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The microbial community in the soil was analyzed during four weeks of a continuous enrichment of structural chernozem soil samples with a 0.1% solution of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) under aerobic and semianaerobic conditions. During the first 14 d, the total amount of the aerobic and anaerobic, cellulose-degrading microorganisms increased significantly. Various metabolic pathways were u‘ed te decompose the substrate: diverse metabolic systems were activated and different groups of microorganisms preferred in dependence on the presence of oxygen or the source of mineral nitrogen. In the later phases of cultivation, a decrease in the concentration of zymogenous microflora and in the level of substrate mineralization was observed ovon though CM-cellulase activity remained high. During the fourth week of cultivation, a conspicuous increase in the numbers of oligothropic bacteria occurring in the colcnies of the microorganisms degrading cellulose was found. The representatives of prosthecobacteria (Caulobacter, Hyphomicrobium, Prosthecomicrobium spp.) andSeliberia sp. were thus identified. This “microflora of dispersion” attends the zymogenous microbes degrading CMC and indicates later phases of the process of decomposition.
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Mašková, H.P., Vasilyeva, L.V., Kofroňova, O. et al. Microflora participating in the decomposition of carboxymethyl cellulose continuously added to the soil. Folia Microbiol 33, 482–490 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02925775
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