Is the decline of soil microbial biomass in late winter coupled to changes in the physical state of cold soils?

During winter when the active layer of Arctic and alpine soils is below 0 °C, soil microbes are alive but metabolizing slowly, presumably in contact with unfrozen water. This unfrozen water is at the same negative chemical potential as the ice. While both the hydrostatic and the osmotic components of the chemical potential will contribute to this negative value, we argue that the osmotic component (osmotic potential) is the significant contributor. Hence, the soil microorganisms need to be at least halotolerant and psychrotolerant to survive in seasonally frozen soils. The low osmotic potential of unfrozen soil water will lead to the withdrawal of cell water, unless balanced by accumulation of compatible solutes. Many microbes appear to survive this dehydration, since microbial biomass in some situations is high, and rising, in winter. In late winter however, before the soil temperature rises above zero, there can be a considerable decline in soil microbial biomass due to the loss of compatible solutes from viable cells or to cell rupture. This decline may be caused by changes in the physical state of the system, specifically by sudden fluxes of melt water down channels in frozen soil, rapidly raising the chemical potential. The dehydrated cells may be unable to accommodate a rapid rise in osmotic potential so that cell membranes rupture and cells lyse. The exhaustion of soluble substrates released from senescing plant and microbial tissues in autumn and winter may also limit microbial growth, while in addition the rising temperatures may terminate a winter bloom of psychrophiles.Climate change is predicted to cause a decline in plant production in these northern soils, due to summer drought and to an increase in freeze-thaw cycles. Both of these may be expected to reduce soil microbial biomass in late winter. After lysis of microbial cells this biomass provides nutrients for plant growth in early spring. These feedbacks, in turn, could affect herbivory and production at higher trophic levels.     

乳酸菌复合系和植物乳杆菌提高柳枝稷青贮效果

该文旨在探讨接种乳酸菌复合系SGL和植物乳杆菌（Lactobacillus plantarum）对柳枝稷青贮效果的影响。以营养生长阶段的柳枝稷为原料,分别接种1 OD600/kg 鲜质量的SGL和Lactobacillus Plantarum,以不接菌的处理作为对照。在发酵第3、10、20和30天开罐取样进行检测分析发酵饲料品质,通过短期人工瘤胃技术测定体外瘤胃发酵参数的变化,并运用高通量测序技术分析原料和青贮料的细菌多样性。结果表明：接种乳酸菌复合系SGL和Lactobacillus Plantarum均能有效抑制Enterobacter和Clostridium,使Lactobacillus成为控制发酵的优势菌,加快青贮过程中pH值的下降速率,提高柳枝稷青贮饲料品质,并提高柳枝稷青贮料的瘤胃发酵效果,复合菌系SGL比纯培养的Lactobacillus Plantarum的效果更突出。     

不同固体微生物菌剂对砒砂岩土壤性质和紫花苜蓿生长的影响

为研制改良砒砂岩土壤、强化植物生长的微生物菌剂,该研究以嗜盐芽孢杆菌Bacillus halotolerans P75、苜蓿中华根瘤菌Sinorhizobium meliloti D10、巨大芽孢杆菌Bacillus megaterium H3和枯草芽孢杆菌Bacillus subtilis HB01为原料,利用生物基材吸附混合,制备4种单一固体微生物菌剂和多种复合固体微生物菌剂。通过分析pH值、有机质含量、有效氮磷钾含量、酶活性和细菌数量等指标来研究添加微生物菌剂对砒砂岩土壤性质和紫花苜蓿幼苗生长的影响。结果表明,与不添加微生物菌剂的对照组相比,微生物菌剂能够使砒砂岩土壤pH值降到中性附近,促使土壤有机质、碱解氮、速效磷、速效钾含量显著增加,提高了土壤蔗糖酶和脲酶活性,增加了土壤细菌数量,同时促进了紫花苜蓿幼苗生长,其中以含菌株P75、D10和H3以及含菌株P75、D10、H3和HB01的复合菌剂的效果最佳。该试验研究可以为微生物菌剂在砒砂岩区土壤改良和植被恢复方面的应用提供试验基础和参考。     

提高食品微生物学实验课教学质量的探索

从采用灵活多变的教学手段、自行设计实验内容、强化实验操作技能和养成实验操作习惯等方面,提出如何提高食品微生物学实验课的教学质量,培养学生动手能力、独立思考解决问题的能力、创新能力。     

PCR-DGGE技术及其在发酵食品微生物研究中的应用

多聚酶链反应-变性梯度凝胶电泳分析技术(PCR-DGGE)是近年来微生物学研究中应用较广泛的分子技术之一。介绍了DGGE的基本原理及其在食品微生物学研究中的应用,着重阐述了PCR-DGGE在发酵食品研究中的应用进展。     

Microbial dynamics in an anaerobic soil slurry amended with glucose, and their dependence on geochemical processes

Under anoxic conditions, microbial activities interact closely with geochemical reactions and consequently affect soils, underlying aquifers, and the atmosphere. Recent studies have noted the relationships between microbial biodiversity and environmental conditions, but the dynamics of numerous coexisting microbial groups in connection with soil biogeochemical processes has never been investigated. In this work, we investigated the dynamics of anaerobic microbial populations using a new method combining PCR-SSCP and epifluorescent direct counts, and analysed these results in the light of biogeochemical changes. Batch incubations were performed over an 8-day period on a calcic cambisol (WRB) incubated anaerobically, either without amendment (treatment C) or after adding glucose (treatment +G). In treatment +G, the predominant microbial processes included (i) NO₃⁻ and NO₂⁻ reduction during the first 12 and 24 h of incubation respectively, (ii) fermentations during the first 6 days with non-symbiotic N₂ fixation between days 1 and 6, enabling bacterial growth during this period, and probably (iii) reduction of FeIII by H₂ oxidation throughout the incubation period. In treatment C, microbiological and geochemical measurements revealed no prominent microbial activities, and the PCR-SSCP method led to complex bacterial density profiles without prominent peaks. In treatment +G, 78 microbial groups were distinguished; these were divided into seven sets (A to G) according to their dynamics. Bacteria belonging to sets A, E and F grew during the period of intense fermentation and were probably able to fix N₂, as is the case with Clostridium butyricum (set A). Bacteria belonging to sets B, D, and G were probably able to reduce FeIII to FeII with concomitant oxidation of H₂ into H₃O⁺, but unable to fix N₂. Two microbial groups in these sets were closely related to Clostridium favosporum (set B) and the genus Bacillus (set B). Bacteria belonging to class C were probably only able to reduce N oxide(s). Lastly, we obtained two similar estimates of the gross increase in microbial biomass by taking into account either (i) the sum of gross increases for the 78 microbial groups, or (ii) the energy yield of catabolic reactions minus the energy requirement for N₂ fixation.     

兽医微生物学实验教学改革

为提高兽医微生物学实验教学质量,增强学生对实验操作技能的实践应用能力和创新能力,对传统实验课程教学进行探索性改革.通过加强实验室安全管理,改善实验室条件,优化课程体系,并将实验教学与科研创新有机结合,同时改革效果评价模式等,有效提高了兽医微生物实验教学质量,提高了学生学习积极性和自主性,提升了学生的综合实验素养.     

现代食品微生物学原理与应用研究生课程教学改革探索

现代食品微生物学原理及应用是食品科学与工程硕士研究生需要掌握的一门重要课程。在教学过程中,优化教学内容、创新教学方法、改革实验教学,有助于提高教学质量,培养研究生良好的科学精神和创新能力。     

BODIUM—A systemic approach to model the dynamics of soil functions

The increasing demand for biomass for food, animal feed, fibre and bioenergy requires optimization of soil productivity, while at the same time, protecting other soil functions such as nutrient cycling and buffering, carbon storage, habitat for biological activity and water filter and storage. Therefore, one of the main challenges for sustainable agriculture is to produce high yields while maintaining all the other soil functions. Mechanistic simulation models are an essential tool to fully understand and predict the complex interactions between physical, biological and chemical processes of soils that generate those functions. We developed a soil model to simulate the impact of various agricultural management options and climate change on soil functions by integrating the relevant processes mechanistically and in a systemic way. As a special feature, we include the dynamics of soil structure induced by tillage and biological activity, which is especially relevant in arable soils. The model operates on a 1D soil profile consisting of a number of discrete layers with dynamic thickness. We demonstrate the model performance by simulating crop growth, root growth, nutrient and water uptake, nitrogen cycling, soil organic matter turnover, microbial activity, water distribution and soil structure dynamics in a long-term field experiment including different crops and different types and levels of fertilization. The model is able to capture essential features that are measured regularly including crop yield, soil organic carbon, and soil nitrogen. In this way, the plausibility of the implemented processes and their interactions is confirmed. Furthermore, we present the results of explorative simulations comparing scenarios with and without tillage events to analyse the effect of soil structure on soil functions. Since the model is process-based, we are confident that the model can also be used to predict quantities that have not been measured or to estimate the effect of management measures and climate states not yet been observed. The model thus has the potential to predict the site-specific impact of management decisions on soil functions, which is of great importance for the development of a sustainable agriculture that is currently also on the agenda of the ‘Green Deal’ at the European level.     

土壤微生物学实验模块化的开设研究

高校微生物学实验教学注重培养学生的兴趣和科学探究技能,然而目前实验教学模式单一,容易导致学生学习兴趣丧失,自主学习能力下降,造成学习效果不佳。本文根据微生物学实验教学特点,对土壤微生物学实验设计了3个相互关联、前后衔接的实验模块,分别为：土壤微生物的采集与培养基制作,微生物的分离与纯化,微生物的鉴定和保藏。本文结合微生物学实验教程将独立的实验内容连成整体,并通过学生自主研究结合教师指导的模式,以达到加深学生对土壤微生物学知识理解及提高实验操作技能目的。