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Saman Bowatte Paul CD Newton Shona Brock Phil Theobald Dongwen Luo 《The ISME journal》2015,9(1):265-267
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from grazed pastures are a product of microbial transformations of nitrogen and the prevailing view is that these only occur in the soil. Here we show this is not the case. We have found ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) are present on plant leaves where they produce N2O just as in soil. AOB (Nitrosospira sp. predominantly) on the pasture grass Lolium perenne converted 0.02–0.42% (mean 0.12%) of the oxidised ammonia to N2O. As we have found AOB to be ubiquitous on grasses sampled from urine patches, we propose a ‘plant'' source of N2O may be a feature of grazed grassland.In terms of climate forcing, nitrous oxide (N2O) is the third most important greenhouse gas (Blunden and Arndt, 2013). Agriculture is the largest source of anthropogenic N2O (Reay et al., 2012) with about 20% of agricultural emissions coming from grassland grazed by animals (Oenema et al., 2005).Grazed grassland is a major source of N2O because grazers harvest nitrogen (N) from plants across a wide area but recycle it back onto the pasture, largely as urine, in patches of very high N concentration. The N in urine patches is often in excess of what can be used by plants resulting in losses through leaching as nitrate, as N2O and through volatilisation as ammonia (NH3) creating a high NH3 environment in the soil and plant canopy; an important point that we will return to later. The established wisdom is that N2O is generated exclusively by soil-based microbes such as ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB). This soil biology is represented in models designed to simulate N2O emissions and the soil is a target for mitigation strategies such as the use of nitrification inhibitors.We have previously shown that pasture plants can emit N2O largely through acting as a conduit for emissions generated in the soil, which are themselves controlled to some degree by the plant (Bowatte et al., 2014). In this case the origin of the emission is still the soil microbes. However, AOB have been found on the leaves of plants, for example, Norway spruce (Papen et al., 2002; Teuber et al., 2007) and weeds in rice paddies (Bowatte et al., 2006), prompting us to ask whether AOB might be present on the leaves of pasture species and contribute to N2O emissions as they do in soil.We looked for AOB on plants in situations where NH3 concentrations were likely to be high, choosing plants from urine patches in grazed pastures and plants from pastures surrounding a urea fertiliser manufacturing plant. DNA was extracted from the leaves (including both the surface and apoplast) and the presence of AOB tested using PCR. AOB were present in all the species we examined—the grasses Lolium perenne, Dactylis glomerata, Anthoxanthum odoratum, Poa pratensis, Bromus wildenowii and legumes Trifolium repens and T. subterraneum.To measure whether leaf AOB produce N2O, we used intact plants of ryegrass (L. perenne) lifted as cores from a paddock that had been recently grazed by adult sheep. The cores were installed in a chamber system designed to allow sampling of above- and belowground environments separately (Bowatte et al., 2014). N2O emissions were measured from untreated (control) plants and from plants where NH3 was added to the aboveground chamber and leaves were either untreated or sterilised by wiping twice with paper towels soaked in 1% hypoclorite (Sturz et al., 1997) and then with sterile water. We tested for the presence and abundance of AOB on the leaves by extracting DNA and using PCR and real-time PCR targeting the ammonia monoxygenase A (amoA) gene, which is characteristic of AOB. AOB identity was established using cloning and DNA sequencing. Further details of these experiments can be found in the Supplementary Information.The addition of NH3 to untreated plants significantly stimulated N2O emissions (P<0.001) compared with the controls; by contrast, the plants with sterilised leaves produced significantly less N2O than controls (P<0.001) even with NH3 added (Figure 1) providing strong evidence for emissions being associated with bacteria on the leaves. Control plants did emit N2O suggesting there was either sufficient NH3 available for bacterially generated emissions and/or other plant-based mechanisms were involved (Bowatte et al., 2014).Open in a separate windowFigure 1Effect of an elevated NH3 atmosphere and surface sterilisation of leaves on leaf N2O emissions measured over 1-h periods on three occasions during the day. Values are means (s.e.m.), where n=7.The major AOB species identified was Nitrosospira strain III7 that has been previously shown to produce N2O (Jiang and Bakken, 1999). We measured 109 AOB cells per m2 ryegrass leaf, assuming a specific leaf area of 250 cm2 g−1 leaf.The rate of production of N2O (0.1–0.17 mg N2O-N per m2 leaf area per hour) can be translated to a field situation using the leaf area index (LAI)—1 m2 leaf per m2 ground would be an LAI of 1. LAI in a pasture can vary from <1 to >6 depending on the management (for example, Orr et al., 1988). At LAI of 1, the AOB leaf emission rate would equate to a N2O emission rate of about 0.1–0.3 mg N2O-N per m2 ground per hour. By comparison, the emission rates measured after dairy cattle urine (650 kg N ha−1) was applied to freely and poorly drained soil were 0.024–1.55 and 0.048–3.33 mg N2O-N per m2 ground per hour, respectively (Li and Kelliher, 2005).The fraction of the NH3 that was converted to N2O by the leaf AOB was 0.02–0.42% (mean 0.12%). The mean value is close to that measured for Nitrosospira strains including strain III7 isolated from acidic, loamy and sandy soils where values ranged from 0.07 to 0.10% (Jiang and Bakken, 1999). This is good evidence that the AOB on leaves have the capacity to produce N2O at the same rate as AOB in soils. We do not suggest that leaf AOB will produce as much N2O as soil microbes; however, because leaf AOB have access to a source of substrate—volatilised NH3—that is unavailable to soil microbes and may constitute 26% (Laubach et al., 2013) to 40% (Carran et al., 1982) of the N deposited in the urine, N2O emissions from these aboveground AOB are additional to soil emissions. Further research is required to identify the situations in which leaf AOB contribute to total emissions and to quantify this contribution. 相似文献
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Kumaran Kandasamy Sujatha S Mohan Rajesh Raju Shivakumar Keerthikumar Ghantasala S Sameer Kumar Abhilash K Venugopal Deepthi Telikicherla Daniel J Navarro Suresh Mathivanan Christian Pecquet Sashi Kanth Gollapudi Sudhir Gopal Tattikota Shyam Mohan Hariprasad Padhukasahasram Yashwanth Subbannayya Renu Goel Harrys KC Jacob Jun Zhong Raja Sekhar Vishalakshi Nanjappa Lavanya Balakrishnan Roopashree Subbaiah YL Ramachandra Abdul B Rahiman Keshava TS Prasad Jian-Xin Lin Jon CD Houtman Stephen Desiderio Jean-Christophe Renauld Stefan N Constantinescu Osamu Ohara Toshio Hirano Masato Kubo Sujay Singh Purvesh Khatri Sorin Draghici Gary D Bader Chris Sander Warren J Leonard Akhilesh Pandey 《Genome biology》2010,11(1):1-9
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Microbial diversity and complexity in hypersaline environments: A preliminary assessment 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
The microbial communities in solar salterns and a soda lake have been characterized using two techniques: BIOLOG, to estimate
the metabolic potential, and amplicon length heterogeneity analysis, to estimate the molecular diversity of these communities.
Both techniques demonstrated that the halophilic Bacteria and halophilic Archaea populations in the Eilat, Israel saltern
are dynamic communities with extensive metabolic potentials and changing community structures. Halophilic Bacteria were detected
in Mono Lake and the lower salinity ponds at the Shark Bay saltern in Western Australia, except when the crystallizer samples
were stressed by exposure to Acid Green Dye #9899. At Shark Bay, halophilic Archaea were found only in the crystallizer samples.
These data confirm both the metabolic diversity and the phylogenetic complexity of the microbial communities and assert the
need to develop more versatile media for the cultivation of the diversity of bacteria in hypersaline environments. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2002) 28, 48–55 DOI: 10.1038/sj/jim/7000175
Received 20 May 2001/ Accepted in revised form 15 June 2001 相似文献
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JU Nnadi IN Dimelu SI Nwani JC Madu CI Atama GN Attamah 《African Journal of Aquatic Science》2018,43(1):27-34
The current study investigated the effects of termite insecticide, Termex® (imidacloprid 35.50% SC), on biometric variations and oxidative stress biomarkers in Clarias gariepinus. Fish were exposed to 4.00 and 6.00 µg l–1 sublethal Termex® concentrations in 2017. The gill and liver tissues were sampled on days 7, 14, 21 and 28 and the results indicated that hepatosomatic index (HSI) decreased significantly when compared with the control on days 14, 21 and 28. The condition factor (CF) and viscera-somatic index (VSI) also decreased during the study period. The decrease was greater at 6.00 µg l–1 Termex® concentration on days 21 and 28 for CF and days 14 to 28 for VSI, respectively. The lipid peroxidation (LPO) in both tissues was highest in the 6.00 µg l?1 Termex® and increased with the duration. There was significant decrease (p < 0.05) in superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase values, but significant increase in catalase activity in both tissues. The values of glutathione reductase in both tissues were comparable to the control, except on days 21 and 28 in the liver. There was negative correlation between the LPO in tissues and the HSI, CF and VSI values. The use of Termex® in the environment should be monitored to safeguard the health of aquatic organisms. 相似文献
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Sequence variation among 10 alleles of the alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) gene
of the Hawaiian drosophilid D. mimica was analyzed with reference to the
evolutionary history of the Hawaiian subgroup as well as to levels and
patterns of polymorphism of the Adh gene in continental drosophilid
species. The Adh gene of D. mimica is less polymorphic than that of other
drosophilid species, and no replacement substitutions were found.
Statistical analyses of the Adh alleles suggested the action of balancing
selection and revealed significant linkage disequilibrium among three of
the variable sites. The effective population size was estimated to be only
slightly smaller than that of continental species and, surprisingly, on the
same order of magnitude as the actual size.
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拐芹根化学成分研究Ⅱ 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
从伞型科当归属植物拐芹(Angelica polymorpha Maxim)的根及根茎中又分得4个结晶性化合物。经物理常数测定、光谱分析,分别鉴定为欧前胡素Ⅰ,异氧化前胡内酯Ⅱ,Pabulenol Ⅲ,Phellopterin Ⅳ。 相似文献
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Bacterioplankton Dynamics in the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica: Production and Biomass Loss over Four Seasons 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Abstract Research of the microbial ecology of McMurdo Dry Valley lakes has concentrated primarily on phototrophs; relatively little is known about the heterotrophic bacterioplankton. Bacteria represent a substantial proportion of water column biomass in these lakes, comprising 30 to 60% of total microplankton biomass. Bacterial production and cell numbers were measured 3 to 5 times, within four Antarctic seasons (October to January), in Lakes Fryxell, Hoare, and Bonney. The winter-spring transition (September to October) was included during one year. Lake Fryxell was the most productive, but variable, lake, followed by Lakes Bonney and Hoare. Bacterial production ranged from 0 to 0.009 μg C ml-1 d-1; bacterial populations ranged from 3.2 x 10(4) to 4.4 x 10(7) cells ml-1. Bacterial production was always greatest just below the ice cover at the beginning of the season. A second maximum developed just above the chemocline of all the lakes, as the season progressed. Total bacterioplankton biomass in the lakes decreased as much as 88% between successive sampling dates in the summer, as evidenced by areal integration of bacterial populations; the largest decreases in biomass typically occurred in mid-December. A forward difference model of bacterial loss in the trophogenic zone and the entire water column of these lakes showed that loss rates in the summer reached 6.3 x 10(14) cells m-2 d-1 and 4.16 x 10(12) cells m-2 d-1, respectively. These results imply that bacteria may be a source of carbon to higher trophic levels in these lakes, through grazing. 相似文献
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Our study was designed to examine how components of complex mixtures can
inhibit the binding of other components to receptor sites in the olfactory
system of the spiny lobster Panulirus argus. Biochemical binding assays
were used to study how two- to six-component mixtures inhibit binding of
the radiolabeled odorants taurine, L-glutamate and
adenosine-5'-monophosphate to a tissue fraction rich in dendritic membrane
of olfactory receptor neurons. Our results indicate that binding inhibition
by mixtures can be large and is dependent on the nature of the odorant
ligand and on the concentration and composition of the mixture. The binding
inhibition by mixtures of structurally related components was generally
predicted using a competitive binding model and binding inhibition data for
the individual components. This was not the case for binding inhibition by
most mixtures of structurally unrelated odorants. The binding inhibition
for these mixtures was generally smaller than that for one or more of their
components, indicating that complex binding interactions between components
can reduce their ability to inhibit binding. The magnitude of binding
inhibition was influenced more by the mixture's precise composition than by
the number of components in it, since mixtures with few components were
sometimes more inhibitory than mixtures with more components. These
findings raise the possibility that complex binding interactions between
components of a mixture and their receptors may shape the output of
olfactory receptor neurons to complex mixtures.
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