Publication: Phylogenetic Analysis and Metabolic Potential of Microbial Communities in an Industrial Bagasse Collection Site
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2013-08-01
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00953628
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Microbial Ecology. Vol.66, No.2 (2013), 322-334
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Pattanop Kanokratana, Wuttichai Mhuantong, Thanaporn Laothanachareon, Sithichoke Tangphatsornruang, Lily Eurwilaichitr, Kusol Pootanakit, Verawat Champreda Phylogenetic Analysis and Metabolic Potential of Microbial Communities in an Industrial Bagasse Collection Site. Microbial Ecology. Vol.66, No.2 (2013), 322-334. doi:10.1007/s00248-013-0209-0 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/30996
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Phylogenetic Analysis and Metabolic Potential of Microbial Communities in an Industrial Bagasse Collection Site
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Industrial bagasse collection sites at sugar mills are an important resource for biomass-based industries and represent a unique ecological niche in lignocellulose degradation. In this study, microbial community structures at regions with varying microenvironmental conditions contained within a bagasse collection site were explored using tagged 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing. Overall, remarkable differences in microbial community structures were found in aerobic surface and oxygen-limited interior regions of the pile. A variety of Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria represented the majority of bacteria in the aerobic upper-pile regions with the predominance of acetic acid bacteria towards the outer surface. Diverse Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Acidobacteria represented the predominant phyla at the exterior soil-contact pile base with an increasing abundance of anaerobic Spirochaetes with the increasing depth, where it shared similar community structures to that in the open-field soil from decomposed bagasse. Using complementary shotgun pyrosequencing, a variety of genes encoding various glycosyl hydrolases targeting cellulose and hemicellulose degradation were identified in the oxygen-limited interior pile base. Most were relevant to orders Clostridiales, Bacteroidales, Sphingobacteriales, and Cytophagales, suggesting their role in lignocellulose degradation in this region, as evidenced by the decrease in cellulose and respective increase in lignin fractions of the biomass. Partial carbon flux in the anoxic region was metabolized through mixed methanogenesis pathways as suggested by the annotated functional genes in methane synthesis. This study gives insights into native microbial community structures and functions in this unique lignocellulose degrading environment and provides the basis for controlling microbial processes important for utilization of bagasse in bio-industries. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.