Activity and functional diversity of microbial communities in long-term hydrocarbon and heavy metal contaminated soils

Markowicz, Anna; Płaza, Grażyna; Piotrowska‐Seget, Zofia

doi:10.1515/aep-2016-0041

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“…The link between species abundance and community structure in polluted sites has been addressed using many diverse methods. Recently, techniques are based on massive DNA or RNA analysis of diversity (Kirker et al 2017;Bourceret et al 2016;Markowicz et al 2016).…”

Section: Methods To Evaluate the Effects Of Metals On Fungal Aerobic mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Roles of saprotrophic fungi in biodegradation or transformation of organic and inorganic pollutants in co-contaminated sites

Ceci

Pinzari

Russo

et al. 2018

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

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For decades human activities, industrialization and agriculture have contaminated soils and water with several compounds, including potentially toxic metals and organic persistent xenobiotics. The co-occurrence of those toxicants poses challenging environmental problems, as complicated chemical interactions and synergies can arise and lead to severe and toxic effects on organisms. The use of fungi, alone or with bacteria, for bioremediation purposes is a growing biotechnology with high potential in terms of cost-effectiveness, an environmentalfriendly perspective and feasibility, and often representing a sustainable nature-based solution. This paper reviews different ecological, metabolic and physiological aspects involved in fungal bioremediation of co-contaminated soils and water systems, not only addressing best methods and approaches to assess the simultaneous presence of metals and organic toxic compounds and their consequences on provided ecosystem services, but also the interactions between fungi and bacteria, in order to suggest further study directions in this field.

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Section: Methods To Evaluate the Effects Of Metals On Fungal Aerobic mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most studies report on a negative effect of metals in affecting the biodegradation of organics in co-contaminated environments (Bhattacharya et al 2014;Markowicz et al 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Roles of saprotrophic fungi in biodegradation or transformation of organic and inorganic pollutants in co-contaminated sites

Ceci

Pinzari

Russo

et al. 2018

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

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“…Diesel fuel concentration in the extracted samples was expressed as total petroleum hydrocarbons in soil, TPH, as mg fuel kg soil -1 (Markowicz et al 2016). Quantitative conversion of GC area counts data to TPH was performed by preparing standards of refi ned diesel fuel and establishing the relationship between the mass of diesel fuel injected and the area count response.…”

Section: Diesel Fuel Concentration Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of atmospheric conditions on the migration of diesel fuel spilled in soil

Vuruna¹,

Veličković²,

Perić³

et al. 2017

Archives of Environmental Protection

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Abstract:The most common chemical's spills in typical transportation accidents are those with petroleum products such as diesel fuel, the consequence of which is an extensive pollution of the soil. In order to plan properly fuel recovery from the soil, it is important to gain information about the soil depth which may be affected by pollutant and to predict the pollutant concentration in different soil layers. This study deals with the impact of basic atmospheric conditions, i.e. air temperature and humidity on the diesel fuel migration through the soil. The diesel fuel was spilled into columns (L = 30 cm; D = 4.6 cm) fi lled with sandy and clay soil samples, and its concentrations at various depths were measured after 11 days under various air temperature (20 and 40°C) and relative humidity (30-100%) conditions. The effects observed were explained by understanding physical processes, such as fuel evaporation, diffusion and adsorption on soil grains. The increase in temperature results in higher fuel evaporation loss and its faster vertical migration. The relative humidity effect is less pronounced but more complex, and it depends much on the soil type.

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“…Research has shown that in the short to medium term, contamination of environmental media with heavy metals results in reduced microbial biomass, coupled with reduced enzyme activity (Wang et al ., ; Akmal, ). In the long term, environmental media contaminated with PAHs showed reduced microbial biodiversity and species richness index (Markowicz et al ., ). However, the same study by Markowicz et al .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, the same study by Markowicz et al . () showed that while soils contaminated with heavy metals had reduced microbial activity and changes in microbial community structure, a high microbial evenness index was observed. This suggests that some populations of the microbial community are ‘enriched’ by the presence of the very same pollutants which diminish the population sizes of the less tolerant microorganisms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Synthetic extreme environments: overlooked sources of potential biotechnologically relevant microorganisms

Sibanda

Selvarajan

Tekere

2017

Microbial Biotechnology

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SummarySynthetic extreme environments like carwash effluent tanks and drains are potential sources of biotechnologically important microorganisms and molecules which have, however, remained unexplored. Using culture‐ and molecular‐based methods, a total of 17 bacterial isolates belonging to the genera Shewanella, Proteus, Paenibacillus, Enterobacter and Citrobacter, Aeromonas, Pseudomonas and Pantoea were identified. Hydrocarbon utilization and enzyme production screening assays showed that Aeromonas sp. CAC11, Paenibacillus sp. CAC12 and Paenibacillus sp. CAC13 and Citrobacter sp. PCW7 were able to degrade benzanthracene, naphthalene and diesel oil, Paenibacillus sp. CAC12 and Paenibacillus sp. CAC13 could produce cellulase enzyme, while Proteus sp. BPS2, Pseudomonas sp. SAS8 and Proteus sp. CAL3 could produce lipase. GC‐MS analysis of bacterial secondary metabolites resulted in identification of 107 different compounds produced by Proteus sp. BPS2, Paenibacillus sp. CAC12, Pseudomonas sp. SAS8, Proteus sp. CAL3 and Paenibacillus sp. CAC13. Most of the compounds identified by both GC‐MS and LC‐MS have previously been determined to have antibacterial, antifungal and/or anticancer properties. Further, microbial metabolites which have previously been known to be produced only by plants or microorganisms found in natural extreme environments were also identified in this study. This research has revealed the immense bioresource potential of microorganisms inhabiting synthetic extreme environments.

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Activity and functional diversity of microbial communities in long-term hydrocarbon and heavy metal contaminated soils

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Roles of saprotrophic fungi in biodegradation or transformation of organic and inorganic pollutants in co-contaminated sites

Roles of saprotrophic fungi in biodegradation or transformation of organic and inorganic pollutants in co-contaminated sites

The influence of atmospheric conditions on the migration of diesel fuel spilled in soil

Synthetic extreme environments: overlooked sources of potential biotechnologically relevant microorganisms

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