不同水分管理下稻田土壤CH4和N2O排放与微生物菌群的关系

采用MPN计数法对黑土(海伦)和草甸棕壤(沈阳)稻田生长季4种微生物菌群数量进行了测定,同时采用封闭式箱法对CH4和N2O通量进行观测,以深入了解稻田生物源温室气体排放的微生物学过程,两地试验田均采用长期淹灌与间歇灌溉两种不同水分管理,对实验结果多元回归分析,结果表明,海伦与沈阳两地稻田两种水分管理条件下CH4通量季节变化与产甲烷菌数季节变化存在极显著正相关关系沈阳稻田生长季CH4通量季节变化与甲烷氧化菌数季节变化具有显著正相关性,间歇灌溉条件下黑土稻田N2O通量与反硝化菌数呈显著性正相关关系,两种水分管理条件下沈阳稻田N2O通量与硝化菌数具有显著正相关关系,间歇灌溉条件下沈阳稻田N2O通量与反硝化菌数呈显著性正相关关系。     

三硝酸丙三酯对厌氧真菌和甲烷菌代谢产物、纤维水解酶活性及菌群丰度的影响

【背景】近年来硝酸酯化合物抑制瘤胃甲烷生成的能力受到广泛关注,但鲜有研究关注其对瘤胃内主要纤维降解菌——厌氧真菌的影响。【目的】研究三硝酸丙三酯(Nitroglycerin,NG)对厌氧真菌和甲烷菌活性和代谢的影响。【方法】利用厌氧真菌(Piromyces sp.F1)纯培养及与甲烷菌共培养(Piromyces sp.F1+Methanobrevibacter sp.),比较不同剂量NG(0.0、6.6、13.2和19.8μmol/L)对厌氧真菌和甲烷菌的代谢终产物、主要纤维水解酶活性及菌群丰度的影响。【结果】厌氧真菌共培养组中,6.6μmol/L NG完全抑制了甲烷的生成,积累了氢气和甲酸(P0.05),降低了乙酸浓度以及木聚糖酶和羧甲基纤维素酶活性(P0.05),但未显著影响厌氧真菌和甲烷菌的丰度(P0.05)。厌氧真菌纯培养组中,6.6μmol/L NG显著降低了甲酸、乙酸、乙醇、木聚糖酶和羧甲基纤维素酶活性(P0.05),但总产气量和氢气产量没有显著差异(P0.05)。在2个培养体系中,随着剂量的升高,NG对厌氧真菌和甲烷菌的抑制增强。【结论】NG能够抑制甲烷菌的活性,但对厌氧真菌也有抑制作用。     

Methanogenesis in granular sludge exposed to oxygen

Abstract Substrate competition between methanogenic and facultative bacteria under highly aerobic conditions was investigated in batch experiments. Natural mixed cultures of anaerobic bacteria immobilized in granular sludge were able to concurrently utilize oxygen and produce methane when supplied with ethanol as substrate. The most oxygen tolerant sludge converted 3 to 25% of substrate chemical oxygen demand to methane after 3 days while 23 to 2 mg 1⁻¹ of dissolved oxygen were present in the media. The tolerance of methanogens to oxygen and their coexistence with facultative bacteria were evident even after long periods of oxygen exposure. Eventually, methane oxidizing bacteria developed in the co-culture. The consumption of oxygen by facultative bacteria, creating anaerobic microniches inside the granules, is hypothesized to protect the methanogens.     

Biogenic methane production in formation waters from a large gas field in the North Sea

Methanogenesis was investigated in formation waters from a North Sea oil rimmed gas accumulation containing biodegraded oil, which has not been subject to seawater injection. Activity and growth of hydrogenotrophic methanogens was measured but acetoclastic methanogenesis was not detected. Hydrogenotrophic methanogens showed activity between 40 and 80°C with a temperature optimum (ca. 70°C) consistent with in situ reservoir temperatures. They were also active over a broad salinity range, up to and consistent with the high salinity of the waters (90 g l⁻¹). These findings suggest the methanogens are indigenous to the reservoir. The conversion of H₂ and CO₂ to CH₄ in methanogenic enrichments was enhanced by the addition of inorganic nutrients and was correlated with cell growth. Addition of yeast extract also stimulated methanogenesis. Archaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences recovered from enrichment cultures were closely related to Methanothermobacter spp. which have been identified in other high-temperature petroleum reservoirs. It has recently been suggested that methanogenic oil degradation may be a major factor in the development of the world’s heavy oils and represent a significant and ongoing process in conventional deposits. Although an oil-degrading methanogenic consortium was not enriched from these samples the presence and activity of communities of fermentative bacteria and methanogenic archaea was demonstrated. Stimulation of methanogenesis by addition of nutrients suggests that in situ methanogenic biodegradation of oil could be harnessed to enhance recovery of stranded energy assets from such petroleum systems.     

Microstructure and molecular microbiology of rapidly formed hydrogen‐ and methane‐producing granules in a phase‐separated anaerobic environment

Hydrogen and methane were simultaneously produced in a two‐phase reactor, operated to separate the reactions of hydrogen and methanogen production. Each reactor was inoculated with a seed enriched with different microbial consortia. The first phase was operated with a hydraulic retention time of 7 days and at an organic loading rate of 7.7 g VS L^?1 d^?1 that produced a stable pH of 5.5. This suppressed the growth of methanogens and as a result, the off gas contained up to 27% hydrogen. The second phase was operated with a hydraulic retention time of 12 days and at an organic loading rate of 3.6 g VS L^?1 d^?1. This permitted the growth of hydrogenotrophs and methanogens to produce methane at a concentration of 60%. Examination of the microbial population of the two reactors both microscopically and using PCR, showed an effective separation of hydrogen‐ and methane‐producing microbial communities. The study revealed that the suppression of hydrogentrophs and methanogens can be achieved by adopting rapid method that leads the growth of hydrogen‐ and methane‐producing granules in phase‐separated anaerobic environment.     

Using enriched cultures for elevation of anaerobic syntrophic interactions between acetogens and methanogens in a high-load continuous digester

Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are key intermediates in anaerobic digestion. Enriched acetogenic and methanogenic cultures were used for syntrophic anaerobic digestion of VFAs in a high-load continuous reactor fed with acetic (HAc), propionic (HPr) and butyric (HBu) acids at maximum concentrations of 5, 3 and 4 g/L, respectively. Interactive effects of HPr, HBu and HAc were analyzed. Furthermore, hydraulic retention time (HRT) and methanogen to acetogen population ratio (M/A) were investigated as key microbiological and operating variables of VFA anaerobic degradations. Optimum conditions were found to be HPr = 1125.0 mg/L, HBu = 1833.4 mg/L, HAc = 1727.4 mg/L, HRT = 21 h and M/A = 2.5 (corresponding to maximum VFA removal and biogas production rate (BPR)). Results of verification experiments and predicted values from fitted correlations were in close agreement at 95% confidence interval. HRT and M/A had positive effects on VFA removal and BPR. M/A was the most important factor that affected BPR. All VFAs inhibited VFA removals.     

Sequence divergence of an archaebacterial gene cloned from a mesophilic and a thermophilic methanogen

Summary A 1.6-kb fragment of DNA from the thermophilic, methane-producing, anaerobic archaebacteriumMethanobacterium thermoautotrophicum H has been cloned and sequenced. This DNA complements mutations in both the purE₁ and purE₂ loci ofEscherichia coli. The sequence of theM. thermoautotrophicum DNA predicts that complementation inE. coli results from the synthesis of a polypeptide with a molecular weight of 36,249. A polypeptide apparently of this molecular weight is synthesized inE. coli minicells containing recombinant plasmids that carry the cloned fragment of methanogen DNA. We have previously cloned and sequenced a purE-complementing gene from the mesophilic methanogenMethanobrevibacter smithii. The two methanogen-derived purE-complementing genes are 53% homologous and encode polypeptides that are 45% homologous in their amino acid sequences but would be 74% homologous if conservative amino acid substitutions were considered as maintaining sequence homology. The genome ofM. thermoautotrophicum has a molar G+C content of 49.7%, whereas the genome ofM. smithii is 30.6% G+C. Conservation of encoded amino acids while accommodating the very different G+C contents is accomplished by use of different codons that encode the same amino acid. The majority of base changes occur at the third codon position. The intergenic regions of the clonedM. thermoautotrophicum DNA contain sequences previously identified as ribosome binding sites and as putative methanogen promoters. Although the two purE-complementing genes are apparently derived from a common ancestor, only the gene fromM. smithii maintains a codon usage that conforms to the RNY rule.     

Trace metal and vitamin requirements of Methanococcoides methylutens grown with trimethylamine

Trace organic nutrient and metal requirements for the growth of Methanococcoides methylutens strain TMA-10 were determined in defined medium that contained trimethylamine as the substrate. Biotin was the only organic supplement required in place of yeast extract, Trypticase or a mixture of 8 B-vitamins. Fe an Ni were required for growth and low concentrations of Fe²⁺ (<5 M) and Ni²⁺ (<0.25 M) provided limited growth. In the absence of added Co the growth rate was reduced by 94% and growth was limited at concentrations below 0.1 M. Stimulation of growth by Se, Mo, B, Al, Zn, Mn or Cu could not be demonstrated.     

pS10147-2, a3.7 kb multicopy plasmid isolated from Streptomyces coelicolor

The following putative precursors of the pseudomurein were isolated from trichloroacetic acid extracts of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum: a uridine diphosphate activated derivative of glutamic acid and the uridine diphosphate activated peptides (see text). The activated glutamic acid residue and the three activated pepetides lack the glycan components N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid present in the intact pseudomurein. In this case uridine diphosphate should be directly linked to the amino group of a glutamic acid residue, which represents a new mode of amino acid and peptide activation.