Evaluation of PCR primers for universal nifH gene targeting and for assessment of transcribed nifH pools in roots of Oryza longistaminata with and without low nitrogen input.

abstract：:The effects of heavy metals and phytoextraction practices on a soil microbial community were studied during 12 months using a hyperaccumulating plant (Thlaspi caerulescens) grown in an artificially contaminated soil. The 16S ribosomal RNA genes of the Bacteria and the beta-Proteobacteria and the amoA gene (encoding th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Gremion F,Chatzinotas A,Kaufmann K,Von Sigler W,Harms H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-embedded, surface-attached microbial communities, known as biofilms, profusely colonise industrial cooling water systems, where the availability of nutrients and organic matter favours rapid microbial proliferation and their adhesion to surfaces in the evaporative fill material, heat exchangers, water reservoir...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Di Pippo F,Di Gregorio L,Congestri R,Tandoi V,Rossetti S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotrophic ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) are a crucial component of the microbial communities of nitrifying wastewater treatment systems. Nitrification is known to occur in reactors of different configuration, but whether AOB communities are different in reactors of different design is unknown. We compared the div...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Rowan AK,Snape JR,Fearnside D,Barer MR,Curtis TP,Head IM

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex interactions between plants and soil microorganisms drive key ecosystem and community properties such as productivity and diversity. In nutrient-poor systems such as sand dunes, plant traits and fungal symbioses related to nutrient acquisition can strongly influence vegetation dynamics. We investigated plant a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Roy-Bolduc A,Laliberté E,Boudreau S,Hijri M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria may play a particular role in carbon cycling of aquatic systems. However, little is known about the interaction between aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and hydrochemistry in groundwater-surface water exchange systems of subtropical karst catchments. We carried out a de...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Li Q,Song A,Peng W,Jin Z,Müller WEG,Wang X

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second step of nitrification, the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate, is vital for the functioning of the nitrogen cycle, but our understanding of the ecological roles of the involved microorganisms is still limited. The known diversity of Nitrospira, the most widely distributed nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, has increa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Nowka B,Off S,Daims H,Spieck E

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenic cultures were enriched from an air-dried rice field soil and incubated under anaerobic conditions at 30 degrees C with cellulose as substrate (ET1). The culture was then transferred and further incubated at either 15 degrees C (E15) or 30 degrees C (E30), to establish stable cultures that methanogenically...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Chin K,Lukow T,Stubner S,Conrad R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic digestion of olive mill wastewaters is generally performed in anaerobic contact bioreactors where the removal of toxic phenols is often unsatisfactory. In the present work we show that a granular activated carbon packed-bed biofilm reactor can be successfully used to achieve effective and reproducible wastew...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Bertin L,Colao MC,Ruzzi M,Fava F

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) was employed to resolve PCR-amplified nifH sequences from vegetated and unvegetated sediments from two oligotrophic seagrass bed sites on San Salvador Island, Bahamas, in order to assess diazotroph species composition. All DGGE profiles from these sites showed the same pr...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Bagwell CE,Rocque JR,Smith GW,Polson SW,Friez MJ,Longshore JW,Lovell CR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analysed the nitrifier community in the biofilter of a zero discharge, recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) for the production of marine shrimp in a low density (low ammonium production) system. The ammonia-oxidizing populations were examined by targeting 16S rRNA and amoA genes of ammonia-oxidizing bacte...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Brown MN,Briones A,Diana J,Raskin L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) pose a serious problem to offshore oil industries by producing sulfide, which is highly reactive, corrosive and toxic. The dissimilatory sulfite reductase (dsr) gene encodes for enzyme dissimilatory sulfite reductase and catalyzes the conversion of sulfite to sulfide. Because this gene ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Agrawal A,Lal B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that apparently non-antagonistic soil bacteria may contribute to suppression of fungi during competitive interactions with other bacteria. Four soil bacteria (Brevundimonas sp., Luteibacter sp., Pedobacter sp. and Pseudomonas sp.) that exhibited little or no visible antifungal activity on different aga...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： de Boer W,Wagenaar AM,Klein Gunnewiek PJ,van Veen JA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antarctic soils are known to be oligotrophic and of having low buffering capacities. It is expected that this is particularly the case for inland high-altitude regions. We hypothesized that the bedrock type and the presence of macrobiota in these soils enforce a high selective pressure on their bacterial communities. ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Tytgat B,Verleyen E,Sweetlove M,D'hondt S,Clercx P,Van Ranst E,Peeters K,Roberts S,Namsaraev Z,Wilmotte A,Vyverman W,Willems A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As water is a source of nosocomial infections in hospitals, the presence of fastidious Gram-negative bacteria in water samples taken in a university hospital was investigated. Water samples were inoculated onto agar plates and into amoebal microplates for co-culture. Sixty-eight alpha proteobacteria isolates were obta...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： La Scola B,Barrassi L,Raoult D

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of microorganisms to the environment is a central theme in microbial ecology. The objective of this study was to investigate the response of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) to a soil medium shift. We employed two rice field soils collected from Beijing and Hangzhou, Chin...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ke X,Lu Y

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although efforts have been made the past few years, knowledge on genomic and phenotypic diversity and occurrence of the denitrification ability in Gram-positive bacteria are still fragmentary. Many environmental monitoring approaches have used nir, nor, and nos genes as marker genes for detection of denitrification or...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Verbaendert I,Hoefman S,Boeckx P,Boon N,De Vos P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the increasing interest in the bioecological and nutritional control of diseases, use of probiotics alone or in combination with prebiotics (synbiotics) appears as a therapeutic option for various diseases. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the protective potential of Lactobacillus acidophilus a...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Rishi P,Mavi SK,Bharrhan S,Shukla G,Tewari R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer influences bacterial community structure and evolution. However, an understanding of the forces which dictate the fate of plasmids in bacterial populations remains elusive. This is in part due to the enormous diversity of plasmids, in terms of size, structure, transmission, ev...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Slater FR,Bailey MJ,Tett AJ,Turner SL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geothermal Copahue-Caviahue (GCC) system (Argentina) is an extreme acidic environment, dominated by the activity of Copahue volcano. Environments characterised by low pH values, such as volcanic areas, are of particular interest for the search of acidophilic microorganisms with application in biotechnological proc...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Willis G,Nancucheo I,Hedrich S,Giaveno A,Donati E,Johnson DB

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 is a polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) degrader, also tolerant to several toxic metals and metalloids. The work presented here examines for the first time the chemotactic response of P. pseudoalcaligenes KF707 to biphenyl and intermediates of the PCB biodegradation pathway in the pre...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Tremaroli V,Vacchi Suzzi C,Fedi S,Ceri H,Zannoni D,Turner RJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are detected in many natural ecosystems and wastewater treatment plants worldwide. This study describes the enrichment of anammox bacteria in the presence of acetate. The results obtained extend the concept that the anammox bacteria can be enriched to high densities in t...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Kartal B,van Niftrik L,Rattray J,van de Vossenberg JL,Schmid MC,Sinninghe Damsté J,Jetten MS,Strous M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tomato soilless culture, plant-disease optimal control and growth promotion are achieved when the rhizosphere is heavily colonized by the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum. Discrepancies in performance are generally attributed to the poor persistence of P. oligandrum on roots. In this study, three selected strain...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Le Floch G,Tambong J,Vallance J,Tirilly Y,Lévesque A,Rey P

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea are ubiquitous in forest soils, but little is known about the factors regulating their abundance and distribution. Low molecular weight organic compounds represent an important energy source for archaea in marine environments, and it is reasonable to suspect that archaeal abundance is dependent on such compoun...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Karlsson AE,Johansson T,Bengtson P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-six mercury-resistant (Hg(R)) Bacillus strains were isolated from natural environments at various sites of the world. Southern hybridisation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis showed that 21 of the 56 isolates have closely related or identical mer operons to that of Bacillus megaterium MB1. These 21 is...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Narita M,Matsui K,Huang CC,Kawabata Z,Endo G

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most widely used methods for the estimation of the living/dead fractions of bacterial cells involve specific stains that are able to reveal membrane integrity. Here, we have compared two different probes (propidium iodide and ethidium homodimer-2) that have different molecular weights and steric hindrance effects....

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Manini E,Danovaro R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and chemotactic behavior in oxic-anoxic gradients were studied with two freshwater and four marine strains of sulfate-reducing bacteria related to the genera Desulfovibrio, Desulfomicrobium or Desulfobulbus. Cells were grown in oxygen-sulfide counter-gradients within tubes filled with agar-solidified medium. Th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Sass AM,Eschemann A,Kühl M,Thar R,Sass H,Cypionka H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent description of the polychromatic sponge Plakina kanaky revealed original microsymbionts, with some morphotypes recorded for the first time in Homoscleromorpha and others never before observed in other sponge groups. Illumina 16S amplicon sequencing was used to characterize this microbial community by compar...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Ruiz C,Villegas-Plazas M,Thomas OP,Junca H,Pérez T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastic pollution is now recognised as a major threat to marine environments and marine biota. Recent research highlights that diverse microbial species are found to colonise plastic surfaces (the plastisphere) within marine waters. Here, we investigate how the structure and diversity of marine plastisphere microbial ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Oberbeckmann S,Loeder MG,Gerdts G,Osborn AM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that a variety of physically undefended marine invertebrates have evolved strategies to control microbial epibiosis chemically. Ecologically meaningful experiments that demonstrate chemically mediated antibacterial effects are difficult due to the small number of cultivable bacteria. Based on th...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Harder T,Lau SC,Tam WY,Qian PY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Streptomyces sp. (BTL7) in synthesis of antibacterial agents reported from the marine sponge Dendrilla nigra was evaluated. Selective isolation of actinomycetes was performed on the newly developed selective media, Sponge Agar (SA) 1 and SA 2. The growth rate and antibiotic production were increased on the...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology ecology

authors： Selvin J,Joseph S,Asha KR,Manjusha WA,Sangeetha VS,Jayaseema DM,Antony MC,Denslin Vinitha AJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00