Impact of Azospirillum sp. B510 inoculation on rice-associated bacterial communities in a paddy field.

abstract：:The simultaneous extraction of plant organelle (mitochondria and plastid) genes during the DNA extraction step is a major limitation in investigating the community structures of bacteria associated with plants because organelle SSU rRNA genes are easily amplified by PCR using primer sets that are specific to bacteria....

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ikenaga M,Sakai M

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cyanobacteria (<2 µm, pico-cyanobacteria) are abundant in waters deeper than the oxic-anoxic zone in the halocline of a saline meromictic lake, Lake Suigetsu, Fukui, Japan. We have isolated 101 strains that were grouped into six groups by means of the phycobiliprotein composition and sequence homology of the int...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ohki K,Yamada K,Kamiya M,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium oxysporum is an ascomycetous fungus that is well-known as a soilborne plant pathogen. In addition, a large population of nonpathogenic F. oxysporum (NPF) inhabits various environmental niches, including the phytosphere. To obtain an insight into the origin of plant pathogenic F. oxysporum, we focused on the t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Inami K,Kashiwa T,Kawabe M,Onokubo-Okabe A,Ishikawa N,Pérez ER,Hozumi T,Caballero LA,de Baldarrago FC,Roco MJ,Madadi KA,Peever TL,Teraoka T,Kodama M,Arie T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particle structures that infect Acanthamoeba cells. The first Marseillevirus to be discovered was isolated in 2009. Since then, several other members of the Marseilleviridae family have been reported, including Lausannevirus, Senegalvirus, C...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Takemura M

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of microbes in the early development of ecosystems on new volcanic materials seems to be crucial to primary plant succession but is not well characterized. Here we analyzed the bacterial community colonizing 22-year-old volcanic deposits of the Miyake-jima Island (Japan) using culture-based and 16S rRNA gene ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Lu H,Fujimura R,Sato Y,Nanba K,Kamijo T,Ohta H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screening of pollutant degraders by relying solely on cultivation techniques such as liquid enrichment often fails to isolate the actual degraders in the environment. Community analyses by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) were performed to isolate bacteria that can degrade 3-chlorobenzoate (3CB) ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Morimoto S,Ogawa N,Hasebe A,Fujii T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated biofilm formation on biodegradable plastics in freshwater samples. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) was covered by a biofilm after an incubation in freshwater samples. A next generation sequencing analysis of the bacterial communities of biofilms that formed on PHBH films revealed t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Morohoshi T,Oi T,Aiso H,Suzuki T,Okura T,Sato S

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to characterize soil fungal communities in upland rice fields managed with tillage/non-tillage and winter cover-cropping (hairy vetch and cereal rye) practices, using PCR-based molecular methods. The study plots were maintained as upland fields for 5 years and the soils sampled in the second and fifth...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nishizawa T,Zhaorigetu,Komatsuzaki M,Sato Y,Kaneko N,Ohta H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbioses have played pivotal roles in biological, ecological, and evolutionary diversification. Symbiotic bacteria affect the biology of hosts in a number of ways. Esteya vermicola, an endoparasitic nematophagous fungus, has high infectivity in the pine wood nematode (PWN), which causes devastating ecological damage ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wang R,Dong L,Chen Y,Qu L,Wang Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Legionella genus find suitable conditions for their growth and survival in nuclear power plant cooling circuits. To limit the proliferation of Legionella pathogenic bacteria in nuclear power plant cooling circuits, and ensure that levels remain below regulatory thresholds, monochloramine treatment can b...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Jakubek D,Guillaume C,Binet M,Leblon G,DuBow M,Le Brun M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The splicing of a bacterial group II subclass B intron B.me.I1 from Bacillus megaterium chromosomes was investigated. RT-PCR and nucleic acid hybridization methods were used to understand the role of the intron-encoded protein (IEP) in the splicing of B.me.I1. An in vivo assay showed that the splicing occurred in the ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Chien MF,Tosa S,Huang CC,Endo G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth inhibition due to continuous cropping of asparagus is a major problem; the yield of asparagus in replanted fields is low compared to that in new fields, and missing plants occur among young seedlings. Although soil-borne disease and allelochemicals are considered to be involved in this effect, this is still con...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Urashima Y,Sonoda T,Fujita Y,Uragami A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-positive marine bacterium, Exiguobacterium sp. SBH81, was isolated as a hydrophilic organic-solvent tolerant bacterium, and exhibited high tolerance to various types of toxic hydrophilic organic solvents, including acetonitrile, at relatively high concentrations (up to 6% [v/v]) under the growing conditions. In...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kongpol A,Kato J,Tajima T,Vangnai AS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to survey cultivable heterotrophic bacteria from sea ice samples collected from Peter the Great Bay of the Sea of Japan, and to test the isolates for antagonistic activity. A total of 195 strains were isolated and investigated by a phenotypic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of th...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Romanenko LA,Tanaka N,Uchino M,Kalinovskaya NI,Mikhailov VV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a severe problem in aquaculture. The ability of drug resistance genes to transfer from a bacterial cell to another is thought to be responsible for the wide dissemination of these genes in the aquaculture environment; however, little is known about the gene transfer mechanis...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nonaka L,Maruyama F,Miyamoto M,Miyakoshi M,Kurokawa K,Masuda M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucose-containing oligosaccharides on the cell surface of some pathogenic bacteria are thought to be important for host-microbe interactions and to play a major role in the pathogenicity of bacterial pathogens. Here, we screened marine bacteria for glycosyltransferases using two methods: a one-pot glycosyltransferase ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kajiwara H,Toda M,Mine T,Nakada H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, anammox bacteria have been recognized as key players that contribute significantly to the release of large amounts of nitrogen in the global marine nitrogen cycle. In the present study, the diversity, community composition, and abundance of anammox bacteria from the sediments of four diverse...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Shehzad A,Liu J,Yu M,Qismat S,Liu J,Zhang XH

更新日期：2016-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of different land uses on densities of Escherichia coli, enterococci, and Clostridium perfringens in the water and soil of a tropical watershed were investigated. Densities of fecal indicator bacteria (FIBs) in the watershed exhibited a clear land-use dependency in the stream water. Significantly higher concen...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Goto DK,Yan T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly-developed molecular method, hierarchical oligonucleotide primer extension (HOPE), was used to analyze various groups within the species Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. PCR-amplified internally transcribed spacer sequences of 16S-23S from C. raciborskii in reservoir samples of Taiwan and Kinmen were examined. O...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wu JH,Hsu MH,Hung CH,Tseng IC,Lin TF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) microbial community was developed under a high organic carbon to nitrate (C/NO3-) ratio in an anoxic semi-continuous sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with glucose as the source of carbon and NO3- as the electron acceptor. Activated sludge collected from a municipa...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Chutivisut P,Isobe K,Powtongsook S,Pungrasmi W,Kurisu F

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizobial type III secretion system secretes effector proteins into host plant cells, which may either promote or inhibit symbiosis with legumes. We herein demonstrated that the type III secretion system of Bradyrhizobium sp. SUTN9-2 obstructed symbiosis with Lotus japonicus Miyakojima, L. japonicus Gifu, and Lotu...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hashimoto S,Goto K,Pyromyou P,Songwattana P,Greetatorn T,Tittabutr P,Boonkerd N,Teaumroong N,Uchiumi T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 ([CO2]) enhance the production and emission of methane in paddy fields. In the present study, the effects of elevated [CO2], elevated temperature (ET), and no nitrogen fertilization (LN) on methanogenic archaeal and methane-oxidizing bacterial community structures in a free-a...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Liu D,Tago K,Hayatsu M,Tokida T,Sakai H,Nakamura H,Usui Y,Hasegawa T,Asakawa S

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mining industry generates huge amounts of wastewater, containing toxic heavy metals. Treatment to remove heavy metals is necessary and recent work has been focused on finding more environmentally friendly materials for removing heavy metals from wastewater. Biosorption can be an effective process for heavy metal r...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Mohamad OA,Hao X,Xie P,Hatab S,Lin Y,Wei G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Terre Calde di Medolla" (TCM) (literally, "Hot Lands of Medolla") refers to a farming area in Italy with anomalously high temperatures and diffuse emissions of biogenic CO2, which has been linked to CH4 oxidation processes from a depth of 0.7 m to the surface. We herein assessed the composition of the total bacterial...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Cappelletti M,Ghezzi D,Zannoni D,Capaccioni B,Fedi S

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrifiers can produce and consume nitrous oxide (N(2)O). While little N(2)O is emitted from rice paddy soil, the same soil produces N(2)O when the land is drained and used for upland crop cultivation. In this study, we collected soils from two types of fields each at three locations in Japan; one type of field had ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tago K,Ishii S,Nishizawa T,Otsuka S,Senoo K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological flux and lifetime of methanol in anoxic marine sediments are largely unknown. We herein reported, for the first time, quantitative methanol removal rates in subsurface sediments. Anaerobic incubation experiments with radiotracers showed high rates of microbial methanol consumption. Notably, methanol oxi...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yanagawa K,Tani A,Yamamoto N,Hachikubo A,Kano A,Matsumoto R,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2016-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) cycles have been directly linked to the functional stability of ecosystems because N is an essential element for life. Furthermore, the supply of N to organisms regulates primary productivity in many natural ecosystems. Microbial communities have been shown to significantly contribute to N cycles because ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Isobe K,Ohte N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play a crucial role in the global nitrogen cycle by oxidizing ammonia to nitrite, and nitric oxide (NO) is a key intermediate in AOA for sustaining aerobic ammonia oxidation activity. We herein heterologously expressed the NO-forming, copper-containing, dissimilatory nitrite red...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kobayashi S,Hira D,Yoshida K,Toyofuku M,Shida Y,Ogasawara W,Yamaguchi T,Araki N,Oshiki M

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is a triazine herbicide that is widely used to control broadleaf weeds. Its widespread use over the last 50 years has led to the potential contamination of soils, groundwater, rivers, and lakes. Its main route of complete degradation is via biological means, which is carried out by soil microbiota using a 6-s...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Fernandes AFT,Wang P,Staley C,Aparecida Silva Moretto J,Miguel Altarugio L,Chagas Campanharo S,Guedes Stehling E,Jay Sadowsky M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched nonylphenol (BNP), a degradation product of nonylphenol polyethoxylates, exerts estrogenic effects on various organisms. The genes underlying BNP degradation by Sphingobium amiense DSM 16289T were analyzed by complete genome sequencing and compared with those of the versatile BNP-degrading Sphingobium cloacae...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ootsuka M,Nishizawa T,Hasegawa M,Kurusu Y,Ohta H

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00