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The removal characteristics and diversity of a microbial community capable of ammonia removal from compost

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In order to reduce the pollution and nitrogen loss resulting from ammonia emission during the composting process, a genetically stable microbial community, CC-E, capable of ammonia removal was enriched from cow feces using restrictive culture. The microbial diversity of CC-E was also investigated by 16S rRNA gene clone technology. Moreover, the effect of CC-E on composting inoculation was investigated by detecting the amount of ammonia produced. The results showed that the amount of ammonia produced from the treatments with the microbial community CC-E was 63 % lower (151.11 mg/kg) relative to the control (447.87 mg/kg) over the course of the 20-day culture period. The bacterial groups represented in the CC-E clone library were the gammaproteobacteria (16.7 %), betaproteobacteria (54.4 %), alphaproteobacteria (21.1 %), and uncultured compost bacterium (7.8 %). Furthermore, Sphingomonas sp., Serratia sp. and Alcaligenes sp. were isolated from the microbial community CC-E with ammonia removal capacity. It was found that ammonia emission was reduced to 60.7 % following CC-E inoculation during the first 20 days of composting. Nitrogen conservation was also influenced by inoculation. Results indicate that microbial community CC-E can be a useful resource for biological deodorization.

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This work was supported by the Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the 12th Five–Year Plan Period (2012BAD12B05), NSFC (31270536), Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Heilongjiang Province (LBH–QO8O27), Key Science and Technology Program of Heilongjiang Province (GC12B306) and the Program of Science and Technology Innovation Team in Heilongjiang (2012 TD 006).

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Chen, W., Yan, L., Gao, Y. et al. The removal characteristics and diversity of a microbial community capable of ammonia removal from compost. Ann Microbiol 66, 635–642 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-015-1141-y

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