abstract：:The inhibitory effects of ammonia on two different degradation pathways of methanogenic acetate were evaluated using a pure culture (Methanosaeta thermophila strain PT) and defined co-culture (Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus strain TM and Thermacetogenium phaeum strain PB), which represented aceticlastic and sy...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kato S,Sasaki K,Watanabe K,Yumoto I,Kamagata Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and abundance of Burkholderia species in sugarcane field soils were investigated by a 16S rRNA gene-based approach using genus-specific primers. A total of 365,721 sequences generated by the Illumina MiSeq platform were assigned to the genus Burkholderia. Nearly 58% of these sequences were placed in a pr...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tago K,Itoh H,Kikuchi Y,Hori T,Sato Y,Nagayama A,Okubo T,Navarro R,Aoyagi T,Hayashi K,Hayatsu M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of ferrihydrite to methanogenic microbial communities obtained from a thermophilic anaerobic digester suppressed methanogenesis in a dose-dependent manner. The amount of reducing equivalents consumed by the reduction of iron was significantly smaller than that expected from the decrease in the production ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yamada C,Kato S,Ueno Y,Ishii M,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophyton ajelloi is a geophilic dermatophyte that specializes in the decomposition of native keratin. It exists in soil with a permanent influx of keratin matter. In the present study, two PCR-based methods were used for the identification and intra-species differentiation of T. ajelloi strains isolated from 3 typ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ciesielska A,Bohacz J,Korniłłowicz-Kowalska T,Stączek P

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Terrestrial hydrocarbon seeps are an important source of naturally emitted methane over geological time. The exact community compositions responsible for carbon cycling beneath these surface features remain obscure. As sulfate reduction represents an essential process for anoxic organic mineralization, this study coll...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Cheng TW,Lin LH,Lin YT,Song SR,Wang PL

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Rice seedlings were inoculated with Azospirillum sp. B510 and transplanted into a paddy field. Growth in terms of tiller numbers and shoot length was significantly increased by inoculation. Principal-coordinates analysis of rice bacterial communities using the 16S rRNA gene showed no overall change from B510 inoculati...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Bao Z,Sasaki K,Okubo T,Ikeda S,Anda M,Hanzawa E,Kakizaki K,Sato T,Mitsui H,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the colonization rate and communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the roots of Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta (Japanese pear) in orchards to investigate the effect of phosphorus (P) fertilization on AMF. Soil cores containing the roots of Japanese pear were collected from 13 orchards in Tottori Pr...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yoshimura Y,Ido A,Iwase K,Matsumoto T,Yamato M

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Microbes interact with each other in multicellular communities and this interaction enables certain microorganisms to survive in various environments. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a highly adaptable bacterium that ubiquitously inhabits diverse environments including soil, marine habitats, plants and animals. Behind this ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tashiro Y,Yawata Y,Toyofuku M,Uchiyama H,Nomura N

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:HcRNAV is a small icosahedral virus that infects the shellfish-killing marine dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama, which harbors a dicistronic linear single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) genome ca. 4.4 kb in length. Its major capsid protein (MCP) gene sequence is not expressed by various strains of Escherichia coli, pos...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wada K,Kimura K,Hasegawa A,Fukuyama K,Nagasaki K

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:N-Acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are used as quorum-sensing signaling molecules by many Gram-negative bacteria. Here, 413 bacterial strains were obtained from the roots of potato plants and screened for AHL-degrading bacteria using Chromobacterium violaceum reporter strains. Sixty one isolates degraded N-hexanoyl-L-ho...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Rashid R,Morohoshi T,Someya N,Ikeda T

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Rapid and continuous pressure treatment was realized using a hydraulic pump and the momentary decompression following high pressurization was used to inactivate bacteria. The number of colony-forming E. coli decreased to 1/1000 in response to 10 cycles of pressure treatment. In groundwater samples, repeated pressure t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Baba T,Yamaguchi N,Tani K,Nasu M

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:We established artificial consortia of bacteria inoculated from soil and a green alga, Chlorella vulgaris NIES-227. The bacteria and the alga were mixed in a tube or partitioned in a dialysing culture vessel, and the bacterial composition was examined after cultivation. The community of bacteria formed in the consorti...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ueda H,Otsuka S,Senoo K

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:To clarify altitudinal changes in the bacterial community on Gulkana Glacier in Alaska, we analyzed bacterial 16S rRNA gene by low-cycle PCR amplification, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), and culturing in a snowmelt medium at 4°C. Low-cycle PCR-based cloning revealed the presence of 100 bacterial OTUs;...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Segawa T,Takeuchi N,Ushida K,Kanda H,Kohshima S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, degradative plasmids have been isolated from bacteria capable of degrading a variety of both natural and man-made compounds. Degradative plasmids belonging to three incompatibility (Inc) groups in Pseudomonas (IncP-1, P-7, and P-9) have been well studied in terms of their replication, mainte...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Shintani M,Takahashi Y,Yamane H,Nojiri H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic and molecular analyses showed the presence of endobacteria inside the mycelia of four out of twelve nitrous oxide (N(2)O)-producing fungal isolates identified as Mortierella elongata. The 16S rRNA gene was successfully amplified with DNA extracted directly from the endobacterium-containing fungal strains a...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Sato Y,Narisawa K,Tsuruta K,Umezu M,Nishizawa T,Tanaka K,Yamaguchi K,Komatsuzaki M,Ohta H

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:A comprehensive survey of bacterial and archaeal community structures within granular sludges taken from twelve different types of full-scale, food-processing wastewater-treating, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors was performed with a 16S rRNA gene-based clone library method. In total, 1,282 bacterial 16...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Narihiro T,Terada T,Kikuchi K,Iguchi A,Ikeda M,Yamauchi T,Shiraishi K,Kamagata Y,Nakamura K,Sekiguchi Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes the occurrence of a unique archaeal ammonia monooxygenase alpha subunit (amoA) gene in nitrifying acid-sulfate soil microcosms at pH 3.5. The soil was collected from an abandoned paddy field in Thailand. Microcosms were incubated in the dark at 30°C for 372 days with the following three tre...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nakaya A,Onodera Y,Nakagawa T,Satoh K,Takahashi R,Sasaki S,Tokuyama T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a nitrogen-fixing tree, black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), on the distribution of bacterial species were examined in a Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) and black locust-dominated area. DNA was extracted from the soil at depths of 0-5 and 5-10 cm, collected at the border between a Japanese black ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Taniguchi T,Kataoka R,Tamai S,Yamanaka N,Futai K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and fifty nine isolates of fluorescent pseudomonads were obtained from the leaves and roots of potato plants. Of these, 20 leaf isolates and 28 root isolates induced violacein production in two N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-reporter strains-Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 and VIR24. VIR24 is a new report...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Someya N,Morohoshi T,Okano N,Otsu E,Usuki K,Sayama M,Sekiguchi H,Ikeda T,Ishida S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide variety of haloorganic compounds undergo reductive dehalogenation by certain anaerobic microorganisms. Metabolic reductive dehalogenation is coupled with energy-conserving respiratory electron transport in which a halogenated compound is used as the terminal electron acceptor, the biological process called deha...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hiraishi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Changes in the bacterial community in soil-water suspensions during the enrichment period of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T degraders were examined using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. The nucleotide sequences of almost all major bands at the degradation of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T correspon...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Huong NL,Itoh K,Suyama K

更新日期：2008-01-01 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 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：:The relative isolation and unique physical properties of the Savusavu Hot Springs in Fiji may yield unique thermophiles. This study was conducted to determine the presence of aerobic thermophilic bacteria in these hot springs. A total of 104 thermophilic bacterial isolates were characterized and using Thermus and Baci...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Narayan VV,Hatha MA,Morgan HW,Rao D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00