稻虾共作对稻田土壤nirK反硝化微生物群落结构和多样性的影响

稻虾共作是水稻种植与克氏螯虾共作形成的互利共生的稻田种养复合生态模式。目前对稻虾共作模式稻田反硝化微生物多样性和群落结构的影响尚不清楚。本研究以江汉平原常规中稻模式(MR)为对照,设置连续3年(2014—2016年)稻虾共作模式(CR)为处理,通过特异引物提取中稻抽穗期稻田土壤nirK基因,采用Illumina Miseq高通量测序技术,探讨稻虾共作模式对稻田土壤nirK反硝化微生物多样性和群落结构的影响。结果表明:稻虾共作模式显著提升水稻抽穗期稻田土壤中硝态氮、全氮及全碳的含量,对土壤碳氮比、碱解氮和铵态氮含量没有显著影响。稻虾共作模式显著增加稻田土壤nirK基因微生物的丰富度指数,但对nirK基因微生物的多样性指数影响不显著。稻虾共作模式改变了nirK基因微生物在目、科、属、种水平的群落组成,较常规中稻模式,稻虾共作模式在各分类水平组成类群均减少;稻虾共作模式较常规中稻模式改变了目的种类,对共有目相对丰度没有显著性改变。RDA分析表明稻虾共作模式对土壤nirK基因菌群的群落结构有一定的改变,但稻虾共作模式与常规中稻模式在群落结构上仍保留着一定的相似性。硝态氮含量是影响nirK反硝化细菌群落结构的主效因子。可见,稻虾共作模式对微生物多样性指数没有显著影响,但显著增加了微生物丰富度指数,改变了稻田土壤nirK反硝化微生物在目、科、属、种的群落结构。     

Isolation, identification, and characterization of an aluminum-tolerant bacterium Burkholderia sp. SB1 from an acidic red soil

Aluminum (Al) toxicity usually occurs in acidic soils worldwide, which is detrimental to the growth of organisms. An Al-tolerant bacterium, SB1, was isolated from an acidic red soil of Chingkang Mountain, located in Jiangxi Province of China. Polyphasic analysis, including a 16S rDNA phylogenetic tree as well as morphological and physicochemical properties, revealed that the isolate was a gramnegative, rod-shaped bacterium, which was recognized as Burkholderia sp. SB1 and had extreme acidity tolerance (pH 2.2) and excellent Al resistance (270 mg L^-1 Al³⁺). It could remove Al by up to 97.7% at a concentration of 54 mg L^-1 Al³⁺. SB1 behavior under different temperatures and antibiotics was also examined. SB1 preferred moderate temperature conditions, ranging from 25 to 37℃, and exhibited notable resistance to multiple antibiotics (including ampicillin, streptomycin, and tetracycline), except for being sensitive to chloramphenicol. Therefore, as the first reported bacterium to possess favorable Al resistance and excellent Al removal, Burkholderia sp. SB1 can potentially be used as an agent for bioremediation of Al-contaminated acidic red soils.     

Specific assemblages of major capsid genes (g23) of T4-type bacteriophages isolated from upland black soils in Northeast China

We surveyed the major capsid genes (g23) of T4-type bacteriophages using the primers MZIA1bis and MZIA6 and DNA extracted from seven upland black soils in Northeast China. In total, 99 different g23 clones were obtained. Approximately half of the clones fell into paddy groups, whereas the rest belonged to one of several groups containing only clones from upland black soils or remained ungrouped, suggesting that the T4-type phage communities in the upland black soil were relatively similar to those in paddy field soils but that specific communities exclusively inhabit the upland black soil. UniFrac analysis of all of the g23 clones obtained from various environments indicated that the T4-type phage communities varied among marine, lake, paddy field soil and upland soil environments and that the T4-type phage communities in upland black soils varied by sampling location.