Competition between Nitrospira spp. and Nitrobacter spp. in nitrite-oxidizing bioreactors.

Abstract:

:In this work the question was addressed if in nitrite-oxidizing activated sludge systems the environmental competition between Nitrobacter spp. and Nitrospira spp., which only recently has been discovered to play a role in these systems, is affected by the nitrite concentrations. Two parallel chemostats were inoculated with nitrifying-activated sludge containing Nitrospira and operated under identical conditions. After addition of Nitrobacter to both chemostats, the nitrite concentration in the influent of one of the chemostats was increased such that nitrite peaks in the bulk liquid of this reactor were detected. The other chemostat served as control reactor, which always had a constant nitrite influent concentration. The relative cellular area (RCA) of Nitrospira and Nitrobacter was determined by quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). The nitrite perturbation stimulated the growth of Nitrobacter while in the undisturbed control chemostat Nitrospira dominated. Overall, the results of this experimental study support the hypothesis that Nitrobacter is a superior competitor when resources are abundant, while Nitrospira thrive under conditions of resource scarcity. Interestingly, the dominance of Nitrobacter over Nitrospira, caused by the elevated nitrite concentrations, could not be reverted by lowering the available nitrite concentration to the original level. One possible explanation for this result is that when Nitrobacter is present at a certain cell density it is able to inhibit the growth of Nitrospira. An alternative explanation would be that the length of the experimental period was not long enough to observe an increase of the Nitrospira population.

journal_name

Biotechnol Bioeng

authors

Nogueira R,Melo LF

doi

10.1002/bit.21004

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-09-05 00:00:00

pages

169-75

issue

1

eissn

0006-3592

issn

1097-0290

journal_volume

95

pub_type

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