He also showed that a healthy soil microbial community containing various beneficial microbes could help plants defend against infectious diseases and agricultural pests.
Due to the highly enhanced mineralization conducted by the microbial community containing the degrading strain Microbacterium sp. C448, we strongly recommend the utilization of the appropriate microbial community instead of an isolated degrading strain when developing soil remediation methods.
Based on methane and oxygen distributions measured at 207 stations throughout the affected region, we find that within ~120 days from the onset of release ~3.0 × 1010 to 3.9 × 1010 moles of oxygen were respired, primarily by methanotrophs, and left behind a residual microbial community containing methanotrophic bacteria.
In cases in which the targeted microbial community contains only a small fraction of Eukaryota, these primers might be a good choice for the community profiling.
The midgut lumen of A. glabripennis is host to a diverse microbial community containing over 300 bacterial and at least 18 fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) [ 20].
In the present study, sequencing batch reactors (SBR) mimicking secondary wastewater treatment were operated to determine the effects of AgNPs on the microbial communities contained within activated sludge of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP).
These complex attached microbial communities contained three genera of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (Nitrosomonas, Nitrosospira and Nitrosococcus) and two genera of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (Nitrososphaera and Nitrosopumilus), of which the genus Nitrosomonas was the dominant in each sample, similar to a study from 10 wastewater treatment systems by Gao et al. (2014).
Microbial communities contain a relatively small number of distinct taxa, as discussed previously.[37, 38] Cultivation-independent surveys of microbial communities revealed a few newly recognized lines of descent.
Together, these advances have made it possible for investigators to study the composition and functions of microbial communities containing thousands of species sampled directly from their natural habitats, without the need to culture the organisms, or even to distinguish one species from another.
Furthermore, this approach can be applied to microbial communities containing both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
