermentans PF grew better in dulihuang with more glucose. This work highlighted the effect of raw material on microbiota, which would be beneficial for regulating the quality of fermented foods.
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- Chongchong Liu
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,Suqian Industrial Technology Research Institute, Jiangnan University, Suqian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,Suqian Industrial Technology Research Institute, Jiangnan University, Suqian, China
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- Qinghai Huzhu Barley Wine Co., Ltd., Haidong, China
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- Qinghai Huzhu Barley Wine Co., Ltd., Haidong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.,Suqian Industrial Technology Research Institute, Jiangnan University, Suqian, China
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Haleyur N, Shahsavari E, Jain SS, Koshlaf E, Ravindran VB, Morrison PD, Osborn AM, Ball AS. Influence of bioaugmentation and biostimulation on PAH degradation in aged contaminated soils: Response and dynamics of the bacterial community. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 238:49-58. [PMID: 30844545 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent a group of hazardous compounds that are ubiquitous and persistent. The main aim of this study was to investigate the degradation of PAHs in chronically contaminated, aged and weathered soils obtained from a former gas plant of Australia. Biostimulation and bioaugmentation using individual isolates (Rhodococcus sp. (NH2), Achromobacter sp. (NH13), Oerskovia paurometabola (NH11), Pantoea sp. (NH15), Sejongia sp. (NH20), Microbacterium maritypicum (NH30) and Arthrobacter equi (NH21)) and a consortium of these isolates were tested during mesocosm studies. A significant reduction (99%) in PAH concentration was observed in all the treatments. In terms of the abundance of PAH-degrading genes and microbial community structure during PAH degradation, qPCR results revealed that Gram-positive bacteria were dominant over other bacterial communities in all the treatments. 16S sequencing results revealed that the inoculated organisms did not establish themselves during the treatment. However, substantial bacterial community changes during the treatments were observed, suggesting that the natural community exhibited sufficient resilience and diversity to enable an active, but changing degrading community at all stages of the degradation process. Consequently, biostimulation is proposed as the best strategy to remediate PAHs in aged, weathered and chronically contaminated soils.
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- Nagalakshmi Haleyur
- School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia; Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia.
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia; Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Bundoora West, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia; Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia; Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia; Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia; Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, RMIT University, Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia.
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Construction of Synthetic Microbiota for Reproducible Flavor Compound Metabolism in Chinese Light-Aroma-Type Liquor Produced by Solid-State Fermentation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2019; 85:AEM.03090-18. [PMID: 30850432 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03090-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Natural microbiota plays an essential role in flavor compounds used in traditional food fermentation; however, the fluctuation in natural microbiota results in inconsistency in food quality. Thus, it is critical to reveal the core microbiota for flavor compound production and to construct a synthetic core microbiota for use in constant food fermentation. Here, we reveal the core microbiota based on their flavor production and cooccurrence performance, using Chinese light-aroma-type liquor as a model system. Five genera, Lactobacillus, Saccharomyces, Pichia, Geotrichum, and Candida, were identified to be the core microbiota. The synthetic core microbiota of these five genera presented a reproducible dynamic profile similar to that in the natural microbiota. A Monte Carlo test showed that the effects of five environmental factors (lactic acid, ethanol, and acetic acid contents, moisture, and pH) on the synthetic microbiota distribution were highly significant (P < 0.01), similar to those effects on a natural fermentation system. In addition, 77.27% of the flavor compounds produced by the synthetic core microbiota showed a similar dynamic profile (ρ > 0) with that in the natural liquor fermentation process, and the flavor profile presented a similar composition. It indicated that the synthetic core microbiota is efficient for reproducible flavor metabolism. This work established a method for identifying core microbiota and constructing a synthetic microbiota for reproducible flavor compounds. This work is of great significance for the tractable and constant production of various fermented foods.IMPORTANCE The transformation from natural fermentation to synthetic fermentation is essential in constructing a constant food fermentation process, which is the premise for stably making high-quality food. According to flavor-producing and cooccurring functions in dominant microbes, we provided a system-level approach to identify the core microbiota in Chinese light-aroma-type liquor fermentation. In addition, we successfully constructed a synthetic core microbiota to simulate the microbial community succession and flavor compound production in the in vitro system. The constructed synthetic core microbiota could not only facilitate a mechanistic understanding of the structure and function of the microbiota but also be beneficial for constructing a tractable and reproducible food fermentation process.
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Ren Q, Sun L, Wu H, Wang Y, Wang Z, Zheng F, Lu X, Xu J. The changes of microbial community and flavor compound in the fermentation process of Chinese rice wine using Fagopyrum tataricum grain as feedstock. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3365. [PMID: 30833628 PMCID: PMC6399331 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40337-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Chinese rice wine (CRW), a unique wine species, has a long history in China. Fagopyrum tataricum grain is a kind of high-quality grain with function in health care. The production of CRW wine with F. tataricum grain is beneficial to the development of new rice wine products. The flavor compounds and microorganisms in F. tataricum grain rice wine were studied. One hundred and seven volatile compounds (including 11 kinds of pyrazines that were rarely detected in wine) were detected and eight organic acids were measured. The microecological diversity in the fermentation process of F. tataricum rice wine was studied. It was found that Bacillus was the main bacterial genus, and the unclassfied_O_Saccharomycetales was the main fungi. Correlation analysis between microorganism and flavor compound shown there are 838 correlations. A total of 108 microbial genera maybe participate in the formation of flavor compounds. In addition, fourteen genera included unclassified_O_Saccharomycetales, Lactococcus, Pediococcus, Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Cochliobolus, Sporidiobolus, Pichia and Saccharomycopsis et al. were screened as functional significant microbiota and built correlation with flavor compounds. This work provides a perspective for bridging the gap between flavor compound and microbial community, and advances our understanding of mechanisms in F. tataricum rice wine fermentation.
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- Qing Ren
- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, 100048, China.
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Wu SS, Hernández M, Deng YC, Han C, Hong X, Xu J, Zhong WH, Deng H. The voltage signals of microbial fuel cell-based sensors positively correlated with methane emission flux in paddy fields of China. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2019; 95:5304610. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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- Shao-Song Wu
- School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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- School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
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Chikere CB, Fenibo EO. Distribution of PAH-ring hydroxylating dioxygenase genes in bacteria isolated from two illegal oil refining sites in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. SCIENTIFIC AFRICAN 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2018.e00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Gan X, Teng Y, Zhao L, Ren W, Chen W, Hao J, Christie P, Luo Y. Influencing mechanisms of hematite on benzo(a)pyrene degradation by the PAH-degrading bacterium Paracoccus sp. Strain HPD-2: insight from benzo(a)pyrene bioaccessibility and bacteria activity. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2018; 359:348-355. [PMID: 30048949 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.07.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Revised: 07/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Iron oxides are reactive inorganic soil components that play an important role in the fate and transport of organic pollutants. Here, hematite was selected to investigate its effect on the biodegradation of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) by Paracoccus sp. strain HPD-2. Approximately 60% of the total BaP was degraded in the absence of hematite after 7 days but only 30.8 and 20.8% of that was degraded after the addition of 10 and 20 mg mL-1 hematite, respectively, indicating that the addition of hematite could significantly inhibit the biodegradation of BaP (P < 0.05). The hematite also lowered bacterium activity by coating the cells and by generating reactive oxygen species that destroyed the cells. Two-photon confocal laser scanning microscope images showed that the addition of hematite substantially decreased the amount of BaP combined with the bacterium, and this also enabled us to observe directly the migration and regression of BaP in the interaction between HPD-2 and hematite. Higher death ratio of HPD-2 might lower the BaP access to live cells because dead cells have a higher adsorption affinity for BaP than live cells. These observations enhance our understanding of the mechanisms by which metal oxides, organic pollutants and degrading-bacteria interact during the biodegradation process.
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100029, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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El Azhari N, Dermou E, Barnard RL, Storck V, Tourna M, Beguet J, Karas PA, Lucini L, Rouard N, Botteri L, Ferrari F, Trevisan M, Karpouzas DG, Martin-Laurent F. The dissipation and microbial ecotoxicity of tebuconazole and its transformation products in soil under standard laboratory and simulated winter conditions. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 637-638:892-906. [PMID: 29763870 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Tebuconazole (TBZ) is a widely used triazole fungicide at EU level on cereals and vines. It is relatively persistent in soil where it is transformed to various transformation products (TPs) which might be environmentally relevant. We assessed the dissipation of TBZ in soil under contrasting incubation conditions (standard vs winter simulated) that are relevant to its application scheme, determined its transformation pathway using advanced analytical tools and 14C-labeled TBZ and assessed its soil microbial toxicity. Mineralization of 14C-triazole-ring-labeled TBZ was negligible but up to 11% of 14C-penyl-ring-labeled TBZ evolved as 14CO2 within 150 days of incubation. TBZ persistence increased at higher dose rates (×10 compared to the recommended agronomical dose ×1) and under winter simulated conditions compared to standard incubation conditions (at ×1 dose rate DT50 of 202 and 88 days, respectively). Non-target suspect screening enabled the detection of 22 TPs of TBZ, among which 17 were unknown. Mass spectrometry analysis led to the identification of 1-(4-chlorophenyl) ethanone, a novel TP of TBZ, the formation of which and decay in soil was determined by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Three hypothetical transformation pathways of TBZ, all converging to 1H-1,2,4-triazole are proposed based on suspect screening. The ecotoxicological effect of TBZ and of its TPs was assessed by measuring by qPCR the abundance of the total bacteria and the relative abundance of 11 prokaryotic taxa and 4 functional groups. A transient impact of TBZ on the relative abundance of all prokaryotic taxa (except α-proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes) and one functional microbial group (pcaH-carrying microorganisms) was observed. However the direction of the effect (positive or negative) varied, and in certain cases, depended on the incubation conditions. Proteobacteria was the most responsive phylum to TBZ with recovery observed 20 days after treatment. The ecotoxicological effects on the soil microorganisms were not correlated with 1-(4-chlorophenyl) ethanone.
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- Najoi El Azhari
- AEIFORIA srl, Loc. Faggiola 12-16, 29027 Gariga di Podenzano, Italy; Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France; SATT Grand Est, 64A rue Sully, 21000 Dijon, France
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- AEIFORIA srl, Loc. Faggiola 12-16, 29027 Gariga di Podenzano, Italy; University of Patras, 2 Seferi str., 30100 Agrinio, Greece
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, Viopolis 41500, Larisa, Greece
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, Viopolis 41500, Larisa, Greece
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- Università Cattolica di Sacro Cuore, via Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- AEIFORIA srl, Loc. Faggiola 12-16, 29027 Gariga di Podenzano, Italy
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- AEIFORIA srl, Loc. Faggiola 12-16, 29027 Gariga di Podenzano, Italy
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- Università Cattolica di Sacro Cuore, via Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, Viopolis 41500, Larisa, Greece
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Wolfson SJ, Porter AW, Villani TS, Simon JE, Young LY. The antihistamine diphenhydramine is demethylated by anaerobic wastewater microorganisms. CHEMOSPHERE 2018; 202:460-466. [PMID: 29579680 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.03.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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While emerging pharmaceutical contaminants are monitored in wastewater treatment and the environment, there is little information concerning their microbial metabolites. The transformation of diphenhydramine by microorganisms in anaerobic digester sludge was investigated using anaerobic cultures amended with 1 mM diphenhydramine as the sole carbon source. Complete transformation of the parent compound to a persistent metabolite occurred within 191 days. Using GC/MS analysis, the metabolite was identified as N-desmethyl diphenhydramine. Loss of the parent compound diphenhydramine followed a first order rate constant of 0.013 day-1. There was no observed decrease in metabolite concentration even after a further 12 months of incubation, suggesting that the metabolite resists further degradation during wastewater treatment. Bacterial community diversity in the diphenhydramine transforming assay cultures showed enrichment in Comamonadaceae, Symbiobacteriaceae, Anaerolineaceae, and Prevotellaceae relative to unamended background controls. An anaerobic toxicity assay demonstrated that diphenhydramine has an inhibitory effect on both fermentative bacteria and methanogenic archaea in the wastewater community. In contrast, the metabolite N-desmethyl diphenhydramine partially suppressed methanogens but did not impact the fermenting community. To our knowledge, this is the first report of diphenhydramine metabolism by a bacterial community. The limited transformation of diphenhydramine by wastewater microorganisms indicates that N-desmethyl diphenhydramine will enter the environment along with unmetabolized diphenhydramine.
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- Sarah J Wolfson
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Environmental legacy contributes to the resilience of methane consumption in a laboratory microcosm system. Sci Rep 2018; 8:8862. [PMID: 29892072 PMCID: PMC5995846 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27168-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The increase of extreme drought and precipitation events due to climate change will alter microbial processes. Perturbation experiments demonstrated that microbes are sensitive to environmental alterations. However, only little is known on the legacy effects in microbial systems. Here, we designed a laboratory microcosm experiment using aerobic methane-consuming communities as a model system to test basic principles of microbial resilience and the role of changes in biomass and the presence of non-methanotrophic microbes in this process. We focused on enrichments from soil, sediment, and water reflecting communities with different legacy with respect to exposure to drought. Recovery rates, a recently proposed early warning indicator of a critical transition, were utilized as a measure to detect resilience loss of methane consumption during a series of dry/wet cycle perturbations. We observed a slowed recovery of enrichments originating from water samples, which suggests that the community’s legacy with a perturbation is a contributing factor for the resilience of microbial functioning.
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Zhou X, Shen Y, Fu X, Wu F. Application of Sodium Silicate Enhances Cucumber Resistance to Fusarium Wilt and Alters Soil Microbial Communities. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:624. [PMID: 29868080 PMCID: PMC5958222 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/19/2018] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Exogenous silicates can enhance plant resistance to pathogens and change soil microbial communities. However, the relationship between changes in soil microbial communities and enhanced plant resistance remains unclear. Here, effects of exogenous sodium silicate on cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seedling resistance to Fusarium wilt caused by the soil-borne pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum Owen (FOC) were investigated by drenching soil with 2 mM sodium silicate. Soil bacterial and fungal community abundances and compositions were estimated by real-time PCR and high-throughput amplicon sequencing; then, feedback effects of changes in soil biota on cucumber seedling resistance to FOC were assessed. Moreover, effects of sodium silicate on the growth of FOC and Streptomyces DHV3-2, an antagonistic bacterium to FOC, were investigated both in vitro and in the soil environment. Results showed that exogenous sodium silicate enhanced cucumber seedling growth and resistance to FOC. In bare soil, sodium silicate increased bacterial and fungal community abundances and diversities. In cucumber-cultivated soil, sodium silicate increased bacterial community abundances, but decreased fungal community abundances and diversities. Sodium silicate also changed soil bacterial and fungal communality compositions, and especially, decreased the relative abundances of microbial taxa containing plant pathogens but increased these with plant-beneficial potentials. Moreover, sodium silicate increased the abundance of Streptomyces DHV3-2 in soil. Soil biota from cucumber-cultivated soil treated with sodium silicate decreased cucumber seedling Fusarium wilt disease index, and enhanced cucumber seedling growth and defense-related enzyme activities in roots. Sodium silicate at pH 9.85 inhibited FOC abundance in vitro, but did not affect FOC abundance in soil. Overall, our results suggested that, in cucumber-cultivated soil, sodium silicate increased cucumber seedling resistance to Fusarium wilt by changing soil microbial communities rather than by directly inhibiting the growth of FOC.
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- Xingang Zhou
- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Northeast Region), Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Northeast Region), Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China
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Roslund MI, Grönroos M, Rantalainen AL, Jumpponen A, Romantschuk M, Parajuli A, Hyöty H, Laitinen O, Sinkkonen A. Half-lives of PAHs and temporal microbiota changes in commonly used urban landscaping materials. PeerJ 2018; 6:e4508. [PMID: 29576975 PMCID: PMC5863720 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Background Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) accumulate in urban soils, and PAH contamination can change soil microbial community composition. Environmental microbiota is associated with human commensal microbiota, immune system and health. Therefore, studies investigating the degradation of PAHs, and the consequences of soil pollution on microbial communities in urban landscaping materials, are crucial. Methods Four landscaping materials (organic matter 1, 2, 13 and 56%) were contaminated with PAHs commonly found at urban sites (phenanthrene, fluoranthene, pyrene, chrysene and benzo(b)fluoranthene) in PAH concentrations that reflect urban soils in Finland (2.4 µg g -1 soil dry weight). PAHs were analyzed initially and after 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Half-lives of PAHs were determined based on 12-weeks degradation. Bacterial communities were analyzed at 1 and 12 weeks after contamination using Illumina MiSeq 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding. Results Half-lives ranged from 1.5 to 4.4 weeks for PAHs with relatively low molecular weights (phenanthrene, fluoranthene and pyrene) in landscaping materials containing 1–2% organic matter. In contrast, in materials containing 13% and 56% organic matter, the half-lives ranged from 2.5 to 52 weeks. Shorter half-lives of phenanthrene and fluoranthene were thus associated with low organic matter content. The half-life of pyrene was inversely related to the relative abundance of Beta-, Delta- and Gammaproteobacteria, and diversity of Bacteroidetes and Betaprotebacteria. Compounds with higher molecular weights followed compound-specific patterns. Benzo(b)fluoranthene was resistant to degradation and half-life of chrysene was shorter when the relative abundance of Betaproteobacteria was high. Temporal microbiota changes involved increase in the relative abundance of Deltaproteobacteria and decrease in genera Flavobacterium and Rhodanobacter. Exposure to PAHs seems to adjust microbial community composition, particularly within class Beta- and Deltaproteobacteria. Conclusions In this study, PAH degradation depended on the organic matter content and bacterial community composition of landscaping materials. Contamination seems to alter bacterial community composition in landscaping materials depending on material type. This alteration includes changes in bacterial phyla associated with human health and immune system. This may open new possibilities for managing urban environments by careful selection of landscaping materials, to benefit health and wellbeing.
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- Marja I Roslund
- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Kansas, Manhattan, United States of America
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
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Microbial dynamics and metabolite changes in Chinese Rice Wine fermentation from sorghum with different tannin content. Sci Rep 2018; 8:4639. [PMID: 29545525 PMCID: PMC5854674 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23013-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Chinese rice wine (CRW) is the oldest kind of wine in China and is mainly fermented by wheat Qu and yeast with rice, millet, etc. This gives CRW a unique quality, but the flavor components are complex. Its formation is related to microorganisms, but the link between CRW and microorganisms is poorly understood. Here, we used two kinds of sorghum (JZ22 and JB3, of which JZ22 has a higher tannin content) as the raw materials to brew and determined the structural and functional dynamics of the microbiota by metagenomics and flavor analyses. We detected 106 (JZ22) and 109 (JB3) volatile flavor compounds and 8 organic acids. By correlation analysis, we established 687 (JZ22) and 496 (JB3) correlations between the major flavor compounds and microbes. In JZ22, Blautia, Collinsella, Bifidobacterium, Faecalibacterium and Prevotella had the most correlations with flavor production. In JB3, the top 5 genera were Stenotrophomonas, Bdellovibrio, Solibacillus, Sulfuritalea and Achromobacter. In addition, more esters were detected, and more microorganisms correlated with ester generation in JZ22. This study provides a new idea for the micro ecological diversity of CRW fermented with sorghum. This is of significance for improving the quality and broadening the CRW varieties.
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Chen SC, Duan GL, Ding K, Huang FY, Zhu YG. DNA stable-isotope probing identifies uncultivated members of Pseudonocardia associated with biodegradation of pyrene in agricultural soil. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 94:4862470. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Song-Can Chen
- State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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Zhang P, Ren C, Sun H, Min L. Sorption, desorption and degradation of neonicotinoids in four agricultural soils and their effects on soil microorganisms. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 615:59-69. [PMID: 28968584 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Revised: 09/10/2017] [Accepted: 09/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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In this study, the sorption, desorption and degradation of three neonicotinoids, imidacloprid (IMI), clothianidin (CLO) and thiacloprid (THI), and their effects on microorganisms in four different agricultural soils were systematically evaluated. The sorption of neonicotinoids on the soils was generally low with distribution coefficients (Kd) up to 16.2L/kg at Ce of 0.05mg/L following the order THI>IMI≈CLO, and the sorption were mainly influenced by the soil organic carbon content. The percentage degradation rates of the pesticides in different soils ranged from 25.4% to 80.9%, all following the order THI>IMI≈CLO. All the three neonicotinoids degraded much faster under non-sterilized conditions than sterilized conditions, indicating considerable contribution of biodegradation. The total degradation or biodegradation of neonicotinoids was the fastest in the soil with the highest organic carbon content, and the neonicotinoids' bioavailability was not the primary influencing factor due to their weak sorption. The chemical degradation was mainly affected by pH and cation exchange capacity. The degradation of neonicotinoids occurred mainly via nitrate reduction, cyano hydrolysis and chloropyridinyl dechlorination. High-throughput sequencing data showed that the microbial community structure and abundance changed greatly in neonicotinoid-spiked soils as compared to the control, which might influence their degradation pathways. Some microbe families associated with the biodegradation of neoniconoids were found, which were all belonging to Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria. The degradation of neoniconoids influenced the soil nitrifying process. The present study provides valuable information for comprehensively understanding the fate of neonicotinoids in soils.
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- Peng Zhang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Cui K, Wu Q, Xu Y. Biodegradation of Ethyl Carbamate and Urea with Lysinibacillus sphaericus MT33 in Chinese Liquor Fermentation. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2018; 66:1583-1590. [PMID: 29359925 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b05190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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It is important to reduce the concentration of ethyl carbamate (EC) in fermented foods. However, controlling the formation of EC and its precursor urea is difficult in spontaneous food fermentation because urea is a natural product of nitrogen metabolism. Biodegradation is a better solution to reduce the concentration of EC. This study aimed to reduce the concentration of EC in Chinese liquor via an indigenous strain Lysinibacillus sphaericus MT33. This strain produced urethanase (940 U/L) and urease (1580 U/L) and degraded 76.52% of EC and 56.48% of urea. After inoculation in liquor fermentation, the maximal relative abundance of Lysinibacillus increased from 0.02% to 8.46%, the final EC and urea contents decreased by 41.77% and 28.15%. Moreover, the concentration of EC decreased by 63.32% in liquor. The negative correlation between abundance of Lysinibacillus and contents of EC and urea indicated the effect of L. sphaericus on EC and urea degradation.
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- Kaixiang Cui
- The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Synergetic Innovation Centre of Food Safety and Nutrition, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University , Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Synergetic Innovation Centre of Food Safety and Nutrition, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University , Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Synergetic Innovation Centre of Food Safety and Nutrition, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University , Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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Papadopoulou ES, Genitsaris S, Omirou M, Perruchon C, Stamatopoulou A, Ioannides I, Karpouzas DG. Bioaugmentation of thiabendazole-contaminated soils from a wastewater disposal site: Factors driving the efficacy of this strategy and the diversity of the indigenous soil bacterial community. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 233:16-25. [PMID: 29049942 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Revised: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The application of the fungicide thiabendazole (TBZ) in fruit packaging plants (FPP) results in the production of effluents which are often disposed in adjacent field sites. These require remediation to prevent further environmental dispersal of TBZ. We assessed the bioaugmentation potential of a newly isolated TBZ-degrading bacterial consortium in a naturally contaminated soil (NCS) exhibiting a natural gradient of TBZ levels (12000, 400, 250 and 12 mg kg-1). The effect of aging on bioaugmentation efficacy was comparatively tested in a soil with similar physicochemical properties and soil microbiota, which was artificially, contaminated with the same TBZ levels (ACS). The impact of bioaugmentation and TBZ on the bacterial diversity in the NCS was explored via amplicon sequencing. Bioaugmentation effectively removed TBZ from both soils at levels up to 400 mg kg-1 but failed at the highest contamination level (12000 mg kg-1). Dissipation of TBZ in bioaugmented samples showed a concentration-dependent pattern, while aging of TBZ had a slight effect on bioaugmentation efficiency. Bioaugmentation had no impact on the soil bacterial diversity, in contrast to TBZ contamination. Soils from the hotspots of TBZ contamination (12000 mg kg-1) showed a drastically lower α-diversity driven by the dominance of β- and γ-proteobacteria at the expense of all other bacterial phyla, especially Actinobacteria. Overall, bioaugmentation with specialized microbial inocula could be an effective solution for the recovery of disposal sites contaminated with persistent chemicals like TBZ.
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- Evangelia S Papadopoulou
- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Lab of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, 41500 Larissa, Greece
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Lab of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, 41500 Larissa, Greece
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Lab of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, 41500 Larissa, Greece
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Lab of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, 41500 Larissa, Greece
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- University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Lab of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, 41500 Larissa, Greece.
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