Siddhartha Shankar Bhattacharyya, Gerard H. Ros, Karolina Furtak, Hafiz M.N. Iqbal et al.
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) refers to the uptake of carbon (C) containing substances from the atmosphere and its storage in soil C pools. Soil microbial community (SMC) play a major role in C cycling and their activity has been considered as the main driver of differences in the potential to sto...
Laura S. Epp, Sanne Boessenkool, Eva Bellemain, James Haile et al.
Metabarcoding approaches use total and typically degraded DNA from environmental samples to analyse biotic assemblages and can potentially be carried out for any kinds of organisms in an ecosystem. These analyses rely on specific markers, here called metabarcodes, which should be optimized for taxon...
Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to analyse ARGs in 7...
Zhanglei Pan, Jian Zhou, Ziyuan Lin, Yingmu Wang et al.
High salinity and high organic concentration impose negative impacts on autotrophic nitrification, which hinders efficient nitrogen removal. To achieve efficient nitrogen removal, high saline wastewater nitrogen removal systems with different COD/TN ratios based on heterotrophic nitrification-aerobi...
Abhrajyoti Ghosh, Nirmalya Dey, Amit Bera, Amit Kumar Tiwari et al.
BACKGROUND: Sundarban is the world's largest coastal sediment comprising of mangrove forest which covers about one million hectares in the south-eastern parts of India and southern parts of Bangladesh. The microbial diversity in this sediment is largely unknown till date. In the present study an att...
Wei Huang, Benzhou Gong, Yingmu Wang, Ziyuan Lin et al.
The conventional biological nutrients removal process is challenged by insufficient organic carbon in influent. To cross such an organic-dependent barrier, a pilot-scale electrolysis-integrated anaerobic/anoxic/oxic (AAO) process was developed for enhanced removal of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) ...
Md. Fakruddin, Khanjada Shahnewaj Bin Mannan
Difficulties in cultivating most of the microorganisms limit our ability to study microbial ecosystems. Molecular methods are valuable tools for investigating the diversity and structure of bacterial communities. These techniques can be used on culturable as well as non-culturable bacteria. Cultivat...
Md. Rashedul Islam, Puneet Singh Chauhan, Yoohak Kim, Myung‐Sook Kim et al.
Shahnaz Sultana, Sumonta C. Paul, Samia Parveen, Saiful Alam et al.
Growth and productivity of rice are negatively affected by soil salinity. However, some salt-tolerant rhizosphere-inhabiting bacteria can improve salt resistance of plants, thereby augmenting plant growth and production. Here, we isolated a total of 53 plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) fro...
Sachin P. Bachate, Lucia Cavalca, V. Andreoni
AIMS: To analyse the arsenic-resistant bacterial communities of two agricultural soils of Bangladesh, to isolate arsenic-resistant bacteria, to study their potential role in arsenic transformation and to investigate the genetic determinants for arsenic resistance among the isolates. METHODS AND RESU...
Sarah M. Allard, Matthew T. Costa, Ashley Bulseco, Véronique Helfer et al.
Mangrove ecosystems provide important ecological benefits and ecosystem services, including carbon storage and coastline stabilization, but they also suffer great anthropogenic pressures. Microorganisms associated with mangrove sediments and the rhizosphere play key roles in this ecosystem and make ...
Gaidi Ren, Chunwu Zhu, Mohammad Saiful Alam, Takeshi Tokida et al.
Hui‐Yu Sui, Ana A. Weil, Edwin Nuwagira, Firdausi Qadri et al.
Both the host microbiome and the microbiome of the built environment can have profound influences on human health. While prior studies have suggested that the variability introduced by DNA extraction method is less than typical biologic variation, most studies have focused on 16S rRNA amplicon seque...
Florian Wichern, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Michael Hemkemeyer, Conor Watson et al.
Sea-water level rise leads to increased saltwater intrusion causing soil salinity on arable land with negative effects on soil microbial processes. Organic amendments are known to reduce the effects of salinity on soil microorganisms, therefore positively influencing microbial activity and nutrient ...
Munawar Sultana, Susann Vogler, Kamrun Zargar, Anne‐Christine Schmidt et al.
In the present study cultivation-dependent and molecular methods were applied in combination to investigate the arsenite-oxidizing communities in enrichment cultures from arsenic and lead smelter-impacted soils with respect to both 16S rRNA and arsenite oxidase gene diversity. Enrichments with arsen...