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The bacterial community structure in an alkaline saline soil spiked with anthracene | Castro-Silva | Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
doi: 10.2225/vol16-issue5-fulltext-14
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, Vol 16, No 5 (2013)

The bacterial community structure in an alkaline saline soil spiked with anthracene

Carolina Castro-Silva, Víctor Manuel Ruíz-Valdiviezo, César Valenzuela-Encinas, Rocio Alcántara-Hernández, Yendi Navarro-Noya, Edgar Vázquez-Núñez, Marco Luna-Guido, Rodolfo Marsch, Luc Dendooven



Abstract

Background: The application of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) will affect the bacterial community structure as some groups will be favoured and others not. An alkaline saline soil with electrolytic conductivity (EC) 56 dS m-1 was spiked with anthracene and acetone while their effect on bacterial community structure was investigated.

Results: The percentages of Acidobacteria and Actinobacteria decreased over time, while the percentage of Proteobacteria, mostly Xanthomonadales, increased. The percentage of the phylotypes belonging to the Nocardioides, Rhodococcus and Streptomyces, known degraders of PAHs, was larger in the anthracene-amended soil than in the acetone-amended and unamended soil at day 14. The phylotypes belonging to the genera Sphingomonas, also a known degrader of PAHs, however, was lower. Weighted and unweighted PCoA with UniFrac indicated that phylotypes were similar in the different treatments at day 0, but changed at day 1. After 14 days, phylotypes in the unamended and acetone-amended soil were similar, but different from those in the anthracene-spiked soil.

Conclusions: It was found that incubating the soil and contaminating it with anthracene changed the bacterial community structure, but spiking the soil with acetone had little or no effect on the bacterial community structure compared to the unamended soil.




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