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Arsenic modulates the composition of anode-respiring bacterial community during dry-wet cycles in paddy soils

  • Soils, Sec 2 • Global Change, Environ Risk Assess, Sustainable Land Use • Research Article
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Abstract

Purpose

Bacteria able to extracelluar respiration, which could be enriched in the anode of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), play important roles in dissimilatory iron reduction and arsenic (As) desorption in paddy soils. However, the response of the bacteria to As pollution is unknown.

Materials and methods

Using soil MFCs to investigate the effects of As on anode respiring bacteria (ARB) communities in paddy soils exposed to As stress. The soil MFC performances were evaluated by electrochemical methods. The bacterial community compositions on anodes were studied using Illumina sequencing.

Results and discussion

In wet 1 phase, polarization curves of MFCs showed cathode potentials were enhanced at low As exposure but inhibited at high As exposure. In the meantime, anode potentials increased with As levels. The dry-wet alternation reduced As levels in porewater and their impacts on electrodes microorganisms. Arsenic addition significantly influenced the anode microbial communities. After dry-wet cycles, Deltaproteobacteria dominated in the anode with high As.

Conclusions

The dynamic changes of the communities on cathodes and anodes of soil MFCs in paddy soils with different As addition might be explained by their different mechanisms for As detoxification. These results provide new insights into the microbial evolution in As-contaminated paddy soils.

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The work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41430858 and 41571305) and the Natural Science Fund for Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu Province (15KJB610014).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18, Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China

    Ya-Jie Wang, Guo-Xin Sun, Long-Jun Ding & Yong-Guan Zhu

  2. Department of Environmental Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Ren’ai Road, No.111, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Zheng Chen

  3. State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Pan-Pan Liu

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Wang, YJ., Chen, Z., Liu, PP. et al. Arsenic modulates the composition of anode-respiring bacterial community during dry-wet cycles in paddy soils. J Soils Sediments 16, 1745–1753 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1369-6

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