Article
Forestry
Min He, Xiaojian Zhong, Yun Xia, Linglin Xu, Quanxin Zeng, Liuming Yang, Yuexin Fan
Summary: Increasing nitrogen deposition does not significantly change the diversity and structure of soil microbial communities, but it does affect certain sensitive microbial genera. Soil properties and nutrient availability, such as pH, NO3--N, dissolved organic N, and total phosphorus, play a predominant role in shaping bacterial community diversity and structure, while the effects on fungal communities are less pronounced. Sensitive microbial groups respond to nitrogen deposition based on changes in available nutrients, particularly limited nitrogen or phosphorus.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Xiaoyu Xu, Yuanyuan Miao, Huan Wang, Juan Du, Chenqiang Wang, Xuewei Shi, Bin Wang
Summary: This study utilized high-throughput sequencing and high-performance liquid chromatography to investigate the diversity of epiphytic microbial communities and physicochemical indicators in different wine grape varieties. The results showed that the grape variety significantly influences the structure of surface microbial communities.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shaoyi Jiang, Bowen Sun, Renbin Zhu, Chenshuai Che, Dawei Ma, Runfang Wang, Haitao Dai
Summary: The structure of airborne microbial communities is influenced by environmental factors, and bacteria and fungi mainly originate from soil, plants, human and animal feces. Bacterial abundance and diversity vary in different seasons and different sizes of PM.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
Zhuang Ge, Shuangyi Li, Roland Bol, Ping Zhu, Chang Peng, Tingting An, Na Cheng, Xu Liu, Tingyu Li, Zhiqiang Xu, Jingkuan Wang
Summary: The study found that straw residue is mainly retained in soil as particulate organic carbon (POC) and during decomposition, POC significantly increased while dissolved organic carbon (DOC) decreased. The addition of straw residue decreased the complexity of the bacterial microbial network but increased the complexity of the fungal network in IF and IFM treatments.
SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Xiao-Min Li, Long-Jun Ding, Dong Zhu, Yong-Guan Zhu
Summary: This study investigated the responses of electrotrophic communities in paddy soil to different long-term fertilization practices, revealing significant changes in the community structure. The dominant electrotrophs were identified as Streptomyces genus in the CK, M, and MNPK soils, while Proteobacteria and Firmicutes were major electrotrophs in the NPK soil. Furthermore, it was found that electrotrophs enhanced dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) for all soils.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Jieying Deng, Hui Xu, Xiaomin Li, Ying Wu, Baocai Xu
Summary: This study analyzed the changes in volatile flavor compounds and microbial communities in post-ripening Jinhua ham. Hexanal and nonanal were identified as the main flavor substances in Jinhua ham, and their content increased during the post-ripening stage. High-throughput sequencing revealed that Aspergillus, Saccharomyces, Staphylococcus, and Cobetia were the dominant microorganisms in post-ripening Jinhua ham. The correlation analysis showed a positive relationship between Saccharomyces, Aspergillus, Staphylococcus, and the flavor of Jinhua ham during the post-ripening stage.
LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Guo, Yuanyuan Zheng, Jinhao Teng, Xumin Wang, Jiaxiu Song
Summary: The study found differences in microbial diversity inside and outside reservoirs, with the main microbial populations including Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae. As water flows into the reservoir, eutrophication worsens, and the growth of fungal populations may lead to deterioration in water quality.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
Micaela Tosi, William Deen, Rhae Drijber, Morgan McPherson, Ashley Stengel, Kari Dunfield
Summary: In a continuous corn trial, long-term nitrogen inputs had minor effects on soil microbial community structure, with differences between prokaryotes and fungi. Short-term shock nitrogen rates had minimal impact on microbial community structure, with changes observed at lower taxonomic levels and low nitrogen favoring phylogenetically diverse taxa.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Biao Suo, Zijie Dong, Yangyang Huang, Peng Guan, Xiaojie Wang, Huiping Fan, Zhongmin Huang, Zhilu Ai
Summary: Samples from a sweet dumplings factory were collected for microbial analysis. Viable cell count showed the presence of Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, lactic acid bacteria, and total plate count in various production line stages. High-throughput sequencing revealed the dominant bacteria to be Leuconostoc, Chryseobacterium, and Lactococcus, while the predominant fungi were Apiotrichum, Aspergillus, and Geotrichum in the final sweet dumpling product. The addition of rice flour significantly affected the bacterial community but not the fungal level. The combination of HTS and viable cell count effectively analyzed the changes in microbial load and diversity during sweet dumpling production.
LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Hong Min, Fengqiu An, Ting Wei, Song Wang, Pengfei Ma, Yong Dai
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the sensory indicators, biogenic amine contents, and bacterial community structure and diversity of chilled chicken stored at 4 degrees C under aerobic conditions. The results showed that the contents of putrescine and cadaverine increased significantly with storage time. The predominant spoilage bacteria found in chicken thighs were Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, Shewanella, and Yersinia, and the difference with chicken breasts was related to the presence of Myroides and absence of Yersinia. Bacterial diversity and richness indices showed fluctuating and decreasing trend with storage time. The key findings of this study can provide experimental data for food safety monitoring during refrigerated storage and preservation for poultry meat products.
FOOD SCIENCE & NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Youlin Chen, Haiming Chen, Qiuping Zhong, Yong-Huan Yun, Weijun Chen, Wenxue Chen
Summary: High-throughput sequencing was used to study microbial diversity in rice washing water (WRW) at different fermentation times, revealing a rich and diverse bacterial community structure. The core WRW microbiome includes potentially beneficial microbes. Environmental factors were found to significantly influence the assembly structure of the microbial community.
CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Binghan Xie, Heng Liang, Hong You, Shihai Deng, Zhongsen Yan, Xiaobin Tang
Summary: This study investigated the degradation of SMX and the response of microbial communities to different initial concentrations of SMX in MFCs. It was found that the highest SMX removal efficiency was achieved at 5 mg/L, while high concentration of SMX inhibited electron transfer. The 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing revealed significant shifts in anode biofilm communities with different initial SMX concentrations in MFCs.
Article
Parasitology
L. Paulina Maldonado-Ruiz, Saraswoti Neupane, Yoonseong Park, Ludek Zurek
Summary: The study analyzed the bacterial community of adult A. americanum ticks collected in eastern Kansas. The majority of ticks had no culturable bacteria, and those with culturable bacteria mainly carried endosymbiotic genera such as Coxiella and Rickettsia. High throughput sequencing revealed a poor midgut bacterial community in A. americanum ticks, dominated by endosymbiotic bacteria.
PARASITES & VECTORS
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Feng Jiao, Dongdong Zhang, Yang Chen, Jinhua Wu, Junying Zhang
Summary: Returning straw to the field coupled with fertilizer application is an effective method to improve the fertility of black soil in Northeast China. However, long-term chemical fertilizer application and straw returning have significant impacts on the bacterial community structure and diversity of black soil. Changes in soil pH were found to be the main factor leading to variations in soil bacterial communities. Although straw returning improves soil fertility, it does not alleviate the adverse effects of fertilizer-induced soil acidification on the composition and diversity of soil bacterial communities.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Congjun Yuan, Haodong Wang, Xiaoyong Dai, Meng Chen, Jun Luo, Rui Yang, Fangjun Ding
Summary: Soil microbes are important for microbial circulation and energy flow in ecosystems. The nutrient content and enzyme activity were analyzed, and high-throughput sequencing technology was used to study the rhizosphere soil microbial community in Rhododendron pudingense under different karst microhabitats. The results showed that microbial diversity did not differ significantly among microhabitats, but species composition varied between them, indicating soil heterogeneity in karst microhabitats.
Article
Ecology
Nana Liu, Huifeng Hu, Wenhong Ma, Ye Deng, Dimitar Dimitrov, Qinggang Wang, Nawal Shrestha, Xiangyan Su, Kai Feng, Yuqing Liu, Baihui Hao, Xinying Zhang, Xiaojuan Feng, Zhiheng Wang
Summary: This study assessed the relationships between the diversity and abundance of bacteria, fungi, and archaea in arid regions and found positive correlations among microbial functional groups. Studying microbial diversity patterns from the perspective of functional groups and co-occurrence networks can provide additional insights.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mengyue Sun, Mingcong Li, Yuqi Zhou, Jiai Liu, Wenchong Shi, Xiaoliang Wu, Baohua Xie, Ye Deng, Zheng Gao
Summary: This study investigates the effects of different levels and types of nitrogen deposition on soil microorganisms in coastal wetlands. The results show that nitrogen deposition can increase microbial diversity but high concentrations of NH4NO3 and NH4Cl may decrease it. Different types of nitrogen deposition enhance the deterministic process of community assembly and increase the complexity of microbial co-networks. The study provides new insights into the changes in soil microbial communities caused by long-term nitrogen deposition and their ecological effects.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Lingzhan Miao, Wanyi Li, Tanveer M. Adyel, Yu Yao, Ye Deng, Jun Wu, Yongqiang Zhou, Yue Yu, Jun Hou
Summary: Plastics in the environment create a unique microorganism habitat called the plastisphere. This study investigates the microbial communities in the plastisphere and their ability to biodegrade non-biodegradable and biodegradable plastics. The results show that biodegradable plastics have higher degradation rates and trigger faster succession of the plastisphere compared to non-biodegradable plastics. Ecological networks reveal that biodegradable plastics attract and retain key microorganisms that enhance biodegradation in freshwater ecosystems.
Article
Microbiology
Yingcheng Wang, Ning Dang, Kai Feng, Junbang Wang, Xin Jin, Shiting Yao, Linlin Wang, Songsong Gu, Hua Zheng, Guangxin Lu, Ye Deng
Summary: This study investigated the relationships between grass productivity and diversity and soil microbes in alpine grasslands. The researchers found that microbial diversity was negatively correlated with grass diversity, but positively correlated with grass productivity. The study also showed that grass formed complex and stable ecological networks with bacterial, archaeal, and fungal species, and the grass-fungal networks were the most robust. Additionally, the connectivity degrees of the grass-microbial network were positively correlated with grass productivity, indicating a positive feedback effect. These findings contribute to our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms between plants and microorganisms in alpine grassland ecosystems.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Linlin Wang, Mingliang Zhao, Xiongfeng Du, Kai Feng, Songsong Gu, Yuqi Zhou, Xingsheng Yang, Zhaojing Zhang, Yingcheng Wang, Zheng Zhang, Qi Zhang, Baohua Xie, Guangxuan Han, Ye Deng
Summary: Wetlands are important sources of methane emissions, and changes in the ecohydrological environment can affect methane emissions from coastal ecosystems. In this study, the researchers investigated the responses of prokaryotic, fungal, and cercozoan communities to inundation and found that inundation significantly altered methane emissions and microbial communities. The interdomain networks among microbial communities revealed that methane-associated prokaryotic and cercozoan organisms were keystone taxa, and environmental factors such as pH and soil nutrients played a role in regulating methane flux.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Shiqing Nie, Zhongwang Jing, Jichen Wang, Ye Deng, Yingshuang Zhang, Zheng Ye, Yuan Ge
Summary: Parkinson's disease (PD) has a strong association with the gut microbiome, but the relationship between the gut microbiome and the severity of PD is not well-studied. This study analyzed fecal samples from newly diagnosed and untreated PD patients and healthy controls to investigate this connection. The results showed that Desulfovibrio was significantly increased in PD patients and positively correlated with disease severity. The study also identified a potential pathogenic mechanism involving Desulfovibrio and excessive hydrogen sulfide production that accelerates PD development.
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiongfeng Du, Songsong Gu, Zheng Zhang, Shuzhen Li, Yuqi Zhou, Zhaojing Zhang, Qi Zhang, Linlin Wang, Zhicheng Ju, Chengliang Yan, Tong Li, Danrui Wang, Xingsheng Yang, Xi Peng, Ye Deng
Summary: Soil bacterial communities in a coastal area follow a distance-decay relationship and the distribution is influenced by body size. This study collected soil samples from two adjacent ecosystems and found that the entire microbial community, as well as individual taxonomic groups, exhibited distance-decay patterns. The turnover rate of microbial communities was higher in nontidal soils and topsoil, with body size influencing the spatial limitation in nontidal topsoil but not in tidal soils.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ke Shi, Bin Liang, Kai Feng, Daliang Ning, Carolyn R. Cornell, Yanqing Zhang, Wenbin Xu, Min Zhou, Ye Deng, Jiandong Jiang, Tiejun Liu, Aijie Wang, Jizhong Zhou
Summary: Electrostimulated hydrolysis acidification (eHA) is an efficient wastewater pretreatment biotechnology that accelerates the removal of refractory pollutants by affecting microbial interspecies associations. This study investigated the principles of cross-niche microbial associations and community assembly using molecular ecological network and phylogenetic bin-based null model analysis. The results showed that electrostimulation significantly increased the degradation efficiency of organic nitrogen pollutants and altered the microbial community composition and structure. Electroactive bacteria were enriched in the electrode biofilm, while functional degraders were enriched in the planktonic sludge. Electrostimulation also strengthened the synergistic microbial associations between sludge and biofilm members, and deterministic assembly became more important. This study enhances our understanding of the manipulation of sludge microbiomes in engineered wastewater treatment systems.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Zheng Zhang, Jiang Li, Hongjun Li, Linlin Wang, Yuqi Zhou, Shuzhen Li, Zhaojing Zhang, Kai Feng, Ye Deng
Summary: In this study, the biogeographic patterns of microeukaryotic plankton diversity, community structure, and co-occurrence patterns were investigated using environmental DNA methods. The results showed a unimodal pattern of planktonic alpha diversity with latitude, and nutrient-related factors were found to be the main drivers of spatial patterns. Additionally, significant regional biogeographic patterns and potential drivers for planktonic communities were identified, with inorganic nitrogen and heavy metals having the greatest impact. Furthermore, the study revealed that anthropogenic activity factors strongly influenced the networked topology and structure of the planktonic community.
Article
Microbiology
Yi Sun, Hongjun Li, Xiaocheng Wang, Hongbo Li, Ye Deng
Summary: Seaweed cultivation, as an important carbon sink, plays a vital role in controlling global climate change. However, limited studies have focused on the dynamics of bacterioplankton in seaweed cultivation activities.
Article
Agronomy
Huilin Yan, Xueli Zhou, Kaifu Zheng, Songsong Gu, Hao Yu, Kun Ma, Yangan Zhao, Yingcheng Wang, Hua Zheng, Hanjiang Liu, Dejun Shi, Guangxin Lu, Ye Deng
Summary: The application of organic fertilizer has been found to change the microbial community and increase forage biomass in monoculture, but its effects on grass-legume mixtures remain unclear.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Yao Guo, Songsong Gu, Kaixuan Wu, Andrew J. Tanentzap, Junqi Yu, Xiangfen Liu, Qianzheng Li, Peng He, Dongru Qiu, Ye Deng, Pei Wang, Zhenbin Wu, Qiaohong Zhou
Summary: Microbes in aquatic environments play a critical role in carbon cycling, but our understanding of how they respond to temperature changes across large regions is limited. In this study, we investigated 47 lakes from different regions in China and found that warmer lakes had lower carbon concentrations and higher carbon utilization compared to colder lakes. The changes in bacterial community composition and core species affected the carbon utilization, suggesting that temperature mediates aquatic carbon cycling by altering the interactions between bacteria and carbon substrates.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Luyao Kang, Leiyi Chen, Ziliang Li, Jianjun Wang, Kai Xue, Ye Deng, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Yutong Song, Dianye Zhang, Guibiao Yang, Wei Zhou, Xuning Liu, Futing Liu, Yuanhe Yang
Summary: The formation of thermokarst lakes can release a significant amount of carbon and impact the climate. Prokaryotes play a crucial role in regulating biogeochemical cycles in thermokarst lakes, but their large-scale patterns and drivers are not well understood.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yuxiang Zhao, Zishu Liu, Baofeng Zhang, Jingjie Cai, Xiangwu Yao, Meng Zhang, Ye Deng, Baolan Hu
Summary: Research shows that high temperature can promote mutualism and reduce competition among microbial communities. Genomic analysis and culturing experiments in a composting system with temperature variation (20°C-70°C) reveal that temperature selects for stress-tolerant strains (Thermobifida fusca and Saccharomonospora viridis), and mutualistic interactions emerge between them and other strains through the sharing of cobalamin.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chunge Li, Ye Deng, Jingguo Wang, Weibin Ruan, Shang Wang, Weidong Kong
Summary: Soil phenolic acids, derived from crop residue and root exudates, can impact crop growth and soil microbial community. The study investigated the effects of p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (HPA) and p-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA) on soil microbial community in soybean and corn fields. HPA/HBA amendment significantly influenced soil bacterial and fungal community structures. HPA enriched bacteria like Gemmatimonas, Bacillus, and Acidobacteria, while HBA enriched fungi like Penicillium and Aspergillus. This research enhances understanding of the barriers to agricultural production caused by monoculture.
