scholarly journals Effects of Atrazine on Chernozem Microbial Communities Evaluated by Traditional Detection and Modern Sequencing Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1832
Author(s):  
Fengshan Yang ◽  
Mengying Gao ◽  
Honggang Lu ◽  
Yuning Wei ◽  
Huiting Chi ◽  
...  

Atrazine is a long residual herbicide commonly used in maize fields. Although atrazine can effectively control weeds and improve crop yield, long-term application leads to continuous pollution in the agricultural ecological environment, especially in the soil ecosystem, and its impact on soil microorganisms is still not clear. Four methods were used in the experiment to clarify the effect of atrazine on the bacterial populations of cultivated soil layers of chernozem in a cold region in different periods: high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), colorimetry, microplate, and high-throughput sequencing. The level of residual atrazine in cold chernozem decreased from 4.645 to 0.077 mg/kg soil over time, and the residue gradually leached into deep soil and then decreased after accumulating to a maximum value. Atrazine significantly affected the activities of urease and polyphenol oxidase activity in the soil layers at different periods but had no significant effect on sucrase and phosphatase activity. Atrazine significantly reduced the diversity of microbial carbon source utilization and total activity in soil layers of 0–10 and 20–30 cm but only reduced the diversity of microbial carbon source utilization in the 10–20 cm layer. Atrazine had no significant effect on bacterial populations (10–12 phyla, 29–34 genera), but had a slight effect on the relative abundance of various groups. Atrazine significantly reduced the diversity of bacterial populations in cultivated soil layers of chernozem in a cold region, and the diversity of bacterial populations decreased with decreased residue. This lays a foundation for guiding the safe use of herbicides on farmland in Northeast China.

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 683-691
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ming Chen ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Shao-Min Zeng ◽  
Yao Chen ◽  
Yong-Yan Guo ◽  
...  

The use of rain shelters in pear cultivation has been shown to improve yields and the appearance and quality of fruit, as well as reduce diseases and pests; however, how rain shelters affect soil chemical properties, soil enzyme activity, and soil microbial diversity remains unknown. Here, we studied pear trees under rain-shelter cultivation and open-field cultivation in the same orchard and compared fruit quality, soil chemical characteristics, soil enzyme activity, and soil microbial diversity. Results showed that rain shelters can significantly (p < 0.05) increase the sugar content (sweetness) of pear fruits and decrease the content of acids. The levels of available phosphorus, available potassium, organic matter, and water in soils under rain shelters were significantly (p < 0.05) lower than in soils in open fields. Rain-shelter treatment increased soil polyphenol oxidase activity and decreased phosphomonoesterase, urease, and sucrase activity. Analysis of microbial carbon-source utilization rates and microbial diversity showed that open-field cultivation is beneficial for microbial carbon-source utilization and microbial diversity in rhizosphere soil. Our study found that rain-shelter cultivation is not beneficial to soil fertility, microbial carbon-source metabolism and utilization, matter cycling, or microbial diversity and that the use of rain shelters may require appropriate nutrient and organic matter supplementation to maintain long-term cultivation of crops; whereas, the effects of environmental factors on open-field cultivation are greater, and more refined water and fertilizer management is required to improve fruit quality.


Data in Brief ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 104434
Author(s):  
Yun Wang ◽  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Guangna Zhang ◽  
Xinli Wang ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1004-1013
Author(s):  
Haiming Tang ◽  
Chao Li ◽  
Li Wen ◽  
Weiyan Li ◽  
Lihong Shi ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang Haiming ◽  
Xiao Xiaoping ◽  
Li Chao ◽  
Pan Xiaochen ◽  
Cheng Kaikai ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Kavitha K ◽  
Asha S ◽  
Hima Bindu T.V.L ◽  
Vidyavathi M

The safety and efficacy of a drug is based on its metabolism or metabolite formed. The metabolism of drugs can be studied by different in vitro models, among which microbial model became popular. In the present study, eight microbes were screened for their ability to metabolize phenobarbital in a manner comparable to humans with a model to develop alternative systems to study human drug metabolism. Among the different microbes screened, a filamentous fungi Rhizopus stolonifer metabolized phenobarbital to its metabolite which is used for further pharmacological and toxicological studies. The transformation of phenobarbital was identified by high- performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Interestingly, Rhizopus stolonifer sample showed an extra metabolite peak at 3.11min. compared to its controls. The influence of different carbon sources in media used for growth of fungus, on metabolite production was studied, to find its effect in production of metabolite as the carbon source may influence the growth of the cell.


2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Е.Е. Frantsuzova ◽  
A.A. Vetrova

Genes involved in the dibenzothiophene degradation have been identified in the genome of Gordonia alkanivorans 135. The efficiency of the degradation was evaluated by high-performance liquid chromatography after the strain cultivation in mineral sulfur-free medium with glucose (hexadecane) as a carbon source at a temperature of 28 °C. The results obtained in this work allow us to consider the Gordonia alkanivorans 135 strain as promising for development of bio technological method for microbial oil desulfurization. Gordonia, dibenzothiophene, biodegradation. This work was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant no. 19-74-00097).


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 678
Author(s):  
Zhongkai Wu ◽  
Haifu Huang ◽  
Wenhui Xiong ◽  
Shiming Yang ◽  
Huanhuan Huang ◽  
...  

We report a novel Ni3S2 carbon coated (denoted as NCC) rod-like structure prepared by a facile one-pot hydrothermal method and employ it as a binder free electrode in supercapacitor. We coated carbon with glucose as carbon source on the surface of samples and investigated the suitable glucose concentration. The as-obtained NCC rod-like structure demonstrated great performance with a huge specific capacity of 657 C g−1 at 1 A g−1, preeminent rate capability of 87.7% retention, the current density varying to 10 A g−1, and great cycling stability of 76.7% of its original value through 3500 cycles, which is superior to the properties of bare Ni3S2. The result presents a facile, general, viable strategy to constructing a high-performance material for the supercapacitor applications.


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